Authors
Francis Martineau, François J Picard, Danbing Ke, Sonia Paradis, Paul H Roy, Marc Ouellette, Michel G Bergeron
Publication date
2001/7/1
Journal
Journal of clinical microbiology
Volume
39
Issue
7
Pages
2541-2547
Publisher
American Society for Microbiology
Description
We have developed a PCR-based assay which allows the detection of staphylococci at the genus level by targeting thetuf gene, which encodes the elongation factor Tu. Degenerate PCR primers derived from consensus regions of severaltuf genes were used to amplify a target region of 884 bp from 11 representative staphylococcal species. Subsequently, the entire nucleotide sequence of these amplicons was determined. The analysis of a multiple alignment of these sequences revealed regions conserved among staphylococci but distinct from those of other gram-positive bacteria genetically related to staphylococci. PCR primers complementary to these regions could amplify specifically and efficiently a DNA fragment of 370 bp for all of 27 different staphylococcal species tested. There was no amplification with genomic DNA prepared from 53 nonstaphylococcal species tested to verify the specificity of the assay …
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