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2004:
Gómez-Couso H; Freire-Santos F; Amar C F L; Grant K A; Williamson K; Ares-Mazás M E; McLauchlin J
Detection of Cryptosporidium and Giardia in molluscan shellfish by multiplexed nested-PCR.
International journal of food microbiology 2004;
91(
3):.
A multiplexed nested-PCR procedure (ABC-PCR) previously developed to detect Cryptosporidium spp. and Giardia duodenalis assemblages A and B in whole human faeces was applied to DNA extracted from filter-feeding molluscs. Species of Cryptosporidium and G. duodenalis were identified by restriction fragment analysis of the PCR products and by DNA sequencing. The extraction and ABC-PCR procedures were shown to be suitable for application to shellfish by amplification of specific target sequences using DNA from Cryptosporidium parvum genotype 2 and G. duodenalis assemblages A and B which were spiked into DNA extracted from mussels. Using 49 molluscan shellfish specimens (18 clam, 22 mussel and 9 oyster samples) from Spain, cryptosporidial oocysts were detected in 56% by immunofluorescence microscopy, and in 44% by ABC-PCR. For detection of Cryptosporidium, there was a significant association, but not total agreement, between the results of microscopy and PCR. G. duodenalis assemblage B was detected from one oyster sample by PCR. Amongst 38 specimens (20 mussel and 18 cockle samples) collected in the UK and tested by the ABC-PCR, G. duodenalis was not detected, and Cryptosporidium was detected in 11% of the samples. Overall, the 26 samples where Cryptosporidium was detected, C. hominis/C. parvum genotype 1 was detected in 1, C. parvum genotype 2 in 22, and the remaining three samples contained either sequences similar to C. parvum genotype 2 or heterogeneous mixtures of Cryptosporidium species. There was no significant association between the level of Escherichia coli detected by conventional microbiological methods and the presence of Cryptosporidium detected by ABC-PCR.
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