Detection and Quantification of Flavobacterium Psychrophilum in Water and Fish Tissue Samples by Quantitative Real Time PCR

Overview

Journal BMC Microbiol

Publisher Biomed Central

Specialty Microbiology

Date 2014 Apr 29

PMID 24767577

Citations 16

Authors

Nicole Strepparava

Thomas Wahli

Helmut Segner

Orlando Petrini

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Abstract

Background: Flavobacterium psychrophilum is the agent of Bacterial Cold Water Disease and Rainbow Trout Fry Syndrome, two diseases leading to high mortality. Pathogen detection is mainly carried out using cultures and more rapid and sensitive methods are needed.

Results: We describe a qPCR technique based on the single copy gene β' DNA-dependent RNA polymerase (rpoC). Its detection limit was 20 gene copies and the quantification limit 103 gene copies per reaction. Tests on spiked spleens with known concentrations of F. psychrophilum (106 to 101 cells per reaction) showed no cross-reactions between the spleen tissue and the primers and probe. Screening of water samples and spleens from symptomless and infected fishes indicated that the pathogen was already present before the outbreaks, but F. psychrophilum was only quantifiable in spleens from diseased fishes.

Conclusions: This qPCR can be used as a highly sensitive and specific method to detect F. psychrophilum in different sample types without the need for culturing. qPCR allows a reliable detection and quantification of F. psychrophilum in samples with low pathogen densities. Quantitative data on F. psychrophilum abundance could be useful to investigate risk factors linked to infections and also as early warning system prior to potential devastating outbreak.

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