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Sahu R, Vishnuraj MR, Srinivas C, Dadimi B, Megha GK, Pollumahanti N, Malik SS, Vaithiyanathan S, Rawool DB, Barbuddhe SB. Development and comparative evaluation of droplet digital PCR and quantitative PCR for the detection and quantification of Chlamydia psittaci. J Microbiol Methods 2021; 190:106318. [PMID: 34592374 DOI: 10.1016/j.mimet.2021.106318] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/06/2021] [Revised: 08/28/2021] [Accepted: 08/29/2021] [Indexed: 10/20/2022]
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Chlamydia psittaci is a zoonotic pathogen mainly transmitted by psittacine birds and poultry. The low shedding rate of the pathogen in the apparently healthy birds and human clinical cases may result in false-negative results. In the present study, a droplet digital PCR (ddPCR) assay was developed and compared with optimized quantitative PCR (qPCR) for the detection of C. psittaci from the clinical samples. The ddPCR assay was found to be comparatively more sensitive than the qPCR, wherein the limit of detection (LOD) of ddPCR was upto 2.4 copies of the DNA template, whereas, the qPCR could detect upto 38 copies of the DNA template in the reaction mixture. Overall, the developed ddPCR assay was found to be robust, specific, and could reliably quantify up to 17.8 copies of the DNA template. Finally, the applicability of the developed ddPCR assay was tested by screening the field samples (n = 124), comprising lung tissues from dead poultry and feral birds; pooled faecal samples from the free-living birds, commercial and backyard poultry farms; pharyngeal and cloacal swabs collected from the duck farms. Of these, a total of seven samples were found to be positive by the ddPCR, whereas, three samples could be detected as positive using the qPCR. The developed ddPCR could serve as a reliable screening tool, particularly in those clinical samples wherein the shedding of C. psittaci is substantially very low.
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- Radhakrishna Sahu
- ICAR-National Research Centre on Meat, Chengicherla, Hyderabad 500092, India; Department of Veterinary Public Health, ICAR- Indian Veterinary Research Institute, Izatnagar 243122, India
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- ICAR-National Research Centre on Meat, Chengicherla, Hyderabad 500092, India
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- ICAR-National Research Centre on Meat, Chengicherla, Hyderabad 500092, India
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- Department of Veterinary Public Health, ICAR- Indian Veterinary Research Institute, Izatnagar 243122, India
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- Department of Veterinary Public Health, ICAR- Indian Veterinary Research Institute, Izatnagar 243122, India
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- Department of Veterinary Public Health, ICAR- Indian Veterinary Research Institute, Izatnagar 243122, India
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- ICAR-National Research Centre on Meat, Chengicherla, Hyderabad 500092, India
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- ICAR-National Research Centre on Meat, Chengicherla, Hyderabad 500092, India
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Mohseni AH, Taghinezhad-S S, Keyvani H, Ghobadi N. Comparison of Acyclovir and Multistrain Lactobacillus brevis in Women with Recurrent Genital Herpes Infections: a Double-Blind, Randomized, Controlled Study. Probiotics Antimicrob Proteins 2019; 10:740-747. [PMID: 28852985 DOI: 10.1007/s12602-017-9320-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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We performed a randomized double-blind controlled trial to compare the efficacy and safety of multistrain probiotic and acyclovir in women patients with recurrent genital herpes simplex virus type 2 (HSV-2) infections. Eighty-one patients enrolled in the study were being treated with multistrain Lactobacillus brevis one vaginal capsule every 12 h and oral acyclovir 400 mg twice daily for 6 months. Of 53 patients who completed both treatment courses, no important differences were identified between acyclovir and probiotic for the primary and secondary efficacy endpoint, resolution of episode (hazard ratio, 0.60; 95% CI, 0.3429 to 1.0663; P = 0.08), lesion healing time (hazard ratio, 0.57; 95% CI, 0.3034 to 1.0717, P = 0.08), viral shedding (hazard ratio, 0.54; 95% CI, 0.3027 to 0.9750, P = 0.04), and percentage of pain (hazard ratio, 0.48; 95% CI, 0.2708 to 0.8545, P = 0.01). The median time to first and second recurrence after treatment were 43 and 121 days in patients receiving acyclovir and 33 and 118 days in patients receiving probiotic (HR 2.61; 95% CI, 1.4427 to 4.7546, P = 0.001, and HR 0.62; 95% CI, 0.3500 to 1.1133, P = 0.1, respectively). No clinically important effects happened during the probiotic treatment but some of adverse events reported in patients taking acyclovir. Easy availability, low cost, and no side effect of L. brevis are valuable properties of probiotic therapy compared with acyclovir. Therefore, we concluded that multistrain L. brevis could play an important role in suppression of recurrent genital herpes simplex virus infection.
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- Amir Hossein Mohseni
- Department of Microbiology, Faculty of Basic Sciences, Science and Research Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran.,Research and Development (R&D) Department, Keyvan Virology Specialty Laboratory (KVSL), Tehran, Iran
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- Department of Microbiology, Faculty of Basic Sciences, Science and Research Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran. .,Research and Development (R&D) Department, Keyvan Virology Specialty Laboratory (KVSL), Tehran, Iran.
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- Research and Development (R&D) Department, Keyvan Virology Specialty Laboratory (KVSL), Tehran, Iran. .,Department of Virology, Faculty of Medicine, Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.
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- Research and Development (R&D) Department, Keyvan Virology Specialty Laboratory (KVSL), Tehran, Iran
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Taghinezhad-S S, Mohseni AH, Keyvani H, Razavilar V. Protection against human papillomavirus type 16-induced tumors in C57BL/6 mice by mucosal vaccination with Lactococcus lactis NZ9000 expressing E6 oncoprotein. Microb Pathog 2018; 126:149-156. [PMID: 30391536 DOI: 10.1016/j.micpath.2018.10.043] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/15/2018] [Revised: 10/30/2018] [Accepted: 10/31/2018] [Indexed: 01/19/2023]
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Recombinant strains of Lactococcus lactis NZ9000 that express native and codon-optimized E6 protein (fused to the SPusp45 secretion signal) were successfully constructed by using the nisin-controlled gene expression (NICE) system. Expression of the recombinant strains was evaluated by Western blot analysis. Female mice of strain C57BL/6 were immunized orally with recombinant lactococci expressing inducible E6 oncoprotein and the antigen-specific antibody production (IgA and IgG) and cytokines were measured by ELISA and ELISPOT assay, respectively. Our outcomes indicate that the HPV-16 E6 specific IL-2- and IFN-γ-secreting lymphocytes in the antigen-stimulated intestinal mucosal lymphocytes, splenocytes and vaginal lymphocytes were significantly higher than the control groups. We showed that L. lactis having codon-optimized E6 oncogene had better inhibitory effect on tumor growth, better treatment effects on progression of tumor size, and better survival rate in comparison with L. lactis having native E6 oncogene, (P < 0.0001). In conclusion, the rE6 protein displayed by L. lactis can induce humoral and cellular immunity. Taken together, these preclinical results represent a promising step towards the development of recombinant L. lactis as a live oral vector vaccine to treat the HPV-16 associated with cervical cancer.
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- Sedigheh Taghinezhad-S
- Department of Microbiology, Faculty of Basic Sciences, Science and Research Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran.
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- Department of Microbiology, Faculty of Basic Sciences, Science and Research Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran.
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- Department of Virology, Faculty of Medicine, Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.
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- Department of Food Hygiene, Faculty of Veterinary Sciences, Science and Research Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran.
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Described here is a novel, universal exogenous internal positive control (IPC), which is fully synthetic for unparalleled quality control. The IPC was rationally designed, is small and efficiently amplified, has been successfully utilized alone or in triplex qPCR reactions, and is not crossreactive to human DNA or to any of the numerous non-human DNA samples tested. It was sensitive to inhibition by at least four commonly encountered amplification inhibitors. The IPC was used in a hydrolysis probe qPCR assay; however, it may be adaptable for other applications such as intercalating dye qPCR, PCR, isothermal amplification and reverse transcription-PCR.
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Mohseni AH, Soleimani M, Majidzadeh-A K, Taghinezhad-S S, Keyvani H. Active Expression of Human Tissue Plasminogen Activator (t-PA) c-DNA from Pulmonary Metastases in the Methylotrophic Yeast Pichia Pastoris KM71H Strain. Asian Pac J Cancer Prev 2017; 18:2249-2254. [PMID: 28843264 PMCID: PMC5697489 DOI: 10.22034/apjcp.2017.18.8.2249] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/22/2023] Open
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Background: Human tissue-type plasminogen activator (t-PA) is a key protease of the trypsin family. It catalyzes the activation of zymogen plasminogen to the fibrin-degrading proteinase, plasmin, leading to digestion of fibrin clots. The recombinant enzyme produced by recombinant technology issued to dissolve blood clots in treatment of various human diseases such as coronary artery thrombosis, pulmonary embolism, acute ischemic stroke (AIS). Pichia pastoris expression system is a unique system for the production of high level of recombinant proteins. GS115 and KM71H are two kinds of Pichia pastoris strains whilst production of recombinant proteins in these strains is not predictable. The aim of the study was evaluation of t-PA expression in KM71H strains. Methods: In this study, the cDNA of the t-PA gene was amplified by PCR, sequenced and cloned into Pichia pastoris KM71H host strain using pPICZalphaA expression vector that allows methanol-induced expression and secretion of the protein. Results: Dot blotting results confirmed the presence oft-PA in the cell supernatant. Western blotting test revealed the approximate size of 70 KDa for recombinant t-PA. Quantitative ELISA experiment showed 810 µg/L of t-PA in the supernatant samples. Zymography analysis confirmed the proteolytic activity and biological function of the expressed recombinant t-PA. Conclusions: Correspondingly, Pichia pastoris KM71H is an appropriate strain for production of active recombinant protein.
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- Amir Hossein Mohseni
- Department of Microbiology, Qom Branch, Islamic Azad University, Qom, Iran.,Department of Microbiology, Faculty of Basic Sciences, Science and Research Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran.
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Design of an internal amplification control for a duplex PCR used in the detection of Shiga toxin producing Escherichia coli in pediatric feces. Mol Cell Probes 2015; 29:351-357. [DOI: 10.1016/j.mcp.2015.09.006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/12/2015] [Revised: 09/22/2015] [Accepted: 09/23/2015] [Indexed: 12/31/2022]
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Carbonero A. Response to the Letter to the Editor by Prof. Viroj Wiwanitkit. Prev Vet Med 2015; 119:91-2. [DOI: 10.1016/j.prevetmed.2015.02.007] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/06/2015] [Accepted: 02/08/2015] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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