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J Clin Microbiol. 1990 November; 28(11): 2477-2481

Detection of the aerolysin gene in Aeromonas hydrophila by the polymerase chain reaction.

National Laboratory for Special Pathogens, Tunney's Pasture, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.

ABSTRACT

Synthetic oligonucleotide primers were used in a polymerase chain reaction (PCR) technique to detect the gene for aerolysin in strains of Aeromonas hydrophila and to screen for identical genes in A. caviae, A. sobria, and A. veronii isolated from patients with diarrheal disease. Primers targeted a 209-bp fragment of the aer gene coding for the beta-hemolysin and detected template DNA only in the PCR using nucleic acid (NA) from hemolytic strains of A. hydrophila which were also cytotoxic to Vero and CHO cells and enterotoxic in suckling-mouse assays. PCR amplification of NA from hemolytic A. sobria or nonhemolytic A. hydrophila and A. caviae strains was consistently negative. Primer specificity was determined in the PCR by using NA extracted from 56 strains of bacteria, including hemolytic Escherichia coli and Listeria monocytogenes as well as several recognized enteric pathogens defined in terms of their toxigenicity. The detection limit for the aerolysin gene by PCR amplification was 1 ng of total NA. The PCR clearly identified aerolysin-producing strains of A. hydrophila and may have application as a species-specific virulence test because other hemolytic Aeromonas species tested were negative.

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