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摘要
Streptococcus suis (S. suis for short) can cause a variety of infections in pigs, and the infections have brought about great losses in the swine industry and some cases of deaths in human beings. In order to rapidly diagnose and control the infections of S. suis, we designed a pyrosequencing-based assay to identify the serotypes of S. suis. In the assay, pyrosequencing is used to genotype most of the pathogenic serotypes of S. suis by detecting five informative regions on the Chaperonin 60 (cpn60) gene and one species-specific region on the 16S rRNA gene, and further a few undistinguished serotypes by pyrosequencing were finely discriminated by multiplex PCR of serotype-specific fragments on the cps gene as well as species-specific fragments on the 16S rRNA gene. Through carefully designing the dispensing order of dNTP for each pyrosequencing reaction, the serotypes of S. suis could be discriminated by four pyrosequencing reactions within three hours. Five reference serotypes and three clinical strains were successfully detected and genotyped by our assay. The results indicated that our assay is a reliable, information-rich diagnostic method for the accurate detection of S. suis serotypes.
