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Abstract

Contagious equine metritis is a bacterial infectious disease of horses caused by , a Gram-negative eubacterium. The disease has been described in several continents, including Europe, North America and Asia. A novel molecular method was developed to detect clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats (CRISPRs), which were separated by non-repetitive unique spacer regions (NRUSRs) of similar length, in the EQ59 strain using a primer pair, f-/r-TeCRISPR-ladder, by PCR amplification. In total, 31 isolates (17 and 14 ) were examined. The isolates came from thoroughbred and cold-blooded horses from nine countries during 1980–1996, whilst the isolates all originated from donkey jacks in France and the USA during 1997–2006. PAGE fractionated all of the 13 CRISPRs separated by 12 NRUSRs in EQ59. Permutation examples of CRISPRs, which were separated by NRUSRs for small-sized ladders, consisting of two doublet bands were shown. Putative CRISPRs separated by NRUSRs were amplified with 14/17 (82.4 %) geographically disparate isolates using the newly designed primer pair. Approximately 82.4 % of the isolates had CRISPRs separated by NRUSRs. The CRISPR locus was also found in the French strain MCE3. Putative CRISPRs separated by NRUSRs were detected similarly in 4/14 (28.6 %) isolates. Overall, a more detailed understanding of the molecular biology of CRISPRs within organisms may help elucidate the pathogenic virulence and transmission mechanisms associated with this important equine pathogen.

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