Specific Differentiation between Mycobacterium bovis BCG and Virulent Strains of the Mycobacterium tuberculosis Complex
AUTOR(ES)
Magdalena, Juana
FONTE
American Society for Microbiology
RESUMO
A PCR procedure based on the intergenic region (IR) separating two genes encoding a recently identified mycobacterial two-component system, named SenX3-RegX3, was developed and was shown to be suitable for identifying Mycobacterium bovis BCG. The senX3-regX3 IR contains a novel type of repetitive sequence, called mycobacterial interspersed repetitive units (MIRUs). All tested BCG strains exclusively contained 77-bp MIRUs within the senX3-regX3 IR, whereas all non-BCG M. tuberculosis complex strains contained a 53-bp MIRU, in addition to the 77-bp MIRUs. All 148 strains analyzed so far could be divided into eight different groups according to the copy numbers of the 77-bp MIRU and to the presence or absence of the 53-bp MIRU. BCG strains contained either one, two, or three 77-bp MIRUs. The other strains contained one to five 77-bp MIRUs invariably followed by a 53-bp MIRU. The consistent absence of the 53-bp MIRU in BCG strains and its presence in virulent strains allowed us to develop an enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay using specific capture oligonucleotide probes to distinguish between BCG and other M. tuberculosis complex strains.
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