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Journal of Clinical Microbiology, November 2004, p. 5205-5213, Vol. 42, No. 11
0095-1137/04/$08.00+0     DOI: 10.1128/JCM.42.11.5205-5213.2004
Copyright © 2004, American Society for Microbiology. All Rights Reserved.

Development of a PCR-Restriction Fragment Length Polymorphism Assay for the Epidemiological Analysis of Shiga Toxin-Producing Escherichia coli

Kensuke Shima,1 Jun Terajima,2 Toshio Sato,3 Kazuhiko Nishimura,1 Kazumichi Tamura,2 Haruo Watanabe,2 Yoshifumi Takeda,4 and Shinji Yamasaki1*

Graduate School of Agriculture and Biological Sciences, Osaka Prefecture University, Osaka,1 Department of Bacteriology, National Institute of Infectious Diseases,2 Research Institute, International Medical Center of Japan,3 Jissen Women's University, Tokyo, Japan4

Received 21 April 2004/ Returned for modification 6 July 2004/ Accepted 14 July 2004

Six characteristic regions (I to VI) were identified in Shiga toxin 2 (Stx2) phages (T. Sato, T. Shimizu, M. Watarai, M. Kobayashi, S. Kano, T. Hamabata, Y. Takeda, and S. Yamasaki, Gene 309:35-48, 2003). Region V, which is ca. 10 kb in size and is located in the upstream region of the Stx operons, includes the most distinctive region among six Stx phages whose genome sequences have been determined. In this study, we developed a PCR-restriction fragment length polymorphism (RFLP) assay for the epidemiological analysis of Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli (STEC) on the basis of the diversity of region V. When region V was amplified by long and accurate-PCR (LA-PCR) with five control E. coli strains carrying six different Stx phages such as E. coli strains C600 (Stx1 phage), C600 (933W phage), C600 (Stx2 phage-I), C600 (Stx2 phage-II), and O157:H7 Sakai strain RIMD0509952 (VT1-Sakai phage and VT2-Sakai phage), an expected size of the band was obtained. Restriction digest of each PCR product with BglI or EcoRV also gave the expected sizes of banding patterns and discriminated the RFLPs of five control strains. When a total of 204 STEC O157 strains were analyzed by LA-PCR, one to three bands whose sizes ranged from 8.2 to 14 kb were obtained. Two STEC O157 strains, however, did not produce any bands. Subsequent restriction digest of the PCR products with BglI or EcoRV differentiated the RFLPs of 202 STEC O157 strains into 24 groups. The RFLP patterns of pulsed-field gel electrophoresis (PFGE) of representative strains of STEC O157 divided into 24 groups were well correlated with those of PCR-RFLP when STEC O157 strains were isolated in the same time period and in the close geographic area. To evaluate the PCR-RFLP assay developed here, ten strains, each isolated from four different outbreaks in different areas in Japan (Tochigi, Hyogo, Aichi, and Fukuoka prefecture), were examined to determine whether the strains in each group showed the same RFLP patterns in the PCR-RFLP assay. In accordance with the results of PFGE except for strains isolated in an area (Fukuoka), which did not produce any amplicon, ten strains in each group demonstrated the same RFLP pattern. Taken together, these data suggest that the PCR-RFLP based on region V is as useful as PFGE but perhaps more simple and rapid than PFGE for the molecular epidemiological analysis of STEC strains during sporadic and common source outbreaks.

* Corresponding author. Mailing address: Mailing address: Graduate School of Agriculture and Biological Sciences, Osaka Prefecture University, 1-1, Gakuen-Cho, Sakai, Osaka 599-8531, Japan. Phone: 81-72-254-9515. Fax: 81-72-254-9515. E-mail: shinji{at}vet.osakafu-u.ac.jp.

Journal of Clinical Microbiology, November 2004, p. 5205-5213, Vol. 42, No. 11
0095-1137/04/$08.00+0     DOI: 10.1128/JCM.42.11.5205-5213.2004
Copyright © 2004, American Society for Microbiology. All Rights Reserved.



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