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To investigate various aspects of the latency of pseudorabies virus in swine (PRV, suid herpesvirus 1) we developed in vitro nucleic acid amplification methods based upon the polymerase chain reaction. Primers flanking a 156-bp region of the pseudorabies virus gp II gene were annealed to purified PRV DNA as well as DNA isolated from the trigeminal ganglia of swine latently infected with PRV and subjected to PCR amplification. Following amplification, 100 fg of PRV DNA was visualizable on stained gels and 1 fg (equivalent to 6 viral genome copies) was detectable when amplification was combined with blot hybridization. PRV-specific DNA sequences which remained undetectable by direct blot hybridization assays were amplified to levels visualizable on ethidium-bromide-stained gels in 5 of 5 experimental latently infected animals. In addition, oligonucleotide primers specific for a 223-bp region of the PRV immediate-early gene (IE 180) were capable of amplifying overlapping latency associated transcripts (LATs), via a cDNA intermediate, in 6 of 6 latently infected swine. These nucleic acid amplification methods should be applicable to the investigation of PRV latency, and gene expression during latency and reactivation, in which few cells harbor latent virus.
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PMID:Enzymatic amplification of latent pseudorabies virus nucleic acid sequences. 165 80

A reverse transcription (RT) multiplex polymerase chain reaction (PCR) assay was developed to allow rapid, sensitive and simultaneous detection of enteroviral RNA and herpesviral DNA specific sequences in a single tube. The method involves a reverse transcription step followed by a multiplex nested PCR in which the combination of primers amplifies cDNA from enteroviruses and specific herpesviruses DNA. Nested amplification utilises primers designed to anneal into the amplification product from the first reaction. Individual viruses were then detected and differentiated by the size of their PCR products determined using ethidium bromide stained agarose gels. To exclude false negatives due to sample inhibitors an internal amplification control, a cloned fragment of DNA from Pseudorabies virus (PRV DNA) was included in the reaction mixture. Detection levels between 0.01 and 0.001 TCID50 of prototype strains of Polio and Coxsackie type B viruses and between 1 and 100 molecules of cloned-DNA of herpesviruses prototype strains were achieved. The RT multiplex PCR method proved capable of detecting enteroviral RNA or herpesviral DNA in cerebro spinal fluid (CSF) samples from patients with aetiologically well characterized encephalitis or aseptic meningitis.
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PMID:Detection of enteroviral RNA and specific DNA of herpesviruses by multiplex genome amplification. 922 Mar 89