A combined polymerase chain reaction and restriction endonuclease enzyme assay for discriminating between Campylobacter coli and Campylobacter jejuni

FEMS Immunology and Medical Microbiology

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 45-49

  Comi, Giuseppe ^a   Pipan, Corrado ^b   Botta, Giuseppe ^b   Cocolin, Luca ^a   Cantoni, Carlo ^c   Manzano, Marisa ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UDINE   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF UDINE   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

Author keywords

Campylobacter coli; Campylobacter jejuni; polymerase chain reaction; restriction endonuclease enzyme

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM DETECTION; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; CAMPYLOBACTER JEJUNI; CONTROLLED STUDY; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM;

CAMPYLOBACTER COLI; CAMPYLOBACTER JEJUNI; DNA, BACTERIAL; FLAGELLIN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POLYMORPHISM, RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 0030297354     PISSN: 09288244     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0928-8244(96)00077-6     Document Type: Article

References (20)

1. [1] Penner, J.L. (1988) The genus Campylobacter. J. Clin. Microbiol. 28, 1565-1569.
2. [2] Scotter, S.L., Humprey, T.J. and Henley, A. (1993) Methods for the detection of thermotolerant campylobacters in foods: results of an inter-laboratory study. J. Appl. Bacteriol. 74, 155-163.
3. [3] Nachamkin, I., Bohanchick, K. and Patton, C.M. (1993) Flagellin gene typing of Campylobacter jejuni by restriction fragment length polymorphism analysis. J. Clin. Microbiol. 31, 1531-1536.
4. [4] Stern, N.J. (1992) Reservoirs for Campylobacter jejuni and approaches for intervention in poultry. In: Campylobacter jejuni: Current Status and Future Trends (Nachamkin, I., Blaser, M.J. and Tompkins, L.S., Eds.), pp. 49-60. American Society for Microbiology, Washington, DC.
5. [5] Tauxe, R.V. (1992) Epidemiology of Campylobacter jejuni infections in the United States and other industrialized nations In: Campylobacter jejuni: Current Status and Future Trends (Nachamkin, I., Blaser, M.J. and Tompkins, L.S., Eds.), pp. 9-19. American Society for Microbiology, Washington, DC.
6. [6] Johnson, W.M. and Lior, H. (1986) Cytotoxic and Cytotonic factors produced by Campylobacter jejuni, Campylobacter coli and Campylobacter laridis. J. Clin. Microbiol. 24, 275-281.
7. [7] Nachamkin, I., Yang, X.E. and Stern, N.J. (1993) Role of Campylobacter jejuni flagella as colonization factors for three-day-old chicks: Analysis with flagellar mutants. Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 59, 1269-1273.
8. [8] Wong, P.Y., Puthcheary, S.D. and Pang, T. (1985) Demonstration of a cytotoxin from Campylobacter jejuni. J. Clin. Pathol. 36, 1237-1240.
9. [9] Comi, G., Ferroni, P., Cocolin, L., Cantoni, C. and Manzano, M. (1995) Detection and identification of Campylobacter coli and Campylobacter jejuni by two step polymerase chain reaction. Mol. Biotechnol. 3, 266-268.
10. [10] Kirk, R. and Rowe, M.T. (1994) A PCR assay for the detection of Campylobacter jejuni and Campylobacter coli in water. Lett. Appl. Microbiol. 19, 301-303.
11. [11] Oyofo, B.A. and Rollins, D.M. (1993) Efficacy of filter types for detecting Campylobacter jejuni and Campylobacter coli in environmental water samples by the polymerase chain reaction. Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 59, 4090-4095.
12. [12] Romaniuk, P.J. and Trust, T.J. (1989) Rapid identification of Campylobacter species using oligonucleotide probes to 16S ribosomial RNA. Cell Probes 3, 133-142.
13. [13] Oyofo, B.A., Thornton, S.A., Burr, D.H., Trust, T.J., Pavlovskis, O.R. and Guerry, P. (1992) Specific detention of Campylobacter jejuni and Campylobacter coli using polymerase chain reaction. J. Clin. Microbiol. 30, 2613-2619.
14. [14] Thornton, S.A., Logan, S.M., Trust, T.J. and Guerry, P. (1990) Polynucleotide sequence relationships among flagellin genes of Campylobacter jejuni and Campylobacter coli. Infect. Immun. 58, 2686-2689.
15. [15] Manzano, M., Pipan, C., Botta, G. and Comi, G. (1995) Polymerase chain reaction assay for detection of Campylobacter coli and Campylobacter jejuni in poultry meat. Zbl. Hyg. 197, 370-386.
16. [16] Korolik, V., Moorthy, L. and Coloe, P. (1995) Differentiation of Campylobacter jejuni and Campylobacter coli strains by using restriction endonuclease DNA profiles and DNA fragment polymorphisms. J. Clin. Microbiol. 33, 1136-1140.
17. [17] Giesendorf, B.A., van Belkum, A., Koeken, A., Stegeman, H., Henkens, M.H.C., van der Plas, P., Goossens, H. and Quint, W.G.V. (1993) Development of species-specific DNA probes for Campylobacter jejuni, Campylobacter coli and Campylobacter laridis by polymerase chain reaction fingerprinting. J. Clin. Microbiol. 31, 1541-1546.
18. [18] Giesendorf, B.A., Quint, W.G.V., Henkens, M.H.C., Stegeman, H., Huf, F.A. and Niesters, H.G.M. (1992) Rapid and sensitive detection of Campylobacter spp. in chicken products by using the polymerase chain reaction. Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 58, 3804-3808.
19. [19] Wegmuller, B., Luthy, J. and Candrian, U. (1993) Direct polymerase chain reaction detection of Campylobacter jejuni and Campylobacter coli in raw milk and dairy products. Appl. Environ, Microbiol. 59, 2161-2165.
20. [20] Wernars, K., Delfogou, E., Soentoro, P.S. and Notermans, S. (1991) Successful approach for the detection of low numbers of enterotoxigenic Excherichia coli in minced meat by using the polymerase chain reaction. Appl. Environ, Microbiol. 57, 1793-1798.