Evaluation of four commercial DNA extraction kits for the detection of Microsporidia and the importance of pretreatments in DNA isolation

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Result on the web

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/ap-2018-0044" target="_blank" >http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/ap-2018-0044</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/ap-2018-0044" target="_blank" >10.1515/ap-2018-0044</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Evaluation of four commercial DNA extraction kits for the detection of Microsporidia and the importance of pretreatments in DNA isolation

Original language description

Microsporidia are obligate intracellular parasitic protozoa infecting the wide variety of hosts and are commonly known as a cause of chronic diarrhea particularly in immunocompromised individuals. Molecular-based tests have high sensitivity and specificity in disease diagnosis. However, these tests' performance relies on the isolation of DNA in a good concentration. The standard procedures of commercial DNA extraction kits are usually insufficient for this purpose due to the tough walls of spores. This study aimed to test the significance of pretreatments by glass beads and freeze-thawing processes in DNA isolation from microsporidia spores. The parasite was cultured in growing Vero cells and seven serial dilutions were prepared from the collected spores. DNA purification was performed according to different tissue kits and stool kit procedures with and without any pretreatment. Concentration of isolated DNA samples were evaluated by real-time PCR. As a result of this study, the detectable amount of spores is minimum 10 spores in each 100 mu l sample according to the different tissue kits' standard protocols. However, according to the DNA stool mini kit, the detectable amount of spores was found to be 1,000 spores/100 mu l of stool sample when pretreated with both the freeze-thawing and glass beads methods. In conclusion, the current study demonstrated that further pretreatments are an essential process for DNA extraction from the stool specimens in order to avoid possible false negativity in the diagnosis of microsporidiosis.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

30310 - Parasitology

Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2018

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

ACTA PARASITOLOGICA

ISSN

1230-2821

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

63

Issue of the periodical within the volume

2

Country of publishing house

PL - POLAND

Number of pages

7

Pages from-to

386-392

UT code for WoS article

000430069600019

EID of the result in the Scopus database

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