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Journal of Clinical Microbiology, April 2006, p. 1241-1244, Vol. 44, No. 4
0095-1137/06/$08.00+0     doi:10.1128/JCM.44.4.1241-1244.2006
Copyright © 2006, American Society for Microbiology. All Rights Reserved.

Development of Conventional and Real-Time Nucleic Acid Sequence-Based Amplification Assays for Detection of Chlamydophila pneumoniae in Respiratory Specimens

K. Loens,1* T. Beck,1 H. Goossens,1 D. Ursi,1 M. Overdijk,2 P. Sillekens,2 and M. Ieven1

Department of Microbiology, University of Antwerp UIA, Antwerp, Belgium,1 bioMérieux, Boxtel, The Netherlands2

Received 26 July 2005/ Returned for modification 1 September 2005/ Accepted 18 January 2006

Isothermal nucleic acid sequence-based amplification (NASBA) was applied to the detection of Chlamydophila pneumoniae 16S rRNA by using the NucliSens basic kit (bioMérieux, Boxtel, The Netherlands). The assay was originally developed as a conventional NASBA assay with electrochemiluminescence detection and was subsequently adapted to a real-time NASBA format by using a molecular beacon. C. pneumoniae RNA prepared from a plasmid construct was used to assess the analytical sensitivity of the assay. The sensitivity of the NASBA assay was 10 molecules of in vitro wild-type C. pneumoniae RNA and 0.1 inclusion-forming unit (IFU) of C. pneumoniae. In spiked respiratory specimens, the sensitivity of the C. pneumoniae NASBA assay varied between 0.1 and 1 IFU/100 µl sample, depending on the type of specimen. Finally, conventional and real-time NASBA were applied to respiratory specimens previously tested by PCR. A 100% concordance between the test results was obtained.

* Corresponding author. Mailing address: Department of Medical Microbiology, University of Antwerp, Universiteitsplein 1 S3, B-2610 Wilrijk, Belgium. Phone: 32-3-820-25-51. Fax: 32-3-820-26-63. E-mail: katherine.loens{at}ua.ac.be.

Journal of Clinical Microbiology, April 2006, p. 1241-1244, Vol. 44, No. 4
0095-1137/06/$08.00+0     doi:10.1128/JCM.44.4.1241-1244.2006
Copyright © 2006, American Society for Microbiology. All Rights Reserved.



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