Establishment and application of PCR assay for detect of pigeon circovirus
To establish a method for the rapid and sensitive detection of pigeon circovirus(PiCV),a genome-wide recombinant plasmid of PiCV had been constructed according to a PiCV popular strain genome sequence(GenBank:OL901205.1).Subsequently,multiple sets of primers and probes were designed based on the conserved sequence of PiCV Rep gene.After screening,the optimized primers and probes com-bination which presented the best amplification efficiency was selected.And the TaqMan fluorescent quantitative PCR detection method was established.To test the sensitivity of this method,the synthet-ic standard recombinant plasmid was employed.The results showed that the minimum detection limit of template is 21 copies/μL and the data can keep a good linear relationship over the range 2.1 × 101-2.1 × 108 copies/μL with the linear correlation coefficient R2=0.999 1.This method also show a highly specificity to PiCV which has no signal can be detected from pigeon herpesvirus type 1,pigeon aden-ovirus,Newcastle disease virus and pigeon rotavirus.The repeatability of the method is also excel-lent.The coefficient of variation is less than 2%,and the intra-assay coefficient of variation is less than l%.By using 50 clinical samples,the positive detection rate of this method is 94%while that of PCR is 82%.The coincidence rate of the two methods was 100%.In summary,the TaqMan fluorescent quantitative PCR detection method of PiCV established in this experiment can be used for clinical de-tection of PiCV.