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Journal of Clinical Microbiology, September 2000, p. 3156-3160, Vol. 38, No. 9
0095-1137/00/$04.00+0

Improved Identification and Differentiation of Varicella-Zoster Virus (VZV) Wild-Type Strains and an Attenuated Varicella Vaccine Strain Using a VZV Open Reading Frame 62-Based PCR

Vladimir N. Loparev, Takele Argaw, Philip R. Krause, Michiko Takayama, and D. Scott Schmid*

Division of Viral and Rickettsial Diseases, National Center for Infectious Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Atlanta, Georgia 30333

Received 18 February 2000/Returned for modification 31 March 2000/Accepted 12 June 2000

A new method was developed to identify and differentiate varicella-zoster virus (VZV) wild-type strains from the attenuated varicella Oka vaccine strain. The PCR technique was used to amplify a VZV open reading frame (ORF) 62 region. A single specific amplicon of 268 bp was obtained from 71 VZV clinical isolates and several laboratory strains. Subsequent digestion of the VZV ORF 62 amplicons with SmaI enabled accurate strain differentiation (three SmaI sites were present in amplicons of vaccine strain VZV, compared with two enzyme cleavage sites for all other VZV strains tested). This method accurately differentiated the Oka vaccine strain from wild-type VZV strains circulating in countries representing all six populated continents. Moreover, the assay more reliably distinguished wild-type Japanese strains from the vaccine strain than did previously described methods.

* Corresponding author. Mailing address: Division of Viral and Rickettsial Diseases, National Center for Infectious Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Atlanta, GA 30333. Phone: (404) 639-4040 or (404) 639-0066. Fax: (404) 639-4056. E-mail: vnl0{at}cdc.gov.

Journal of Clinical Microbiology, September 2000, p. 3156-3160, Vol. 38, No. 9
0095-1137/00/$04.00+0


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