Genotypic characterization of psittacid herpesvirus isolates from Brazil
AUTOR(ES)
Luppi, Marcela Miranda, Luiz, Ana Paula Moreira Franco, Coelho, Fabiana Magalhães, Ecco, Roselene, Fonseca, Flávio Guimarães da, Resende, Mauricio
FONTE
Braz. J. Microbiol.
DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO
2016-03
RESUMO
Abstract Thirty-six isolates of psittacid herpesvirus (PsHV), obtained from 12 different species of psittacids in Brazil, were genotypically characterized by restriction fragment length polymorphism (RFLP) analysis and PCR amplification. RFLP analysis with the PstI enzyme revealed four distinct restriction patterns (A1, X, W and Y), of which only A1 (corresponding to PsHV-1) had previously been described. To study PCR amplification patterns, six pairs of primers were used. Using this method, six variants were identified, of which, variants 10, 8, and 9 (in this order) were most prevalent, followed by variants 1, 4, and 5. It was not possible to correlate the PCR and RFLP patterns. Twenty-nine of the 36 isolates were shown to contain a 419 bp fragment of the UL16 gene, displaying high similarity to the PsHV-1 sequences available in GenBank. Comparison of the results with the literature data suggests that the 36 Brazilian isolates from this study belong to genotype 1 and serotype 1.
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