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Prevalence of Actinobacillus actinomycetemcomitans serotypes in Japanese patients with periodontitis
Author(s) -
Yamamoto Matuo,
Nishihara Tatsuji,
Koseki Takeyoshi,
He Tao,
Yamato Kenji,
Zhang Yi Jie,
Nakashima Keisuke,
Oda Shigeru,
Ishikawa Isao
Publication year - 1997
Publication title -
journal of periodontal research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.31
H-Index - 83
eISSN - 1600-0765
pISSN - 0022-3484
DOI - 10.1111/j.1600-0765.1997.tb00578.x
Subject(s) - serotype , actinobacillus , microbiology and biotechnology , genotype , biology , polymerase chain reaction , periodontitis , antiserum , virology , medicine , immunology , antibody , gene , biochemistry
Oral Actinobacillus actinomycetemcomitans strains are serologically classified into 5 distinct groups, a to e. We examined the distribution of A. actinomycetemcomitans serotypes in Japanese patients with periodontitis. A total of 157 A. actinomycetemcomitans clinical isolates from diseased sites of 39 patients with periodontitis were serotyped by using serotype‐specific rabbit antisera against. A. actinomycetemcomitans serotypes a, b, c, d and e strains. In the immunodiffusion assay, autoclaved extracts of 42, 6, 39, 9 and 41 A. actinomycetemcomitans clinical isolates reacted with serotypes a, b, c, d and e antisera, respectively. Although 37 patients were infected with a serotype strain, 2 patients harbored 2 different serotype strains, b/e and b/untypeable. To establish a correlation between serotype and genotype of A. actinomycetemcomitans clinical isolates from 2 patients who had different serotype strains, we used arbitrarily primed polymerase chain reaction (AP‐PCR) to fingerprint clinical isolates of different serotypes. The AP‐PCR genotype among 4 clinical isolates (b/e and b/untypeable) were identical to that of A. actinomycetecomitans Y4 (serotype b), indicating the presence of multiple A. actinomycetemcomitans serotypes which are genetically homogenous in the periodontally diseased sites of patients with periodontitis.