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SUBMITTER: Wilson B
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3858260 | biostudies-literature | 2013
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Wilson Bryan B Muirhead Andrew A Bazanella Monika M Huete-Stauffer Carla C Vezzulli Luigi L Bourne David G DG
PloS one 20131210 12
DNA- and RNA-based PCR and reverse-transcription real-time PCR assays were developed for diagnostic detection of the vcpA zinc-metalloprotease implicated in the virulence of the coral pathogen Vibrio coralliilyticus. Both PCR methods were highly specific for V. coralliilyticus and failed to amplify strains of closely-related Vibrio species. The assays correctly detected all globally occurring V. coralliilyticus isolates including a newly-described isolate [TAV24] infecting gorgonians in the Medi ...[more]