title: Combination of capillary electrophoresis, PCR and physiological assays in differentiation of clinical strains of Staphylococcus aureus.
abstract: Fast, sensitive and cheap determination of pathogenic bacteria is extremely important in many branches, for example biotechnology, quality control, analysis of samples and antimicrobial therapy. The development and application of analytical techniques in practice could provide new possibilities in this regard. The bacterial pathogen Staphylococcus aureus is responsible for a significant amount of human morbidity and mortality. Rapid and sensitive determination is therefore very important. In the present study, novel methods, based on capillary zone electrophoresis and (as confirmation of these results) molecular analysis of a part of the coag gene, were developed for identification and differentiation of three S. aureus strains. The electrophoretic measurements rely on the differential mobility of bacteria in the fused silica capillary under the direct current electric field. To perform coagulase gene typing, the repeated units encoding hypervariable regions of the S. aureus gene were amplified using the PCR technique followed by restriction enzyme digestion and analysis of restriction fragment length polymorphism patterns as well as sequencing. Finally, the results of electrophoretic measurements with molecular analysis were compared.
authors.affiliation: Department of Microbiology, Institute of General and Molecular Biology, Nicolaus Copernicus University, Toruń, Poland. hrynk@biol.uni.torun.pl
authors.forename: Katarzyna
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Hrynkiewicz
authors.forename: Ewa
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Kłodzińska
authors.forename: Hanna
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Dahm
authors.forename: Jacek
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Szeliga
authors.forename: Marek
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Jackowski
authors.forename: Boguslaw
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Buszewski
mesh_terms: D001426:Bacterial Proteins / Q000235:genetics; D015373:Bacterial Typing Techniques / Q000379:methods*; D003030:Coagulase / Q000235:genetics; D019075:Electrophoresis, Capillary / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D016133:Polymerase Chain Reaction / Q000379:methods*; D012150:Polymorphism, Restriction Fragment Length; D013203:Staphylococcal Infections / Q000382:microbiology*; D013211:Staphylococcus aureus / Q000235:genetics / Q000302:isolation & purification* / Q000502:physiology
chemical_list: D001426:Bacterial Proteins; D003030:Coagulase