New diagnostic real-time PCR for specific detection of Parachlamydia acanthamoebae DNA in clinical samples

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 46, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 1491-1493

  Casson, Nicola ^a   Posfay Barbe, Klara M ^b   Gervaix, Alain ^b   Greub, Gilbert ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

^b GENEVA UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA; BACTERIAL DNA;

ACANTHAMOEBA; ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; BRONCHIOLITIS; CHILD CARE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COCULTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFANT; MALE; MICROORGANISM DETECTION; NASOPHARYNGEAL ASPIRATION; NONHUMAN; PARACHLAMYDIA ACANTHAMOEBA; PATHOGENESIS; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; ANIMAL; CHLAMYDIACEAE; EVALUATION; GENETICS; GRAM NEGATIVE INFECTION; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METHODOLOGY; MICROBIOLOGY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

PARACHLAMYDIA; PARACHLAMYDIA ACANTHAMOEBAE;

ACANTHAMOEBA; ADOLESCENT; ANIMALS; BRONCHIOLITIS; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CHLAMYDIALES; DNA, BACTERIAL; FEMALE; GRAM-NEGATIVE BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 42449094177     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.02302-07     Document Type: Article

References (18)

1. Amann, R., N. Springer, W. Schonhuber, W. Ludwig, E. N. Schmid, K. D. Muller, and R. Michel. 1997. Obligate intracellular bacterial parasites of acanthamoebae related to Chlamydia spp. Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 63:115-121.
2. Birtles, R. J., T. J. Rowbotham, C. Storey, T. J. Marrie, and D. Raoult. 1997. Chlamydia-like obligate parasite of free-living amoebae. Lancet 349:925-926.
3. Casson, N., J. M. Entenza, N. Borel, A. Pospischil, and G. Greub. 2007. Murine model of pneumonia caused by Parachlamydia acanthamoebae. Proc. 5th Annu. Workshop COST Action 855 Animal Chlamydioses Zoonotic Implications, Pulawy, Poland.
4. Casson, N., N. Medico, J. Bille, and G. Greub. 2006. Parachlamydia acanthamoebae enters and multiplies within pneumocytes and lung fibroblasts. Microbes Infect. 8:1294-1300.
5. Casson, N., R. Michel, K. D. Muller, J. D. Aubert, and G. Greub. 2008. Protochlamydia naegleriophila as etiologic agent of pneumonia. Emerg. Infect. Dis. 14:168-172.
6. Corsaro, D., and G. Greub. 2006. Pathogenic potential of novel Chlamydiae and diagnostic approaches to infections due to these obligate intracellular bacteria. Clin. Microbiol. Rev. 19:283-297.
7. Corsaro, D., D. Venditti, A. Le Faou, P. Guglielmetti, and M. Valassina. 2001. A new Chlamydia-like 16S rDNA sequence from a clinical sample. Microbiology 147:515-516.
8. Everett, K. D., R. M. Bush, and A. A. Andersen. 1999. Emended description of the order Chlamydiales, proposal of Parachlamydiaceae fam. nov. and Simkaniaceae fam. nov., each containing one monotypic genus, revised taxonomy of the family Chlamydiaceae, including a new genus and five new species, and standards for the identification of organisms. Int. J. Syst. Bacteriol. 49:415-140.
9. Greenberg, D., A. Banerji, M. G. Friedman, C. H. Chiu, and S. Kahane. 2003. High rate of Simkania negevensis among Canadian Inuit infants hospitalized with lower respiratory tract infections. Scand. J. Infect. Dis. 35:506-508.
10. Greub, G., P. Berger, L. Papazian, and D. Raoult. 2003. Parachlamydiaceae as rare agents of pneumonia. Emerg. Infect. Dis. 9:755-756.
11. Greub, G., I. Boyadjiev, B. La Scola, D. Raoult, and C. Martin. 2003. Serological hint suggesting that Parachlamydiaceae are agents of pneumonia in polytraumatized intensive care patients. Ann. N. Y. Acad. Sci. 990:311- 319.
12. Greub, G., B. La Scola, and D. Raoult. 2004. Amoebae-resisting bacteria isolated from human nasal swabs by amoebal coculture. Emerg. Infect. Dis. 10:470-177.
13. Greub, G., J. L. Mege, J. P. Gorvel, D. Raoult, and S. Meresse. 2005. Intracellular trafficking of Parachlamydia acanthamoebae. Cell. Microbiol. 7:581-589.
14. Greub, G., J. L. Mege, and D. Raoult. 2003. Parachlamydia acanthamoebae enters and multiplies within human macrophages and induces their apoptosis. Infect. Immun. 71:5979-5985.
15. Greub, G., and D. Raoult. 2002. Parachlamydiaceae: potential emerging pathogens. Emerg. Infect. Dis. 8:625-630.
16. Kahane, S., D. Greenberg, M. G. Friedman, H. Haikin, and R. Dagan. 1998. High prevalence of "Simkania Z," a novel Chlamydia-like bacterium, in infants with acute bronchiolitis. J. Infect. Dis. 177:1425-1429.
17. Marrie, T. J., D. Raoult, B. La Scola, R. J. Birtles, and E. de Carolis. 2001. Legionella-like and other amoebal pathogens as agents of community-acquired pneumonia. Emerg. Infect. Dis. 7:1026-1029.
18. Thomas, V., N. Casson, and G. Greub. 2006. Criblamydia sequanensis, a new intracellular Chlamydiales isolated from Seine river water using amoebal co-culture. Environ. Microbiol. 8:2125-2135.