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Journal of Clinical Microbiology, 12 1997, 3021-3025, Vol 35, No. 12
Copyright © 1997 by the American Society for Microbiology. All rights reserved.

Differentiation of Helicobacter pylori strains directly from gastric biopsy specimens by PCR-based restriction fragment length polymorphism analysis without culture [In Process Citation]

C Li, T Ha, DS Chi, DA Ferguson Jr, C Jiang, JJ Laffan and E Thomas
Department of Internal Medicine, Quillen College of Medicine, East Tennessee State University, and VA Medical Center, Johnson City 37684, USA.

Recent studies have shown the usefulness of PCR-based restriction fragment length polymorphism (RFLP) analysis for differentiating Helicobacter pylori strains isolated by culture. For this study, a PCR- based RFLP assay was developed for directly typing H. pylori strains from gastric biopsy specimens. Nineteen gastric biopsy specimens obtained from patients undergoing endoscopy for gastrointestinal complaints were cultured for isolation of H. pylori. Genomic DNA preparations from these gastric biopsy specimens and the corresponding H. pylori isolates were tested by our PCR-based RFLP assay. The 1,179- bp H. pylori DNA fragments amplified by the PCR assay were digested with the restriction enzymes HhaI, MboI, and AluI and analyzed by agarose gel electrophoresis. HhaI, MboI, and AluI digestion produced 11, 10, and 6 distinguishable digestion patterns, respectively, from the 19 H. pylori isolates tested and generated 13, 11, and 6 different patterns, respectively, from the 19 gastric biopsy specimens. The patterns from 13 of the 19 gastric biopsy specimens matched those of the H. pylori isolates from the corresponding patients. The patterns from the remaining six biopsy specimens appeared to represent infection by two strains of H. pylori; the pattern of one strain was identical to that of the isolate from the corresponding patient. By combining all the restriction enzyme digestion patterns obtained by using HhaI, MboI, and AluI, we observed 19 distinct RFLP patterns from the 19 specimens. The results suggest that the PCR-based RFLP analysis method may be useful as a primary technique to identify and distinguish H. pylori strains directly from gastric biopsy specimens without culture of the organisms.

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