Molecular detection of pre-ribosomal RNAs of Mycobacterium bovis bacille Calmette-Guérin and Mycobacterium tuberculosis to enhance pre-clinical tuberculosis drug and vaccine development.
Diagn Microbiol Infect Dis
; 108(1): 116106, 2024 Jan.
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ABSTRACT
Efforts are underway globally to develop effective vaccines and drugs against M. tuberculosis (Mtb) to reduce the morbidity and mortality of tuberculosis. Improving detection of slow-growing mycobacteria could simplify and accelerate efficacy studies of vaccines and drugs in animal models and human clinical trials. Here, a real-time reverse transcription PCR (RT-PCR) assay was developed to detect pre-ribosomal RNA (pre-rRNA) of Mycobacterium bovis bacille Calmette-Guérin (BCG) and Mtb. This pre-rRNA biomarker is indicative of bacterial viability. In two different mouse models, the presence of pre-rRNA from BCG and Mtb in ex vivo tissues showed excellent agreement with slower culture-based colony-forming unit assays. The addition of a brief nutritional stimulation prior to molecular viability testing further differentiated viable but dormant mycobacteria from dead mycobacteria. This research has set the stage to evaluate pre-rRNA as a BCG and/or Mtb infection biomarker in future drug and vaccine clinical studies.
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Assunto principal:
Tuberculose
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Mycobacterium bovis
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Mycobacterium tuberculosis
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Animals
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Humans
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En
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Diagn Microbiol Infect Dis
Ano de publicação:
2024
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Article
País de afiliação:
Estados Unidos