Evaluation of differents protocols of DNA extraction for Brucella abortus detection from aborted featus materials or from calves born from experimentally infected cows with 2308 strain / Avaliação de diferentes protocolos de extração de DNA para detecção de Brucella abortus a partir de materiais colhidos de feto abortado ou bezerros nascidos de vacas experimentalmente infectadas com a cepa 2308

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DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

2008

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Infection by Brucella abortus diminishes the reproductive efficiency in bovines and it is also the agent of one of the most spread zoonosis in the world. In many countries control programs aim this disease, and in Brazil its combat was better organized since 2001 with the creation of the national program by the Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock and Supplies (MAPA). The objective of the present study was to improve the detection of B. abortus in aborted fetus homogenates from infected cows. For that reason, different DNA extraction protocols were compared, focusing the PCR detection of B. abortus in clinical samples collected from aborted fetus or calves obtained from cows experimentally defied with the 2308 B. abortus strain. Therefore, two gold standard groups were built based on classical bacteriology, formed by: 32 lungs (17 isolation positives samples), 26 spleens (11 isolation positives samples), 23 livers (8 isolation positives samples) and 22 bronchial lymph nodes (7 isolation positives samples). All samples were submitted to three distinct DNA extraction protocols, followed by the same amplification process with the primers B4 and B5. The analysis of the consolidated results showed a 95% sensibility for the proteinase K protocol (PK), 86 % for the guanidine isotiocianate (GT) and 88% for the Boom. The sensibility values obtained for lungs, spleen, liver and lymph node were, respectively, 100%, 100%, 100% and 71% (PK), 82%, 100%, 88% and 71% (GT) and 94%, 100%, 63% and 86% (Boom). In the group of animals in which it was not possible to isolate brucellas (negative gold standard), the PCR resulted positively in 8 samples for the PK extraction protocol (4 lungs, 1 liver and 3 lymph nodes), in 6 samples for the GT extraction protocol (1 lung, 3 livers and 2 lymph nodes) and in 37 samples for the Boom extraction protocol (10 lungs, 10 spleens, 10 livers and 7 lymph nodes). These results permit affirming that the PK extraction protocol showed the best diagnostic sensibility and that the Boom extraction protocol showed the best performance in negative isolation samples. Within the studied organs, the spleen showed the highest probability of B. abortus detection. Therefore, the best strategy for B. abortus detection in organs homogenates from aborted fetus is the utilization of isolation and in parallel, the PCR.

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bovinos brucella abortus reação em cadeia pela polimerase brucellosis polymerase chain reaction brucella abortus bovine brucelose

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