ÿþ<HTML><HEAD><TITLE>25º Congresso Brasileiro de Microbiologia </TITLE><link rel=STYLESHEET type=text/css href=css.css></HEAD><BODY aLink=#ff0000 bgColor=#FFFFFF leftMargin=0 link=#000000 text=#000000 topMargin=0 vLink=#000000 marginheight=0 marginwidth=0><table align=center width=700 cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0><tr><td align=left bgcolor=#cccccc valign=top width=550><font face=arial size=2><strong><font face=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif size=3><font size=1>25º Congresso Brasileiro de Microbiologia </font></font></strong><font face=Verdana size=1><b><br></b></font><font face=Verdana, Arial,Helvetica, sans-serif size=1><strong> </strong></font></font></td><td align=right bgcolor=#cccccc valign=top width=150><font face=arial size=2><strong><font face=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif size=1><font size=1>ResumoID:2013-1</font></em></font></strong></font></td></tr><tr><td colspan=2><br><br><table align=center width=700><tr><td>Área: <b>Microbiologia Clinica ( Divisão A )</b><p align=justify><strong><STRONG><FONT FACE="ARIAL, HELVETICA, SANS-SERIF">EVALUATION OF FIVE DIFFERENT METHODS TO EXTRACT MICROBIAL GENOMIC DNA FROM STOOL SAMPLES</FONT></STRONG></strong></p><p align=justify><b><u>Ila Fernanda Nunes Lima </u></b> (<i>UFC</i>); <b>Josiane da Silva Quetz </b> (<i>UFC</i>); <b>Alexandre Havt </b> (<i>UFC</i>); <b>Aldo Ângelo Moreira Lima </b> (<i>UFC</i>)<br><br></p><b><font size=2>Resumo</font></b><p align=justify class=tres><font size=2><P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN lang=EN-US style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 115%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri">INTRODUCTION:</SPAN></B><SPAN lang=EN-US style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 115%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri"> Intestinal pathogens are usually diagnosed by isolation and identification of the organisms from fecal cultures. Culture methods are precise, but relatively time-consuming, labor-intensive and difficult for some fastidious intestinal pathogens. Polymerase chain reaction (PCR) is efficient, specific and a sensitive technique for the detection of organisms and are increasingly applied to the diagnosis of infectious diseases. We aimed to evaluate five different methods to extract DNA from stool samples to be used as a PCR template. <?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" /><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P> <P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN lang=EN-US style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 115%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri">MATERIAL AND METHODS:</SPAN></B><SPAN lang=EN-US style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 115%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri"> Fecal samples collected from children living in Fortaleza, Ceara, Brazil, were previously defined as positive for <I style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">Cryptosporidium</I> sp. and enteroaggregative<I style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal"> Escherichia coli</I> (EAEC).<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">&nbsp; </SPAN>These s</SPAN><SPAN lang=EN-US style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 115%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'">tool samples were pretreated with 1) two cycles of freeze-thawing plus alkaline treatment with potassium hydroxide (KOH) and dithiotreitol (DTT), 2) alkaline treatment with KOH and DTT, 3) one cycle of freeze-thawing using liquid nitrogen, 4) three cycles of freeze-thawing using liquid nitrogen, and 5) no pretreatment. All aliquots were submitted to the QIAamp DNA Stool Mini Kit (Qiagen, Valencia, CA). PCR products for specific genes of <I style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">Cryptosporidium </I>sp. and EAEC were visualized after 1.2% agarose gel electrophoresis and ethidium bromide staining. <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P> <P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN lang=EN-US style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 115%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri">RESULTS:</SPAN></B><SPAN lang=EN-US style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 115%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri"> Nested PCR amplification of the </SPAN><SPAN lang=EN-US style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 115%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'">18S rRNA gene of <I style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">Cryptosporidium</I> sp. and a single PCR of the <I style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">aggR</I> gene of EAEC showed differences among the types of pre-treatment tested. Analysis of gel bands intensity revealed variations among the methods, although all of them had originated bands clearly visible. For <I style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">Cryptosporidium</I> sp., the techniques 1 (physical + chemical pretreatment), 2 (chemical pretreatment only), and 5 (no pretreatment) resulted bands with similar intensity. For EAEC, the option 5 yielded the best level of detection. <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P> <P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN lang=EN-US style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 115%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri">CONCLUSION:</SPAN></B><SPAN lang=EN-US style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 115%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri"> Our comparative study indicated that the absence of pretreatment was similar to other methods for <I style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">Cryptosporidium</I> sp., and was superior for EAEC concerning to the isolation of PCR-amplified DNA from fecal samples. The use of untreated fecal samples directly as target for pathogen DNA extraction reduces time and labor work.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P> <P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN lang=EN-US style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 115%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri">FINANCIAL SUPPORT:</SPAN></B><SPAN lang=EN-US style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 115%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri"> FIC/NIH (USA) and CNPq (Brazil)<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P></font></p><br><b>Palavras-chave: </b>&nbsp;DIAGNÓSTICO MOLECULAR, DIARRÉIA INFANTIL, EXTRAÇÃO DE DNA</td></tr></table></tr></td></table></body></html>