2010
DOI: 10.1007/s00284-010-9781-4
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Identification of Pythium insidiosum by Nested PCR in Cutaneous Lesions of Brazilian Horses and Rabbits

Abstract: Pythium insidiosum is a fungus-like organism present in subtropical and tropical areas, such as Brazil, known to infect humans and various animal species. P. insidiosum is the etiological agent of pythiosis, an emerging and granulomatous disease characterized mainly by cutaneous and subcutaneous lesions in horses, the principal species affected. Accurate diagnosis of pythiosis and identification of its causal agent by microbiological and serological tests can be often difficult and inconclusive principally for… Show more

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“…(Pereira et al 2007). Adicionalmente, realizou-se caracterização molecular (PCR) nos tecidos, segundo Botton et al (2011), com primer especíϐico para P. insidiosum.…”
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“…(Pereira et al 2007). Adicionalmente, realizou-se caracterização molecular (PCR) nos tecidos, segundo Botton et al (2011), com primer especíϐico para P. insidiosum.…”
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“…The current diagnostic modalities, including culture identification (9)(10)(11), serodiagnosis (12)(13)(14)(15)(16)(17)(18)(19)(20)(21)(22), and molecular-based detection (22)(23)(24)(25)(26)(27), are fraught with problems. For example, culture identification is time-consuming and often fails to grow and to identify the organism.…”
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“…Previously, SILVA et al (2010) used this technique to confirm the fungal etiology of conidiobolomycosis in ovine. Several authors have suggested the use of molecular biology assays to search DNA sequences of conserved genes in fungal samples, including polymerase chain reaction (PCR) and DNA sequencing of intergenic regions (internal transcribed spacer, ITS) and ribosomal DNA units (18S, 5.8S and 28S rDNA) (DE PAULA et al, 2010;BOTTON et al, 2011;SILVEIRA et al, 2013). DE PAULA et al (2010) andSILVEIRA et al (2013) proposed the use of PCR to amplify the 18S rDNA region of pathogenic Conidiobolus.…”
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