Affiliation:
1. Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region Center for Disease Prevention and Control, Huhhot 010030, China
2. National Institute for Communicable Disease Control and Prevention, Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Beijing 102206, China
Abstract
Ochrobactrum anthropi (O. anthropi) is found in water, soil, plants and animals. Even though it has low virulence, it has increasingly been found to cause a number of infectious diseases in people with low immunity. The identification of O. anthropi mainly uses biochemical methods, such as the API 20NE or Vitek-2. The typing studies of O. anthropi have mainly utilized PFGE, rep-PCR, AFLP, 16s rDNA sequencing, RecA-PCR RFLP, and MALDI-TOF MS. This study aims to evaluate the polymorphisms of variable-number tandem-repeats (VNTRs) within genomic DNA of O. anthropi strains. The tandem repeats (TRs) in genomic DNA are discovered using Tandem Repeat Finder software (version 4.09). Twelve different VNTRs are designated and assigned to the nomenclature. The primers for PCR of 12 loci are designed. The PCR product size is converted to the number of tandem repeats in every locus. The relatedness of 65 O. anthropi strains from geographically different countries are analyzed by means of 12-variable-number tandem-repeat analysis(MLVA-12). A total of 51 different genotypes are found in 65 O. anthropi strains. These strains, which were collected from the same environmental samples, hospitals, and countries, are clustered within the same or closely genotypes. The MLVA-12 assay has a good discriminatory power for species determination, typing of O. anthropi, and inferring the origin of bacteria.
Funder
Ministry of Science and Technology of the People’s Republic of China
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