Laboratory Medicine ›› 2019, Vol. 34 ›› Issue (1): 56-59.DOI: 10.3969/j.issn.1673-8640.2019.01.012

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Preliminary application of visual LAMP in detecting drug resistant gene blaKPC-2 of carbapenem resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae

ZOU Ping, BAO Junfeng, ZANG Jia, ZHANG Ting, XU Yaohui()   

  1. Wuxi Maternal and Child Health Hospital,Nanjing Medical University,Wuxi 214000,Jiangsu,China
  • Received:2017-07-11 Online:2019-01-30 Published:2019-01-29

Abstract:

Objective To establish a method for detecting drug resistant gene blaKPC-2 of carbapenem resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae by visual loop-mediated isothermal amplification (LAMP). Methods A total of 3 pairs of specific LAMP primers were designed,and the LAMP detection system of 25 μL was established and optimized. The specificity and sensitivity were compared with those of polymerase chain reaction (PCR). Results A method for detecting drug resistant gene blaKPC-2 of carbapenem resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae by visual LAMP was established,which was used in the rapid detection of blaKPC-2 at 63 ℃ for 40 min. The specificity was close to that of PCR,and the sensitivity was higher than that of PCR for 10 times. There were 12 isolates detected with blaKPC-2 by LAMP among 25 imipenem,meropenem or ertapenem resistant isolates,and there were 5 isolates detected with blaKPC-2 by LAMP among 31 imipenem,meropenem and ertapenem resistant isolates(P=0.009 9). Conclusions The established LAMP could be used as a method to detect blaKPC-2,but it could not replace drug susceptibility test in vitro.

Key words: Loop-mediated isothermal amplification, Klebsiella pneumoniae, Carbapenem resistance, blaKPC-2

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