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Badie F, Moosavian S M. Rapid detection of Pseudomonas aeruginosain clinical samples of burned patients by Fluorescent in situ hybridization(FISH) . Iran J Med Microbiol 2008; 1 (4) :29-34
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1- Department of Microbiology, School ofMedicine, Ahwaz Jundishapur University of Medical Sciences, Ahwaz , f_b_1977@yahoo.com
2- Department of Microbiology, School ofMedicine, Ahwaz Jundishapur University of Medical Sciences, Ahwaz
2- Department of Microbiology, School ofMedicine, Ahwaz Jundishapur University of Medical Sciences, Ahwaz
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Background and Objectives: Pseudomonas aeruginosa is one of the most important opportunistic
pathogens in patients who suffer from immunodeficiency and burns. Wound infections caused by P.
aeruginosa can rapidly change to systemic and life threatening situation. The aim of this study was to apply
florescent in situ hybridization (FISH) method for rapid detection of P. aeruginosa in burrn patients.
Material and Methods: This study was performed on 100 samples of wound and blood from burn patients at Taleghani Hospital in Ahwaz. The samples were usedfor both bacterial culture and FISH assays. To use FISH technique, the samples were probed with the complementary sequences to specific region of 16 S rRNA. The probes were FITC- labeled pB-00375 specific for pseudomonas genus CY3-labeled pb-00384 specific for P. aeruginosa and EUB-338 as a eubacterial probe. Due to labeling of the probes with fluorescent die, the fluorescent signals appeared shining after hybridization of the probes with the organism under the fluorescent microscope.
Results: Of 42 blood samples, 13 were positive for Pseudomonas in culture. Only one culture positive sample was recognized as negative by FISH. Sensivity and specificity of FISH for detection P. aeruginosa in blood samples was 94.7% and 100% respectively. FISH could detect all 20 culture positive samples from wounds corresponding to sensitivity and spicifity of 100% and 93/3% respectively.
Conclusion: When rapid diagnosis of infectious agents is required, FISH can be used as sensitive technique for detection of causative organism with a completeprocess of 3 hours. Moreover, due to visibility of morphology of infected organism in “FISH”, recognition of infecting agent will be achieved confidently
Material and Methods: This study was performed on 100 samples of wound and blood from burn patients at Taleghani Hospital in Ahwaz. The samples were usedfor both bacterial culture and FISH assays. To use FISH technique, the samples were probed with the complementary sequences to specific region of 16 S rRNA. The probes were FITC- labeled pB-00375 specific for pseudomonas genus CY3-labeled pb-00384 specific for P. aeruginosa and EUB-338 as a eubacterial probe. Due to labeling of the probes with fluorescent die, the fluorescent signals appeared shining after hybridization of the probes with the organism under the fluorescent microscope.
Results: Of 42 blood samples, 13 were positive for Pseudomonas in culture. Only one culture positive sample was recognized as negative by FISH. Sensivity and specificity of FISH for detection P. aeruginosa in blood samples was 94.7% and 100% respectively. FISH could detect all 20 culture positive samples from wounds corresponding to sensitivity and spicifity of 100% and 93/3% respectively.
Conclusion: When rapid diagnosis of infectious agents is required, FISH can be used as sensitive technique for detection of causative organism with a completeprocess of 3 hours. Moreover, due to visibility of morphology of infected organism in “FISH”, recognition of infecting agent will be achieved confidently
Type of Study: Original Research Article |
Subject:
Medical Bacteriology
Received: 2013/11/14 | Accepted: 2013/11/14 | ePublished: 2013/11/14
Received: 2013/11/14 | Accepted: 2013/11/14 | ePublished: 2013/11/14
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