A New Loop-Mediated Isothermal Amplification Method for Rapid, Simple, and Sensitive Detection of Leptospira spp. in Urine

Author:

Koizumi Nobuo1,Nakajima Chie2,Harunari Tsunehito3,Tanikawa Tsutomu3,Tokiwa Toshihiro4,Uchimura Eriko5,Furuya Tokujiro6,Mingala Claro Niegos7,Villanueva Marvin Ardeza7,Ohnishi Makoto1,Suzuki Yasuhiko2

Affiliation:

1. Department of Bacteriology, National Institute of Infectious Disease, Tokyo, Japan

2. Division of Global Epidemiology, Hokkaido University Research Center for Zoonosis Control, Hokkaido, Japan

3. Ikari Corporation, Chiba, Japan

4. Section of Environmental Parasitology, Graduate School of Tokyo Medical and Dental University, Tokyo, Japan

5. Kagoshima Central Livestock Hygiene Service Center, Kagoshima, Japan

6. Pfizer Japan Inc., Tokyo, Japan

7. Animal Health Unit, Philippine Carabao Center National Headquarters and Genepool, Nueva Ecija, Philippines

Abstract

ABSTRACT We developed a new loop-mediated isothermal amplification (LAMP) method to detect rrs , a 16S rRNA gene of pathogenic Leptospira spp. in urine. The method enables detection of two leptospiral cells per reaction mixture following boiling of urine specimens. The sensitivity of this method is higher than that of culture or of flaB nested PCR.

Publisher

American Society for Microbiology

Subject

Microbiology (medical)

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