Detection of foot-and-mouth disease virus from culture and clinical samples by reverse transcription-PCR coupled to restriction enzyme and sequence analysis

A reverse transcription-PCR (RT-PCR) method is presented for the highly sensitive and specific detection of foot-and-mouth disease virus (FMDV). A primer pair flanking a region of the viral polymerase gene (3D) corresponding to the C-terminus of the protein was designed and a single step RT-PCR reaction was developed. The assay allowed the detection of viral RNA from a variety of animal samples and from a wide range of FMDV isolates of different origins and serotypes. The presence of an Ahd I restriction site within the amplicon in 96% of the isolates analyzed allowed an additional confirmation step of the positive reactions by a simple digestion yielding characteristic fragment sizes. The set of primers described here was suitable for direct sequencing of the PCR product (290 bp), and the nucleotide sequences corresponding to the SAT 1 and SAT 3 strains were determined. The segment amplified, when used in phylogenetic studies, allowed the clustering of SAT isolates and the rest of FMDV strains as two separate lineages.

Bibliographic Details

Main Authors:	Sáiz, M., de La Morena, D. B., Blanco Lavilla, Esther, Núñez, J. I., Fernández, R., Sánchez-Vizcaíno, J. M.
Format:	artículo biblioteca
Language:	English
Published:	BioMed Central 2003
Subjects:	Foot-and-mouth disease, Direct RT-PCR, Restriction enzyme analysis, Sequence analysis,
Online Access:	http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12792/3989 http://hdl.handle.net/10261/292945
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