title: A comparative study of different PCR-based DNA fingerprinting techniques for typing of the Acinetobacter calcoaceticus-A. baumannii complex.
abstract: Different PCR-based DNA fingerprinting techniques were evaluated for typing 26 clinical isolates belonging to the Acinetobacter calcoaceticus-A. baumannii complex. Seven isolates belonged to a previously defined outbreak while 19 isolates were unrelated epidemiologically. The PCR-based DNA fingerprinting techniques used were: (i) repetitive extragenic palindromic (REP) PCR; (ii) enterobacterial repetitive intergenic consensus (ERIC) PCR; (iii) randomly amplified polymorphic DNA with M13 forward primer; (iv) restriction analysis of the amplified 16S rRNA gene (ARDRA-16S); and (v) restriction analysis of an amplified region containing the 16S-23S rRNA spacer region and part of the 23S rRNA gene (ARDRA 23S + spacer). The discrimination index for the PCR-based DNA fingerprinting techniques was: 0.99 for REP; 0.94 for ERIC; 0.87 for M13; 0.60 for ARDRA-16S digested with Hpa II and <0.50 for ARDRA 23S + spacer. It was concluded that REP-PCR possessed high discriminatory power and reproducibility in comparison with the other PCR-based DNA fingerprinting techniques, and is a simple and rapid typing method for use in epidemiological studies of isolates belonging to the A. calcoaceticus-A. baumannii complex.
authors.affiliation: Department de Microbiologia, Hospital Clinic, Facultat de Medicina, Universitat de Barcelona, Spain.
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Vila
authors.forename: M A
authors.initials: MA
authors.lastname: Marcos
authors.forename: M T
authors.initials: MT
authors.lastname: Jimenez de Anta
mesh_terms: D000150:Acinetobacter / Q000145:classification* / Q000235:genetics; D000151:Acinetobacter Infections / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000382:microbiology; D016954:Acinetobacter calcoaceticus / Q000145:classification* / Q000235:genetics; D001483:Base Sequence; D003428:Cross Infection / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000382:microbiology; D016172:DNA Fingerprinting; D017931:DNA Primers / Q000737:chemistry; D004269:DNA, Bacterial / Q000032:analysis* / Q000737:chemistry; D004196:Disease Outbreaks; D006801:Humans; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D016133:Polymerase Chain Reaction; D012336:RNA, Ribosomal, 16S / Q000235:genetics; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D012680:Sensitivity and Specificity
chemical_list: D017931:DNA Primers; D004269:DNA, Bacterial; D012336:RNA, Ribosomal, 16S