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Genotyping of avian pathogenic Escherichia coli by DNA fragment analysis for the differences in simple sequence repeats

  • Received : 2018.08.13
  • Accepted : 2018.12.01
  • Published : 2018.12.30

Abstract

Avian pathogenic E. coli (APEC) causes severe economic losses in the poultry farms, due to systemic infections leading to lethal colisepticemia. It causes a variety of diseases from air sac infection to systemic spread leading to septicemia. Secondary infection contains opportunistic infections due to immunosuppression disease. Collibacillosis causes the great problems in the poultry industry in Korea. Thus, it is necessary to identify and classify the characteristics of E. coli isolate of chicken origin to confirm the diversity of symptoms and whether they are transmitted among the farms. Fragment analysis is identify the difference in the number of Variable-Number Tandem-Repeats (VNTRs) for genotyping. VNTRs have repeating structure (Microsatellite, Short tandem repeats; STR, Simple sequence repeats; SSR) in the chromosome. This region can be used as a genetic marker because of its high mutation rate. And various lengths of the amplified DNA fragment cause the difference in the number of repetition of the DNA specific site. The number of repetition sequences indicates the separated size of fragments, so the each fragments can be distinguished by specific samples. The results of the sample show that there is no difference in six microsatellite loci (yjiD, aidB, molR_1, ftsZ, b1668, yibA). There are differences among the farms in relation of the number of repetitions of other six microsatellite loci (ycgW, yaiN, yiaB, mhpR, b0829, caiF). Four (ycgW, yiaB, b0829, caiF) of these six microsatellite loci show statistically significant differences (P<0.05). It means that the analysis using four microsatellite loci including ycgW, yiaB, b0829, and caiF can confirm among the farms. Five E. coli samples in one farm have same SSR repetition at all markers. But, there are significant differences from other farms at Four (ycgW, yiaB, b0829, caiF) microsatellite loci. These results emphasize again that the four microsatellite loci makes a difference in the amplified DNA fragments, enabling it to be used for E. coli genotyping.

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Fig. 2. The position of peaks appear in the Gene mapper and a panel was formed on each place. Each peaks represents aidB (1), caiF (2), ftsZ (3), b1668 (4), yaiN (5), yiaB (6), molR (7), mhpR(8), yjiD (9) ycgW (10), yibA (11) and b0829 (12).

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Fig. 1. Result of five distinct bands in the electrophoresis.

Table 1. A set of radioactive primers for twelve Short tandem repeats amplification region

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Table 2. PCR primer mix combination

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Table 3. The position of peaks and the number of repeats at twelve loci

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Table 4. E.coli diversity of SSR loci in two standard stains and sixteen Farm samples

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