Genetic Variability and Molecular Epidemiology of Respiratory Syncytial Virus Subgroup A Strains in Japan Determined by Heteroduplex Mobility Assay
AUTOR(ES)
Kuroiwa, Yuki
FONTE
American Society for Microbiology
RESUMO
We used heteroduplex mobility assay (HMA) to determine the genetic variability of 118 respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) field isolates from 19 epidemics occurring in a Japanese urban area between 1980 and 2000. Nucleotides 1 to 584 of the attachment G glycoprotein gene were amplified by reverse transcription-PCR, and the PCR amplicons were analyzed by HMA by using the earliest isolate from 1980 as the reference throughout. We also performed PCR-restriction fragment length polymorphism (RFLP) analysis and phylogenetic analysis on the same nucleotide sequence. PCR-RFLP revealed 9 patterns, whereas HMA produced 31 distinct patterns. The RFLP patterns were divided into two to seven distinct HMA genotypes. Field strains with similar degrees of G gene nucleotide differences from the reference strain often showed distinct HMA types. The RSV genetic heterogeneity detected by direct sequencing of the PCR amplicon was usually identical to HMA analysis. Analysis of the molecular epidemiology of RSV subgroup A isolates obtained by HMA showed that new RSV variants emerged with each epidemic and that previously dominant variants seldom recurred in subsequent epidemics. HMA is useful in detecting genetic variants of RSV subgroup A and has some advantages over other conventional methods.
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