Traditional serologic assays of Actinobacillus pleuropeumoniae often have problems with cross-reactivity. To avoid the complications of antibody-antigen reactions, a PCR assay was developed to detect Actinobacillus pleuropneumoniae and identify serotype 5 strains. Primers specific to the conserved capsular export region of A. pleuropneumoniae amplified a 0.7 kb DNA band in all strains with the exception of serotype 4. A second set of primers specific to the unique capsular biosynthesis region of serotype 5 amplified a unique 1.1 kb band for serotype 5 only. The sensitivity of this assay was determined to be less than 100 colony forming units. This PCR assay enables us to detect A. pleuronpeumoniae and definitively distinguishes serotype 5 strains from other serotyes. / Master of Science
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:VTETD/oai:vtechworks.lib.vt.edu:10919/36902 |
| Date | 25 August 1997 |
| Creators | Lo, Terry |
| Contributors | Veterinary Medical Sciences, Inzana, Thomas J., Wong, Eric A., Sriranganathan, Nammalwar |
| Publisher | Virginia Tech |
| Source Sets | Virginia Tech Theses and Dissertation |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Thesis |
| Format | application/pdf, application/pdf |
| Rights | In Copyright, http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ |
| Relation | At.pdf, vita.pdf |
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