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Volume 67, Issue 4

Detection of in heart valve sections by fluorescence hybridization Free

Abstract

Infective endocarditis is a severe and potentially fatal disease. Nearly a third of all cases remain culture-negative, making a targeted and effective antibiotic therapy of patients challenging. In the past years, fluorescence hybridization (FISH) has proven its value for the diagnosis of infective endocarditis, particularly when it is caused by fastidious bacteria. To increase the number of infective endocarditis causing agents, which can be identified by FISH, we designed and optimized a FISH-probe for the specific detection of in heart valve tissue.

Even with specific probes the detection and identification of bacteria can be complicated by the high autofluorescence due to calcification of the analysed tissue. To overcome this problem, we developed a protocol to detect by hybridizing, stripping and reprobing the identical section with different species-specific probes repeatedly.

The newly designed specific FISH probe and the developed protocol exemplarily allowed us to unequivocally identify in tissue sections of a patient with infective endocarditis.

This method provides an add-on to existing protocols for the unambiguous diagnosis of bacteria directly within tissues or other difficult tissue samples in cases with small sample size and limited sections.

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Keyword(s): Coxiella , FISH and infective endocarditis
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Detection of Coxiella burnetii in heart valve sections by fluorescence in situ hybridization
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