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Appl. Environ. Microbiol., Apr 1995, 1311-1317, Vol 61, No. 4
Copyright © 1995, American Society for Microbiology

Sequence of a cloned pR72H fragment and its use for detection of Vibrio parahaemolyticus in shellfish with the PCR

CY Lee, SF Pan and CH Chen
Graduate Institute of Agricultural Chemistry, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Republic of China.

The nucleotide sequence of pR72H cloned from Vibrio parahaemolyticus 93 was determined. We examined all V. parahaemolyticus gene sequences published in the GenBank-EMBL databases for homology and found that no other DNA sequence of V. parahaemolyticus was highly homologous to the sequence reported in this study. A pair of primers, VP33-VP32, derived from a pR72H fragment were selected to detect V. parahaemolyticus. The sensitivity of PCR detection for a pure culture of V. parahaemolyticus was 10 cells from crude bacterial lysates. Furthermore, a detection level of 2.6 fg, equivalent to 1 cell, was obtained by using purified chromosomal DNA as the template. The expected PCR products were obtained from all V. parahaemolyticus strains tested (n = 124), while no PCR amplicons were found in other vibrios or related genera (n = 50). High levels (10(6) to 10(10) CFU/ml) of Escherichia coli cells did not affect the PCR assay sensitivity. The presence of 10(8) V. parahaemolyticus cells or 10(9) E. coli cells in the PCR mixtures completely inhibited the PCR. When oyster samples were inoculated with V. parahaemolyticus 93 and cultured in tryptic soy broth containing 3% NaCl for 3 h at 35 degrees C, an initial sample inoculum level of 9.3 CFU/g was detected in a PCR assay with crude bacterial lysates. The PCR assay with enrichment culturing in salt polymyxin broth was compared with the conventional method for naturally contaminated shellfish and fish samples. We conclude that this PCR assay with enrichment culturing is a good alternative method for the detection of V. parahaemolyticus.

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