Establishment and Application of a Universal Real-time Fluorescent PCR for Pigeon Adenovirus
Pigeon adenovirus(PiAdV)is one of the major pathogens affecting healthy development of pigeon industry.In order to rapidly detect PiAdV at high-throughput,based on the common conserved region of pⅧ gene sequences of PiAdV-A and PiAdV-B registered in GeneBank,specific primers and probes were designed,after optimization of reaction conditions,a universal real-time fluorescent PCR assay for detecting PiAdV was established,followed by tests of its specificity,sensitivity and repeatability.The results showed that the optimal probe concentration of the established method was 0.2 μmol/L,without any cross reactivity with other common pigeon viruses,the minimum detection limit was 56.9 copies/μL,100 times more sensitive than conventional PCR,and all the coefficients of variation in repeated inter and intra groups were less than 1.8%.20 suspected samples were detected by the method and the conventional PCR,the detection rate of positive samples by the former was higher than that by the latter.In conclusion,the universal real-time fluorescent PCR assay for PiAdV established in the paper,with its advantages of strong specificity,high sensitivity and good reliability,could be used for clinical detection and epidemiological investigation of the virus.