Molecular Assays for Quantitative and Qualitative Detection of Influenza Virus and Oseltamivir Resistance Mutations

• Autores: Erhard van der Vries, Jeer Anber, Anne van der Linden, Yingbin Wu, Jolanda Maaskant, Ralph Stadhouders, Ruud van Beek, Guus Rimmelzwaan, Albert Osterhaus, Charles Boucher, Martin Schutten
• Localización: The Journal of molecular diagnostics, ISSN 1525-1578, Vol. 15, Nº. 3, 2013, págs. 347-354
• Idioma: inglés
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  • Sensitive and reproducible molecular assays are essential for influenza virus diagnostics. This manuscript describes the design, validation, and evaluation of a set of real-time RT-PCR assays for quantification and subtyping of human influenza viruses from patient respiratory material. Four assays are included for detection of oseltamivir resistance mutations H275Y in prepandemic and pandemic influenza A/H1N1 and E119V and R292K in influenza A/H3N2 neuraminidase. The lower limits of detection of the quantification assay were determined to be 1.7 log10 virus particles per milliliter (vp/mL) for influenza A and 2.2 log10 vp/mL for influenza B virus. The lower limits of quantification were 2.1 and 2.3 log10 vp/mL, respectively. The RT-PCR efficiencies and lower limits of detection of the quantification assays were only marginally affected when tested on the most dissimilar target sequences found in the GenBank database. Finally, the resistance RT-PCR assays detected at least 5% mutant viruses present in mixtures containing both wild-type and mutant viruses with approximated limits of detection of 2.4 log10 vp/mL. Overall, this set of RT-PCR assays is a powerful tool for enhanced influenza virus surveillance.