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J Med Microbiol 55 (2006), 429-436; DOI: 10.1099/jmm.0.46236-0
© 2006 Society for General Microbiology
ISSN 0022-2615

Strain differentiation of Trichophyton rubrum by randomly amplified polymorphic DNA and analysis of rDNA nontranscribed spacer

Lilian Cristiane Baeza, Marcelo Teruyuki Matsumoto, Ana Marisa Fusco Almeida and Maria José Soares Mendes-Giannini

Departamento de Análises Clínicas, Faculdade de Ciêlncias Farmacêuticas, UNESP, Rua Expedicionários do Brasil, 1621, Araraquara, SP, CEP 14801-902, Brazil

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Maria José Soares Mendes-Giannini
giannini{at}fcfar.unesp.br

Received 8 July 2005
Accepted 30 November 2005

Trichophyton rubrum is the most common pathogen causing dermatophytosis. Molecular strain-typing methods have recently been developed to tackle epidemiological questions and the problem of relapse following treatment. A total of 67 strains of T. rubrum were screened for genetic variation by randomly amplified polymorphic DNA (RAPD) analysis, with two primers, 5'-d[GGTGCGGGAA]-3' and 5'-d[CCCGTCAGCA]-3', as well as by subrepeat element analysis of the nontranscribed spacer of rDNA, using the repetitive subelements TRS-1 and TRS-2. A total of 12 individual patterns were recognized with the first primer and 11 with the second. Phylogenetic analysis of the RAPD products showed a high degree of similarity (>90 %) among the epidemiologically related clinical isolates, while the other strains possessed 60 % similarity. Specific amplification of TRS-1 produced three strain-characteristic banding patterns (PCR types); simple patterns representing one copy of TRS-1 and two copies of TRS-2 accounted for around 85 % of all isolates. It is concluded that molecular analysis has important implications for epidemiological studies, and RAPD analysis is especially suitable for molecular typing in T. rubrum.

Abbreviations: NTS, nontranscribed spacer; RAPD, randomly amplified polymorphic DNA.




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