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Volume 56, Issue 9

Detection of mixed clarithromycin-resistant and -susceptible using nested PCR and direct sequencing of DNA extracted from faeces No Access

Abstract

The major cause of chemotherapy failure in patients with chronic gastritis and peptic ulcers caused by is clarithromycin (CAM) resistance due to a mutation in the 23S rRNA gene. This study describes a non-invasive and accurate method for the detection of mixed CAM-resistant and -susceptible by sequencing of the 23S rRNA gene. Faeces were crushed with beads and the 23S rRNA gene was amplified using a nested PCR on the extracted DNA. Mutation analysis of this gene using this method showed that 20.4 % of patients carried mixed CAM-susceptible (wild type) and -resistant (A2142G or A2143G mutant) . Furthermore, it was found that 66.6 % of patients who had been treated unsuccessfully carried one of these mutations in the 23S rRNA gene (including the mixed type), whilst standard culture detected CAM-resistant isolates in only 22.2 % of patients with unsuccessful treatment. These data suggest that, for successful therapy, the diagnosis method described here would more accurately detect CAM-resistant , including mixed infections.

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Keyword(s): CAM, clarithromycin and HpSA, H. pylori stool antigen
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Detection of mixed clarithromycin-resistant and -susceptible Helicobacter pylori using nested PCR and direct sequencing of DNA extracted from faeces
J. Med. Microbiol. 56, 1174 (2007); https://doi.org/10.1099/jmm.0.47302-0
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