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Identification of Bacterial Pathogens
basic skills in diagnostic bacteriology
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Identification of Microorganisms
• For many students and professionals the most pressing topic in microbiology is how to identify unknown specimens.
• Why is this important?
• Labs can grow, isolate and identify most routinely encountered bacteria within 48 hrs of sampling.
• The methods microbiologist use fall into three categories: ♣Phenotypic- morphology (micro and
macroscopic) ♣Immunological- serological analysis ♣Genotypic- genetic techniques
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Microbe Identification
• The successful identification of microbe depends on:
♥Using the proper aseptic techniques.
♥Correctly obtaining the specimen.
♥Correctly handling the specimen
♥Quickly transporting the specimen to the lab.
♥Once the specimen reaches the lab it is cultured and identified.
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Microbe Identification
• Identification measures include: ♣ Microscopy (staining)
♣ growth on enrichment, selective, differential or characteristic media
♣ specimen biochemical test (rapid test methods)
♣ immunological techniques
♣ molecular (genotypic) methods.
• After the microbe is identified for clinical samples it is used in susceptibility tests to find which method of control is most effective.
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Microbe Identification
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Specimen Collection
• Successful identification depends on how the specimen is collected, handled and stored.
• It is important that general aseptic procedures be used including sterile sample containers and sampling methods to prevent contamination of the specimen.
• E.g. Throat and nasopharyngeal swabs should not touch the cheek, tongue or salvia.
• What other precautions must be taken when collecting specimens?
• After collection the specimen must be taken promptly to the lab and stored appropriately (e.g. refrigeration).
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Specimen Collection
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Phenotypic Methods of Identification
• Microbiologists use 5 basic techniques to grow, examine and characterize microorganisms in the lab.
• They are called the 5 ‘I’s: inoculation, incubation, isolation, inspection and identification.
• Inoculation: to culture microorganisms a tiny sample (inoculum) is introduced into medium (inoculation).
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Phenotypic methods of Identification
• Incubation: once the media is inoculated it is incubated which means putting the culture in a controlled environment (incubation) to allow for multiplication.
• After incubation the organisms are inspected and identified phenotypically, immunologically or genetically.
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isolation
inoculation
incubation
Specimen collection
inspection
identification
5 “I” s
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Phenotypic Methods • ‘Old fashioned’ methods via biochemical,
serological and morphological are still used to identify many microorganisms.
• Phenotypic Methods
• Microscopic Morphology include a combination of cell shape, size, Gram stain, acid fast rxn, special structures e.g. endospores, granule and capsule can be used to give an initial putative identification.
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Phenotypic Methods
• Macroscopic morphology are traits that can be accessed with the naked eye e.g. appearance of colony including texture, shape, pigment, speed of growth and growth pattern in broth.
• Physiology/Biochemical characteristic are traditional mainstay of bacterial identification.
• These include enzymes (catalase, oxidase, decarboxylase), fermentation of sugars, capacity to digest or metabolize complex polymers and sensitivity to drugs can be used in identification.
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Microscopy
• Magnification – enhancement of size using ocular and objective lenses.
• Ocular: eyepiece (10X)
• Objective: 4X – 100X
– allows for visualization of bacteria, fungi, and parasites, not viruses
• Resolution – ability to distinguish two objects as distinct
– resolving power is closest distance between two objects
– immersion oil is added when using 100X objective to prevent light scatter
• Contrast – use stains to enhance visualization; allow organism to stand out
from background
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Staining techniques by
Grams Method • make slide by smear, drop, or
cytocentrifuge
• dry, then fix by heat (flame, 10 min at
60ºC) or fix by methanol (95% 1min)
• Gram stain
– Crystal violet: primary stain
– Gram’s iodine: mordant/fixative
– Acetone-ethanol: decolorizer
– Safranin: counterstain
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http://www.sp.uconn.edu/~terry/229sp02/lectures/Lect2.html
Bacteria differ as per structure
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Gram Staining Procedure
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Gm+ve cocci & Gm-ve bacilli
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Streptococcus
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Bacilli
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Neisseria gonorrhea - Gram stain
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Wound specimen - Gram stain
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Oral specimen - Gram stain
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Sputum specimen Gram stain—Streptococcus pneumoniae
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Sputum—cystic fibrosis patient, encapsulated gram negative rods
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Staining techniques for
Mycobacterial spp • Acid-fast stains
– for staining of organisms with high degree of fatty (mycolic) acids—waxy
– render the cells resistant to decolorization: “acid-fast”
– Mycobacterium sp., Nocardia sp., Cryptosporidium sp. are acid-fast
– Procedure • Ziehl-Neelsen: heat drives in primary stain (carbolfuchsin)
• Kinyoun: higher conc. of phenol does not require heat
• Decolorize with acid-alcohol
• Counterstain with methylene blue or malachite green
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Ziehl-Neelsen stain
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How the Acid fast bacteria appear
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A Gram stain (left) of the abscess shows thin, gram positive rods in chains.
An acid fast stain (right) was also positive.
http://pathhsw5m54.ucsf.edu/overview/bacteria3.html
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Sputum specimen—Acid fast stain
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Acid fast stain demonstrating chording
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Fluorochrome AFB Microscopy
* More rapid and sensitive
* Specificity : same with sufficient expérience
* Equipment cost , bulbs, technical demands
* for busy labs
* External quality assessment should be done if this method is performed
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Direct Fluorescent Antibodies
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Indirect Fluorescent Antibodies
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Mycobacterium – auramine stain
http://www.lung.ca/tb/abouttb/what/causes_tb.html
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Yeast—calcofluor white
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Influenza virus infected cells, fluorescent antibody stain
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Better Use Microscopy • Phase Contrast Microscopy
– shift in light allows visualization of organism; can visualize viable organisms
• Fluorescent Microscopy – certain dyes (fluorochromes) give off light when
excited (fluorescence)
– color of light depends on the dye and the filters used
– Staining techniques • Fluorochroming: direct chemical interaction with organism
– Acridine orange: stains nucleic acid; useful for cell-wall deficient organisms
– Auramine-rhodamine: bind to mycolic acids in nearly all Mycobacteria
– Calcoflour white: binds to chitin in cell walls of fungi
• Immunofluorescence: fluorochrome is bound to an antibody; can detect/identify specific organisms
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Culture and isolation of bacteria
• Principles of Cultivation
– Nutritional requirements
• General concepts
– non-fastidious: simple requirements for growth
– fastidious: complex, unusual, or unique
requirements for growth
• Phases of growth media
– solid agar; boil to dissolve, solidifies at
50ºC
– liquid, broth
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• Media classifications and functions –Enrichment
• used to enhance growth of specific organisms
–Supportive • support growth of most non-fastidious
organisms
–Selective • contains agents that inhibit the growth of all
agents except that being sought (dyes, bile salts, alcohols, acids, antibiotics)
–Differential • contains factor(s) that allow certain
organisms to exhibit different metabolic characteristics
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According to Use • Enriched Medium –
broth or solid, contains rich supply of special nutrients that promotes growth of a particular organism while not promoting growth of other microbes that may be present (e.g BAP & chocolate agar)
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• Types of artificial media – Brain-heart infusion
• nutritionally rich supportive media used in broths, blood culture systems and susceptibility testing
– Sheep blood agar • supportive media containing 5% sheep blood for
visualization of hemolysis
– Chocolate agar • same as sheep blood agar except blood has been
“chocolatized” RBCs lysed by heating; releases X (hemin) and V (NAD) factors for Neisseria and Haemophilus
– MacConkey agar • selective for Gram-negative rods (GNRs)
because of crystal violet and bile salts; differential due to lactose, fermenters lower pH changing neutral red indicator pink/red
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According to Use
• Selective Medium - contains inhibitors that discourage the growth of certain organisms & enhances the growth of the microbe sought (e.g. SSA, Mannitol Salt Agar)
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According to Use
• Differential Medium - contains dyes, indicators or other constituents that give colonies of particular organisms distinctive and easily recognizable characteristics (e.g. McConkey Agar)
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Hemolysis a guiding factor
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Hemolysis a guiding factor
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Enriched Media
Blood agar plate with bacteria from human throat. This media differentiates among different colonies by appearance
Chocolate agar, a medium that gets brown from heated blood. Used for isolation of N. gonorrhea.
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Testing for Bacitracin and Optochin Sensitivity
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Mac Conkey Agar a Minimal differentiating Medium
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MacConkey Agar
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General vs Selective Media
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Differential Media
• Differential media grow several types of organisms and display visible differences among organisms.
• Differences may show up as colony size, media colour, gas bubble formation and precipitate formation.
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Salmonella-Shigella Agar
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• Types of artificial media – Hektoen enteric agar
• contains bile salts and dyes (bromothymol blue and acid fuchsin) to inhibit non-pathogenic GNRs; non pathogens ferment lactose changing BTB to orange; pathogens Salmonella and Shigella are clear; ferric ammonium citrate detects H2S production of Salmonella (black colonies)
– Columbia colistin-nalidixic acid (CNA) agar
• Columbia agar base, sheep blood, colistin and nalidixic acid; selective isolation of gram-positive cocci
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• Types of artificial media – Hektoen enteric agar
• contains bile salts and dyes (bromothymol blue and acid fuchsin) to inhibit non-pathogenic GNRs; non pathogens ferment lactose changing BTB to orange; pathogens Salmonella and Shigella are clear; ferric ammonium citrate detects H2S production of Salmonella (black colonies)
– Columbia colistin-nalidixic acid (CNA) agar
• Columbia agar base, sheep blood, colistin and nalidixic acid; selective isolation of gram-positive cocci
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Types of artificial media
– Thayer-Martin agar • CAP with antibiotics (colistin inhibits gram
neg, vancomycin inhibits gram pos, nystatin inhibits yeast); for N. gonorrhoeae and N. meningitidis; Martin-Lewis has similar function but different antibiotics
• Preparation of artificial media – Sterilization
• autoclave: pressurized steam at 121ºC for 15-30 min.
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• Environmental requirements – Oxygen and Carbon dioxide availability
• aerobic: room air
• facultative: aerobic or anaerobic
• microaerophilic: reduced oxygen tension
• anaerobic – strict or aerotolerant
• capnophilic: increased C02 (5-10%)
– Temperature • 35-37ºC
• 30ºC
• cold
• 42ºC
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• Bacterial Cultivation – Isolation of bacteria from specimens
• streaking for isolation
• streaking for quantitation
– Evaluation of colony morphologies • Type of media supporting growth
• Relative quantities of each colony type
• Colony characteristics – colony form: pinpoint, circular, filamentous,
irregular
– colony elevation: flat, raised, convex
– colony margin: smooth, irregular
• Gram stain and subcultures – sterile loop, isolated colonies
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Chocolate agar
Uninoculated Haemophilus
http://www.hardydiagnostics.com/catalog2/hugo/ChocolateAgar.htm
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MacConkey agar
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Hektoen agar
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• Nutritional requirements and metabolic capabilities
– Single enzyme tests • Catalase: H2O2 + catalase = O2 and H20;
differentiates Staphylococcus v. Streptococcus, Listeria and Corynebacterium v. other non spore forming gram-positive bacilli
• Oxidase: detection of cytochrome oxidase that participates in nitrate metabolism; Pseudomonas, Aeromonas, Neisseria
• Indole: tryptophanase degrades tryptophan into pyruvic acid, ammonia, and indole; indole is detected by aldehyde indicator; presumptive id for E. coli
• Urease: hydrolyzes urea into ammonia, water and CO2; increase pH changes causes bright pink color of indicator
• PYR: hydrolysis of PYR, indicator turns pink; Group A Strep and enterococci are +
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Biochemical Tests
• The microbe is cultured in a media with a special substrate and tested for an end product.
• Prominent biochemical tests include carbohydrate fermentation, acid or gas production and the hydrolysis of gelatin or starch.
• Many of these test in rapid miniaturized system that can detect for 23 characteristics in small cups called Rapid test.
• The info from the rapid test are input into a computer to help in identification of the organisms.
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Carbohydrate Fermentation
. This medium show fermentation (acid production) and gas formation.
The small Durham tube for collecting gas bubbles.
Left- right:
Uninoculated negative control
Centre, positive for acid (yellow) and gas (open space).
Growth but no gas or acid.
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Methyl Red Test • This is a qualitative
test for acid production.
• The bacteria is grown in MR-VP broth.
• After addition of several drops of methyl red solution a bright red colour is positive and yellow-orange negative.
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Nitrate Reduction ♫After 24-48 hrs of incubation, nitrate reagents are added.
♫Left to right: ♫Gas formation (positive
for nitrate reduction).
♫positive for nitrate reduction to nitrite ( red colour).
♫Negative control
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Biochemical Tests • Other biochemical tests of interest include:
H2S production
Indole test
Oxidase test
Oxidation fermentation
Phenylalanine deaminase test
Antibiotic susceptibility tests
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Coagulase Test
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–Tests for presence of metabolic pathways
• Oxidation and fermentation: oxidation of glucose requires oxygen, fermentation does not; pH decreases causing yellow color
• Amino acid degradation: detection of amino acid decarboxylase enzymes
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O-F glucose media
http://academic.mwsc.edu/jcbaker/bio390sec01/bio390_laboratory_study_images.htm
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Differential Media
Chromagar
Chromagar orientation uses colour-formation to distinguish at least 7 common urinary pathogens.
This allow for rapid identification and treatment.
The bacteria were streaked as to spell their names.
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• Principles of Phenotype-based ID schemes
– Selection and inoculation of ID test battery • Type of bacteria to be identified • Clinical significance of isolate • Availability of reliable testing methods
– Incubation for substrate utilization • Conventional ID • Rapid ID
– Detection of metabolic activity • Colorimetry: pH change of indicators • Fluorescence: release of fluorophore from substrate or
changes in fluorescence due to pH changes • Turbiditiy: growth or no-growth
– Analysis of metabolic profiles • ID databases • Use of databases to ID unknowns
– Confidence in ID
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Rapid Tests
• Rapid test: a biochemical system for the identification of Enterobacteriaceae and other Gram –ve bacteria.
• It consist of plastic strips with 20 μl of dehydrated biochemical substrates used to detect biochemical characteristics.
• The biochemical substrates are inoculated with pure cultures and suspended in physiological saline.
• After 5 hrs-overnight the 20 tests are converted to 7-9 digital profile.
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Rapid Tests
ONPG (β galactosidase); ADH (arginine dihydrolase); LDC (lysine decarboxylase); ODC (ornithine decarboxylase); CIT (citrate utilization); H2S (hydrogen disulphide production); URE (urease); TDA ( tryptophan deaminase); IND (indole production); VP (Voges Proskauer test for acetoin); GEL ( gelatin liquefaction); the fermentation of glucose (GLU), mannitol (MAN), inositol (INO), sorbitol (SOR), rhamnose (RHA), sucrose (SAC); Melibiose (MEL), amygdalin (AMY), and arabinose (ARA); and OXI (oxidase).
positive
negative
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Bacteriophage Typing
• What are bacteriophages? • Bacteriophage typing is based on the specificity of
phage surface receptor for the cell surface receptor. • Only those phages that can attach to the surface
receptors can cause lysis. • The procedure involves: • A plate is heavily inoculated so that there is no
uninoculated areas. • The plate is marked off in squares (15-20 mm) and
each square inoculated with a drop of suspension for different phages.
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Heavily Inoculated Plate
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Bacteriophage Typing
• The plate is incubated for 24 hrs then observed for plaques.
• The phage type is reported as a specific genus and species followed by the types that can infect the bacterium.
• E.g. 10/16/24 means that the bacteria is sensitive to phages 10, 16 and 24.
• Phage tying remain a tool for research and reference labs.
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Uncultivable Organisms
• Environmental researchers estimate that < 1% of microorganisms are culturable and therefore it is not possible to use phenotypic methods of identification.
• These microorganisms are called viable nonculturable (VNC).
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Flow Cytometry • Classical techniques are not successful in identification
of those microorganisms that cannot be cultured. • What do is the name of microorganisms that cannot be cultured?
• Flow cytometry allows single or multiple microorganisms detection an easy, reliable and fast way.
• Inflow cytometry microorganisms are identified on the basis of the cytometry parameters or by means of certain dyes called fluorochromes that can be used independently or bound to specific antibodies.
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Flow Cytometry
• The cytometer forces a suspension of cells through a laser beam and measures the light they scatter or the fluorescence the cell emits as they pass through the beam.
• The cytometer also can measure the cell’s shape, size and the content of the DNA or RNA.
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Recent Advances in Flowcytometry
• Flow cytometry (FCM) allows single- or multiple-microbe detection in clinical samples in an easy, reliable, and fast way. Microbes can be identified on the basis of their peculiar cytometry parameters or by means of certain fluorochromes that can be used either independently or bound to specific antibodies or oligonucleotides. FCM has permitted the development of quantitative procedures to assess antimicrobial susceptibility and drug cytotoxicity in a rapid, accurate, and highly reproducible way
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Immunological Methods
• Immunological methods involve the interaction of a microbial antigen with an antibody (produced by the host immune system).
• Testing for microbial antigen or the production of antibodies is often easier than test for the microbe itself.
• Lab kits based on this technique is available for the identification of many microorganisms.
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Principles of Serologic Test Methods
– Methods for antibody detection • Direct whole pathogen agglutination assays
– pos patient sera causes organism to clump
• Particle agglutination tests – latex beads or RBCs coated with Ag
• Flocculation tests – RPR – precipitation of soluble Ag with Ab
» charcoal particles coated with cardiolipin-lecithin binds reagin
• ELISAs
• IFAs – organism/antigen on slides; patient Ab detected with
fluorescent secondary Ab
• Western blots
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API strips – bioMerieux
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Commercial ID systems
– Advantages and examples of commercial systems
• ARIS (Trek)
• MicroScan (Dade-Behring/Seimens)
• Phoenix (Becton-Dickinson)
• Vitek (bioMérieux)
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Immunochemical methods for ID
• Principles of immunochemical methods – Particle agglutination
• Latex agglutination
– Immunofloresecent assays • Direct immunofluorescence assay (DFA)
• Indirect immunofluorescence assay (IFA)
• Enzyme immunoassays
– Solid-phase immunoassays • Membrane bound immunoassays
• Immunochromatographic assays
– Optical immunoassays
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Serologic methods for diagnosis
• Features of the Immune Response
– Characteristics of antibodies • Features of immune response useful in diagnostic
testing – Acute v. anamnestic response
– IgM v. IgG
– IgM can’t cross placenta
– immunocompetent v. immunocompromised
• Interpretation of serologic tests – single v. paired sera; rare pathogen
– 4-fold rise in titer v. qualitative testing
– cross reactivity (herpes viruses, heterophile Abs, pregnancy)
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Principles of Serologic Test Methods
– Methods for antibody detection • Direct whole pathogen agglutination assays
– pos patient sera causes organism to clump
• Particle agglutination tests – latex beads or RBCs coated with Ag
• Flocculation tests – RPR – precipitation of soluble Ag with Ab
» charcoal particles coated with cardiolipin-lecithin binds reagin
• ELISAs
• IFAs – organism/antigen on slides; patient Ab detected with
fluorescent secondary Ab
• Western blots
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Genotypic methods
• Genotypic methods of microbe identification include the use of :
Nucleic acid probes
PCR (RT-PCR, RAPD-PCR)
Nucleic acid sequence analysis
rRNA analysis
RFLP
Plasmid fingerprinting.
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Genotypic Methods • Genotypic methods involve examining the
genetic material of the organisms and has revolutionized bacterial identification and classification.
• Genotypic methods include PCR (RT-PCR, RAPD-PCR),use of nucleic acid probes, RFLP and plasmid fingerprinting.
• Increasingly genotypic techniques are becoming the sole means of identifying many microorganisms because of its speed and accuracy.
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Real Time PCR and RT-PCR
• Currently many PCR tests employ real time PCR.
• This involves the use of fluorescent primers.
• The PCR machine monitors the incorporation of the primers and display an amplification plot which can be viewed continuously thru the PCR cycle.
• Real time PCR yields immediate results.
• Another application of PCR is RT-PCR (reverse trancriptase PCR).
• During RT-PCR an RNA template is used to generate cDNA and from this dsDNA is generated.
• The enzyme used is reverse transciptase.
• RT-PCR is used to detect for HIV and to monitor the progress of the disease.
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RAPD-PCR • Random amplified polymorphic DNA PCR uses a
random primer (10-mer) to generate a DNA profile. • What are random primers?
• The primer anneals to several places on the DNA template and generate a DNA profile which is used for microbe identification.
• RAPD has many advantages: Pure DNA is not needed Less labour intensive than RFLP. There is not need for prior DNA sequence data.
• RAPD has been used to fingerprint the outbreak of Listeria monocytogenes from milk.
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Plasmid fingerprinting
• The procedure involves:
• The bacterial strains are grown, the cells lysed and harvested.
• The plasmids are separated by agarose gel electrophoresis
• The gels are stained with EtBr and the plasmids located and compared.
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Computer and Bacteria Identification
• Computers improve the efficiency of the lab operations and increase the speed and clarity with which results can be reported.
• Computers are also important for the result entry, analysis and preparation.
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