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Objective To isolate hantavirus from Lishui county-one of the epidemic regions for hemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome(HFRS),in Zhejiang province,and to identify the serotype and molecular/biological characteristics of a new HTN subtype hantavirus(HV)strains,hopefully to provide evidence for HFRS prevention and therapy.Methods Data on the host animals was collected from Lishui,Zhejiang province in 2007.Direct immunofluorscece assay was adopted to determine HFRS antigens and the lung tissues from HV infeeted Vero-E6 cells for HV isolation,then total RNA was extracted from Hantavirus Lishui strains and amplified by RT-PCR M,S segments of strains genome were also clened and sequenced and compared with those of other strains of HV Results 2 strains virus(ZLS6-11 and ZLS-12)Were successfully isolated from 7 positive lung samples of mice and were identified as HTNV by anti-McAb and phylogenetic analysis.With sequence compation.We found that 2 strains with complete M and S segment had higher homology with HTN-type strains than with other types of HV,but 13.4%-20.7%and 10.3%-16.1%of the genes were found which were difierent from HTNV.The phylogenetic trees constructed by complete S and M segment showed that ZLS6-11 and ZLS-12 strains were located in HTNV group,and structured independent embranchment.Conclusion ZLS6-11 and ZLS-12 Strains were believed to belong to HTN-type and phylogenetically different from the HTNV.
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Objective To identify the presence of candidate pathogenicity island 89K DNA sequence of Streptococcus suis serotype 2 (SS2) strains isolated from patient in Zhejiang province. Methods Genes and DNA fragments were amplified by PCR, using specific primers, and three amplified fragments of the89K sequence were directly sequenced. The results were analyzed using software related to bioinformaties and epidemiology. Results 8 strains of SS2 all contained 89K sequence, cps2J and mrp virulent genes, and species-specific 16S rDNA. 3 amplified fragments of 89K candidate pathogenicity island of SS2 ZJ0501 were above 99% similar to SS2 strain identified from outbreaks in Jiangsu in 1998, and the gene fragment of coding DNA recombinant protein in the 89K sequence was highly homological with that of S. dysgalactiae and S. agalactiae. Conclusion In recent years SS2 strains isolaed from patients with clinical symptoms in Zhejiang province had been detected to have contained candidate pathogenicy 89K DNA fragment.