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What are the main bacteria associated with periodontal disease?

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  • Porphyromonas gingivalis
  • Actinobacillus actinomycetemcomitans
  • Prevotella intermedia
  • Bacteroides forsythus
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What are the main bacteria associated with dental caries?

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  • Streptococcus mutans
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What are the main bacteria associated with root canal infections?

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  • Porphyromonas endodontalis
  • Fusobacterium nucleatum
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What are the two bacterial detection methods?

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  • Microbiological culture
  • Molecular biological
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What is the microbiological culture method?

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  • Vortex mix sample for 30 seconds to get homogenous suspension of bacteria
  • Serial dilute samples in FAB (fastidious anaerobe broth) to 10-^6
  • Spiral plate to agar media using either;
    a - Fastidious anaerobe agar (FAA) + 7.5% defibrinated horse blood
    b - same as a but supplemented with vancomycin for gram-negative anaerobes
  • Incubate anaerobically for 10 days
  • Obtain total bacterial counts
  • Can then sub culture specific bacteria on separate agar medium
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What are the two molecular biological methods?

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  • Use DNA probes
  • Polymerase chain reaction (PCR)
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Why might we want to use vancomycin supplement when looking for oral disease?

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  • Vancomycin is a selective agent for gram-negative anaerobes
  • Many oral disease are caused by gram- negative anaerobes so look for these spdecifically
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Why must we conduct serial dilutions in microbiological culture methods?

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  • If not then would be so many bacteria that would not be able to discern individual colonies
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What colour do genera porphyromonas and prevotella bacteria appear on culture medium?

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  • Appear black pigmented
  • Associated with periodontal disease
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What are the 3 ways we can biochemically identify the isolated bacteria?

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  • Anaerobes noted by their sensitivity to metronidazole disc (5ug/disc)
  • Gram stain
  • Rapid API 32 A: compare enzymatic activities , sugar fermentation of those bacteria to those held on central database
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What is the outcome of gram staining?

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Gram-positive bacteria = violet colour due to thick peptidoglycan layer in cell wall and retains the gram stain

Gram-negative bacteria = won’t stain as only thin peptidoglycan layer in cell wall

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What does it mean if we see a zone of clearing in agar due to metronidazole disc?

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  • Growing a gram-negative anaerobe
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What are the advantages of microbiological culture methods?

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  • Yields bacterial isolates
  • Can use these for future testing and to study e.g. for antibiotic sensitivities
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What are the disadvantages to microbiological culture methods?

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  • Requires viable cells (most die off and aren’t detected)
  • Insensitive (only show if 10^5-10^6 cells)
  • Only small numbers of samples analysed at once
  • Inconclusive results
  • Labour-intensive
  • Expensive process
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What are DNA probes?

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  • Segments of DNA that have been labelled with chemoluminescent, fluorescent or radioactive agents
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What are some types of DNA probes?

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  • Whole genomic (entire genome)
  • Cloned gene
  • Oligonucleotide (20-50 bases)
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How sensitive are DNA probes compared to culture?

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  • 10^3 cells required to detect species so more sensitive
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How is the DNA probe prepared?

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  • Probe is DNA double stranded molecule
  • Need to pull apart so label can be attached
  • Heat is used to denature the DNA and expose bases on both strands
  • One strand then labelled with either chemiluminescent, radioactive or fluorescent label
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How is the sample prepared ready for the DNA probe?

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  • Extract double stranded DNA from sample
  • Denature the DNA to single strands using heat
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What is a hybridisation reaction in DNA probe method?

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  • Mix the single stranded sample and DNA probes
  • Probe binds to its complimentary sequence of DNA within sample if that bacterial species is present
  • Remove any non-binded DNA
  • Leaves use with labelled DNA probe identified within sample
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How are genomic probes made?

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  • Extract and purify DNA from bacterial species you wish to investigate
  • DNA cut into smaller fragments and labelled
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What are some disadvantages of genomic/cloned gene probes?

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  • Used back in 80’s when we didn’t have genetic info available for different bacterial species
  • Extremely non specific
  • Lots of cross-reactivity between whole genomic probes which made them unreliable
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How are cloned gene probes made?

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  • A gene of interest would be cloned into E.coli
  • Cloned fragment isolated, purified and label attached
  • Gene is specific to bacterial species you are looking for (more specific than genomic)
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How do oligonucleotides probes work?

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  • Very small in size
  • Target 16S ribosomal RNA gene (which all bacteria possess)
  • Possible to synthesise species specific probes that target one or more hypervariable regions
  • Synthesised single stranded oligonucleotides labelled and used as probe
  • Best DNA probe due to specificty
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Why is the 16S ribosomal RNA gene ideal for probes?
- All bacteria possess it - Approx 1500 base pairs in length - Possesses nice hypervariable regions (V1 to V9) that contain DNA sequences that provide specific signature for each bacterial species - Conserved regions give a very broad range and useful as probes or PCR primers
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Why is Polymerase chain reaction good for detecting bacteria in clinical specimens?
- Highly specific - Highly sensitive - Can be used to directly detect bacteria in clinical specimens
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What is required for PCR to work?
- Double stranded DNA template from sample - Primers specififc to particular gene e.g. 16S ribosomal RNA of gene wanting to detect - Deoxynucleoside trisphospates - Enzyme Taq DNA polymerase which catalyses synthesis of new DNA strands
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How does PCR work?
- Double stranded DNA from sample heat denatures at 94C (aka denaturation step) - PCR primers hybridise target sequences on each DNA strand (aka primer annealing step) - Taq DNA polymerase synthesises opposite strand incorporating dNTPs (aka primer extension step) - After each cycle of this the DNA is doubled - Cycle repeated up to 35 cycles
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What different types of primers are there?
- General bacterial primers - Group-specific primers - Species-specific primers (either single primer pair or more than one primer pair) - All usually target 16S ribosomal RNA gene
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What does lanes with no PCR product mean and large amount of PCR?
No PCR = no bacteria you're interested in Large amount PCR = Greater the amount of bacteria interested in
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What are the advantages of DNA probes and PCR over microbiological culture?
- Less time-consuming than culture methods - Very sensitive (DNA probes, 103 cells; PCR, 10 cells) - Can directly detect bacterial DNA within clinical samples - Do not require viable cells, samples do not have to be analysed immediately - Can detect uncultivable species
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What are the disadvantages of DNA probes and PCR over microbiological culture?
- May detect dead cells - Detect only pre-selected species
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What is PCR-RFLP?
- PCR - restriction fragment length polymorphisms - Identification of bacterial isolates - Digests PCR-amplified bacterial 16s rRNA gene with restriction enzymes - Yields specific patterns (fingerprints) for individual species
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What are the benefits of PCR-RFLP?
- Rapid - Cheaper - More specific alternative to biochemical tests for identifying bacterial isolates from clinical samples
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Why is it important to subtype bacteria?
- Track rotes of transmission during disease outbreaks - Study pathogenicity of specific strains
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What is subtyping?
- Sufficient genetic diversity exists to allow identification of different clones (strains) among isolates of same species
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What are the traditional methods for subtyping bacteria?
- Serotyping - Biotyping
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What are some problems with serotyping and biotyping?
- Limited discriminatory capacity - Organism-specific methods - Specialised reagents required that are costly
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What is an alternative to traditional subtyping methods?
- Molecular (genetic) typing methods
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What is restriction enzyme analysis (REA)?
- Type of molecular typing method - Digest whole genomic DNA with restriction enzymes - But too many DNA fragments obtained so makes interpretation difficult
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What is gene probe typing?
- Reduces number of DNA fragments generated by REA using suitable gene probe
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What is ribotyping?
- Type of gene probe typing - Use E.coli rRNA operon as DNA probe following REA -Variation in number and size of fragments in bacterial DNA digest are complimentary with rRNA
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What is the procedure for any gene probe typing method?
- Genomic DNA extracted from bacterial isolate or clinical sample - Digested with one or more restriction enzymes to give many DNA fragments - DNA fragments separated into distinct bands by agarose gel electrophoresis - Smaller ones migrate quicker - DNA bands transferred to nylon membrane - Hybridisation to labelled DNA probe - Probe is visualised and DNA fragments compared
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What is 16S-23S intergenic spacer region (IGS)?
- Simple typing method is PCR-RFLP analysis of 16S-23S IGS - Very variable sequence - Amplify region by PCR using consensus primers - Digest PCR product with restriction enzymes to obtains stain-specific DNA finger prints
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What is DNA sequencing?
- Sequences all the bases in stretch of DNA and detects even single base changes between different bacterial strains of same species - Best typing method
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How can we detect uncultivable and novel bacteria using DNA-based methods?
- Genomic DNA extracted from sample - PCR amplifies 16S rRNA gene from bacterial DNA in clinical specimen - 16S rRNA genes cloned - 50 clones randomly chosen and sequenced - Clone sequences analysed to determine bacterial identity (BLAST)
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