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Real-time PCR (qPCR) is a widely used technique in analysing environmental and clinical microbiological samples. However, its main limitation was its inability to discriminate between live and dead cells.  Recently, propidium monoazide (PMA) together with qPCR has been used to overcome this problem, with good results for different bacterial species in different types of samples.  Our objective was to implement this technique for analysing mortality in multi-species oral biofilms formed  in vitro  with five oral bacteria:  Streptococcus oralis ,  Streptococcus gordonii ,  Veillonella parvula ,  Fusobacterium nucleatum  and  Prevotella intermedia . We also tested its effectiveness on biofilms treated with an antiseptic solution containing 0.07% w/w cetylpyridinium chloride (CPC).  Standardisation of the qPCR-PMA method was performed on pure, heat-killed planktonic cultures of each species, detecting mortality higher than 4 log in  S. oralis ,  S. gordonii  and  F. nucleatum  and higher than 2 for  V. parvula  and  P. intermedia . We obtained similar results for all species when using CPC.  When we analysed biofilms with qPCR-PMA, we found that the mortality in the non-CPC treated multi-species biofilms was lower than 1 log for all species. After treatment with CPC, the viability reduction was higher than 4 log in  S. oralis  and  S. gordonii , higher than 3 log in  F. nucleatum  and  P. intermedia  and approximately 2 in  V. parvula .  In short, we standardised the conditions for using qPCR-PMA in 5 oral bacterial species and proved its usefulness for quantification of live and dead cells in multi-species oral biofilms formed  in vitro , after use of an antiseptic.

Method to quantify live and dead cells in multi-species oral biofilm by real-time PCR with propidium monoazide