Background: American Foulbrood (AFB) is a devastating disease of honey bee () larvae caused by the spore-forming, Gram-positive bacterium . In most countries, the law requires mandatory reporting of AFB to the veterinary authority.
Aim And Methods: To speed up detection and genotyping of spores, we compared different culturing protocols on Columbia sheep blood agar and developed a new multiplex quantitative polymerase chain reaction to distinguish between the two relevant genotypes enterobacterial repetitive intergenic consensus (ERIC) I and ERIC II.
Results And Conclusion: As confirmed by reference strains and field isolates, the new identification and genotyping protocol halves the time of current workflows, lessens labor-intension, allows a higher throughput of samples for monitoring, and permits a faster intervention to prevent the spread of AFB.
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Guangdong Medical Laboratory Animal Center, Guangdong Provincial People's Hospital (Guangdong Academy of Medical Sciences), Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, China.
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Parasite
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Université de Franche-Comté, CNRS, Chrono-environnement, 25000 Besançon, France.
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Facultad de Ciencias de La Salud, Carrera de Medicina Veterinaria, Universidad de Las Américas (UDLA), Antigua Vía a Nayón S/N, Quito EC 170124, Ecuador.
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Kashkin Research Institute of Medical Mycology, North-Western State Medical University Named after I.I. Mechnikov, 191015 Saint Petersburg, Russia.
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Department of Microbiology, Yenepoya Medical College, (Deemed to be University), Mangalore, Karnataka, India.
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Materials And Methods: Patients with chronic and recurrent dermatophytosis were enrolled, and conventional fungal cultures were conducted on skin scrapings.
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