Abstract
A rapid method for the detection of hog cholera virus (HCV) in infected tissues, using polymerase chain reaction (PCR) was developed. Total RNA isolated from HCV-infected tissues was reverse transcribed with AMV reversé transcriptase and the resulting complementary DNA was amplified by Taq DNA polymerase in the presence of two HCV-specific primers. The amplified DNA fragment was detected by agarose gel electrophoresis. The sensitivity of this method was at 104 TCID50 of HCV. The sensitivity increased approximately 1000-fold when the DNA was reamplified with a set of nested primers. DNA sequencing analysis of the PCR products revealed that the HCV sequence amplified from a local field isolate was highly homologous to the HCV Alfort strain. This method may be useful for pathological and epidemiological studies of HCV in pigs.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 227-236 |
| Number of pages | 10 |
| Journal | Journal of Virological Methods |
| Volume | 35 |
| Issue number | 2 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - 1991 |
Keywords
- Hog cholera virus
- Polymerase chain reaction