Publication: Microwell hybridization assay for detection of PCR products from Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex and the recombinant Mycobacterium smegmatis strain 1008 used as an internal control
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1996-09-01
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00951137
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2-s2.0-0029742337
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Mahidol University
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Journal of Clinical Microbiology. Vol.34, No.9 (1996), 2117-2120
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L. F F Kox, G. T. Noordhoek, M. Kunakorn, S. Mulder, M. Sterrenburg, A. H J Kolk Microwell hybridization assay for detection of PCR products from Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex and the recombinant Mycobacterium smegmatis strain 1008 used as an internal control. Journal of Clinical Microbiology. Vol.34, No.9 (1996), 2117-2120. Retrieved from: https://repository.li.mahidol.ac.th/handle/20.500.14594/17615
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Microwell hybridization assay for detection of PCR products from Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex and the recombinant Mycobacterium smegmatis strain 1008 used as an internal control
Abstract
A microwell hybridization assay was developed for the detection of the PCR products from both Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex bacteria and the recombinant Mycobacterium smegmatis strain 1008 that is used as an internal control to monitor inhibition in the PCR based on the M. tuberculosis complex-specific insertion sequence IS6110. The test is based on specific detection with digoxigenin-labeled oligonucleotide probes of biotinylated PCR products which are captured in a microtiter plate coated with streptavidin. The captured PCR products are hybridized separately with two probes, one specific for the PCR product from IS6110 from M. tuberculosis complex and the other specific for the PCR fragment from the modified IS6110 fragment from the recombinant M. smegmatis 1008. The microwell hybridization assay discriminates perfectly between the two types of amplicon. The amount of PCR product that can be detected by this assay is 10 times less than that which can be detected by agarose gel electrophoresis. The test can be performed in 2 h. It is much faster and less laborious than Southern blot hybridization. Furthermore, the interpretation of results is objective. The assay was used with 172 clinical samples in a routine microbiology laboratory, and the results were in complete agreement with those of agarose gel electrophoresis and Southern blot hybridization.