Identification of Bacteria by Polymerase Chain Reaction Followed by Liquid Chromatography−Mass Spectrometry
- 3 June 2005
- journal article
- Published by American Chemical Society (ACS) in Analytical Chemistry
- Vol. 77 (14) , 4563-4570
- https://doi.org/10.1021/ac050378l
Abstract
Bloodstream infections are an important cause of serious morbidity and mortality. Rapid detection and identification of specific pathogens from blood or other clinical specimens could improve the rational use of antimicrobial therapy in clinical medicine and have a great impact on the outcome of patients with systemic infections. Polymerase chain reaction using generic primers was used to amplify genomic DNA of different bacterial strains. The identification was accomplished by measuring the molecular masses of the PCR products using ion-pair reversed-phase high-performance liquid chromatography hyphenated to electrospray ionization mass spectrometry. DNA from 10 bacterial species was amplified by PCR, and the resulting amplification products were analyzed. In all cases, the measured molecular masses of the PCR products matched the theoretical value for the species-specific DNA sequence. However, three pairs of bacteria could not be distinguished since the theoretical difference in amplicon molecular mass was Staphylococcus aureus spiked into human plasma.Keywords
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