Establishment and application of TaqMan real-time fluorescence quantitative RT-PCR for detection of porcine rotavirus
Specific probes and primers were designed according to the conserved region of porcine rotavirus VP6 gene sequence to establish a specific,sensitive,universal and efficient real-time fluo-rescence quantitative RT-PCR assay for PoRV detection.The amplified target fragment was 173 bp,and the reaction procedure was optimized with the constructed recombinant plasmid pMD19-T-VP6 as the template.The results show that the standard curve of this method is y=-3.113 9x+39.298,R2=0.993 7,and E=109.5%.The results were negative when the method was used to detect the pathogens of common infectious diseases in pigs.The minimum detection limit of standard quality particles was 1.32 copies/μL.The coefficient of variation within and between batches were less than 0.600%and 1.300%,respectively.The method had strong specificity,high sensitivity and good repeatability.114 samples for clinical diarrhea were detected,and the positive detection rate of this method(39/114)was better than that of conventional RT-PCR(22/114).All 39 positive samples were identified as PoRV by sequencing,and 22 positive plasmids were successfully constructed after VP7 gene was amplified.The sequencing results showed that 6 types of G-type PoRV were detected,and the detection rates were 9.09%(G3),22.72%(G4),18.18%(G5),31.82%(G9),4.54%(G11)and 9.09%(G26),respectively.The above results indicated that an universal TaqMan real-time fluorescence quantitative RT-PCR method has been established in this experiment,which is of great sig-nificance for the diagnosis,pathogen monitoring and epidemiological investigation of porcine rotavirus.