Journal
JOURNAL OF VIROLOGICAL METHODS
Volume 163, Issue 1, Pages 109-115Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.jviromet.2009.09.007
Keywords
Single-nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) analysis; Quantitative genotyping; Allele-specific PCR; Antiviral resistance; Mixture analysis; Influenza resistance
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Monitoring antiviral resistance in influenza is critical to public health epidemiology and pandemic preparedness activities. Effective monitoring requires methods to detect low-level resistance and to monitor the change in resistance as a function of time and drug treatment. Resistance-conferring single-nucleotide mutations in influenza virus are ideal targets for such methods. In the present study, fives sets of paired TaqMan((R)) allele-specific PCR (ASPCR) assays were developed and validated for quantitative single-nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) analysis. This novel method using Delta Ct is termed allele-specific mixture analysis (ASMA) or FluASMA. The FluASMA assays target L26F, V27A, A30T, and S31N mutations in the A/Albany/1/98 (H3N2) M2 gene and H275Y mutation in the A/New Caledonia/20/99 (H1N1) NA gene and have a limit of quantification of 0.25-0.50% mutant. The error for % mutant estimation was less than 10% in all FluASMA assays, with intra-run Delta Ct coefficient of variance (CoV) at <= 2% and inter-run Delta Ct CoV at <= 5%. Results from the current study demonstrate that FluASMA is a highly sensitive and quantitative SNP analysis method. even for minor mutant components (<1%). (C) 2009 Elsevier B.V. An rights reserved.
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