title: Detection of classical swine fever virus in archival formalin-fixed tissues by reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction.
abstract: Classical swine fever (CSF) is an economically important Office International des Epizooties list A disease of swine. Inadequate diagnostic infrastructure in developing countries may sometimes make the conduit of viable samples to diagnostic laboratories difficult and at times formalin-fixed tissues may be the only morbid materials available which are not amenable to most laboratory tests. The potential diagnostic abilities in such situations would be enhanced if a highly sensitive and specific method as reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) could be applied to such samples. In the present study, archival formalin-fixed CSF samples were subjected to successful RT-PCR amplification of a 172-bp fragment from E2/NS2 region of CSFV genome. The fidelity of amplification was established by a dot-blot hybridization assay employing a homologous biotinylated cDNA probe. The optimized procedure may be resorted to as a diagnostic tool if viable samples are unavailable and may have the potential to facilitate retrospective studies on archival samples.
authors.affiliation: Division of Pathology, Indian Veterinary Research Institute (I.V.R.I), Izatnagar 243 122, Uttar Pradesh, India.
authors.forename: V K
authors.initials: VK
authors.lastname: Singh
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Sai Kumar
authors.forename: O P
authors.initials: OP
authors.lastname: Paliwal
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D006691:Classical Swine Fever / Q000175:diagnosis; D006692:Classical Swine Fever Virus / Q000302:isolation & purification*; D005404:Fixatives; D005557:Formaldehyde; D012367:RNA, Viral / Q000032:analysis; D020133:Reverse Transcriptase Polymerase Chain Reaction / Q000379:methods / Q000662:veterinary*; D013552:Swine; D014021:Tissue Preservation
chemical_list: D005404:Fixatives; D012367:RNA, Viral; D005557:Formaldehyde