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Identification of P1 types and variants of during an epidemic in Chile Free

Abstract

This study was conducted to determine the types of prevalent in adults presenting with community-acquired pneumonia during an epidemic period, and to scrutinize a variable region of the RepMP4 element for the detection of P1 variants. All 23 clinical specimens PCR-positive for obtained in two hospitals in Santiago, Chile, from 2005 to 2006 were typed by a multiplex PCR directly and then the RepMP4 fragment of 18 specimens was sequenced. A predominance of type 2 was found, 18 (78.3 %) specimens being grouped as type 2 and 5 (21.7 %) as type 1. Co-infection of with other respiratory pathogens was found in 10/23 (43.4 %) patients, but their frequency was not related to the type. Sequence analysis revealed a single nucleotide polymorphism, a transition mutation, in 50 % of amplicons belonging to type 1 and in 71.4 % of amplicons of type 2. The nucleotide changes were synonymous in each P1 variant. In conclusion, during the 2005–2006 epidemic in Santiago, both types of circulated. Although the analysed area in the RepMP4 was small, we detected the existence of P1 variants in the two types of this organism.

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Keyword(s): CAP, community-acquired pneumonia and SNP, single nucleotide polymorphism
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Identification of P1 types and variants of Mycoplasma pneumoniae during an epidemic in Chile
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