Rapid, inexpensive method for specific detection of microbial beta-lactamases by detection of fluorescent end products.
AUTOR(ES)
Chen, K C
RESUMO
A rapid method was developed for specific detection of microbial beta-lactamases which uses ampicillin and cephalexin as substrates. The end products (open beta-lactam ring forms) generated after separately incubating either substrate with beta-lactamase-producing organisms initially were separated from the unhydrolyzed substrates by high-voltage electrophoresis at pH 2.1. The end products of both antibiotics were highly fluorescent and could be analyzed visually and semiquantitatively under a long-wave UV lamp. Application of 5 microliters of the same incubation mixture onto filter paper without subsequent electrophoretic separation also resulted in development of fluorescence after brief heating at 120 degrees C for 5 min. This spot test differentiates penicillinase activity from cephalosporinase activity and distinguishes between beta-lactamase and acylase activities, since the end products of acylase [the common side chain, D(-)-alpha-aminophenylacetic acid, and the intact beta-lactam nuclei, 6-aminopenicillanic acid and 7-aminodeacetoxycephalosporanic acid] are not fluorescent. This method was relatively rapid, inexpensive, and more sensitive than the chromogenic cephalosporin (nitrocefin) method when 21 strains of 7 gram-positive species and 77 strains of 29 gram-negative species of bacteria were tested.
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