Abstract
A rapid and accurate diagnosis of mixed viral infections is important for providing timely therapeutic interventions. The aim of this study was to develop a highly sensitive and specific method for the simultaneous detection of canine distemper virus (CDV), canine parvovirus (CPV) and canine coronavirus (CCV) in mixed infections by combining the high specificity of a dual priming oligonucleotide (DPO) primer system with the high sensitivity of a nanoparticle-assisted PCR (nanoPCR) assay. Under the optimised assay conditions, the multiplex DPO-nanoPCR assay developed using DPO primers was 100-fold more sensitive than the multiplex PCR assay using conventional primers. The detection limits of the multiplex DPO-nanoPCR assay for the recombinant plasmids containing the cloned CDV, CPV and CCV target sequences were 5.4 × 102, 6.5 × 102 and 1.6 × 102 copies in a 25 μL assay, respectively. No cross-reaction with other canine viruses was observed. This is the first reported use of a multiplex nanoPCR assay with the DPO primer system for the simultaneous detection of CDV, CPV and CCV in mixed infections. The high sensitivity and specificity of the assay indicated its potential for use in clinical diagnosis and field surveillance of animal epidemics.
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