Yishu Tang^*, Yang Yang, Ru Wu, Miao Gao, Fang Cui

Department of Laboratory Medicine, The First Affiliated Hospital of Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing, People’s Republic of China

^*Corresponding Author: Yishu Tang, Department of Laboratory Medicine, The First Affiliated Hospital of Chongqing Medical University, No. 1 Youyi Road, Yuzhong District, Chongqing, 400016, China, Tel: +86 23 89012735; Fax: +86 23 89012735;

 Received: 04 January 2018; Accepted: 08 June 2018; Published: 20 June 2018

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Citation: Yishu Tang, Yang Yang, Ru Wu, Miao Gao, Fang Cui. Comparative Analysis of Quantitative Real-time PCR and Agglutination Detection in Candida Species Isolated from Clinical Urine Specimens of Old Patients. Archives of Microbiology & Immunology 2 (2018): 036-041.

DOI: 10.26502/ami.93650020

Abstract

Keywords

Quantitative Real-time PCR; Candida albicans

Article Details

1. Introduction
The Candida species opportunistically induced the disease in the people whose defense mechanisms were damaged. The pathogenic Candida species might induce the diseases ranging from superficial mycoses to fatal effect. The incidence of Candida-related infections has increased steadily over the past three decades [1].The infection ratio of Candida species has raised in the past 30 years, which might be due to medical therapy and the increasing immunocompromised patients with antibiotic intervention, AIDS and cancer [2-3] .Furthermore, the Candida species infection increased because the application of medical device such as heart valves, pacemakers, catheters and joint replacements. These implants became colonized by microorganisms, which produced biological membrane and induced invasive disease [4].Previous reports identified the pathogenic factors of Candida species infection to ease the diagnosis and cure of candidacies [5-8]. The pathogenic factors of Candida species infection were including the phenotypic variability, adherences to host tissue, toxins and enzymes. In the present study, we want to assess pathogenic Candida species isolated from various clinical specimens of old patients, therefore, we could provide useful information for clinical therapy.

2. Methods
2.1 Samples
We collected the urine samples of 102 older patients in The First Affiliated Hospital of Chongqing Medical University from March 2017 to September 2017.We divided the patients into 2 groups (the control group and the experimental group) randomly. There were 27 females and the 27 males in the control group (the average age was 71.8±6.5). Otherwise, there were 27 females and the 27 males in the experimental group (the average age was 72.4±6.9).

 2.2 Detection method
The control group used the agglutination detection. We performed the experiment according to the standard protocol. If the purple particle occurred, the result showed positive, which demonstrated the Candida species existed in the urine sample. If the purple particle did not occur, the result showed negative, which demonstrated the Candida species did not exist in the urine sample. The experiment group used the Quantitative Real-time PCR detection. The prime is 5-TTCACATATGGAAGCCAGAGGG-3;5-CAATGGCACAAAGGAATCCAGC-3. The PCR On the basis of the manufacturer's instructions (Roche ,Swiss). Quantitative Real-time PCR was performed in a 20μl reaction mixture, 10μl PCR premixed solution, 0.8μl thermus aquaticus (Taq) and 5μl primer mixture. Amplification was carried out by initial denaturation at 95°C for 5 min followed by 5 cycles of denaturation at 95°C for 30s, annealing at 58°C for 30s and elongation at 72°C for 30s. In total, 40 cycles were conducted.

2.3 Statistical analysis
All analyses were carried out using the SPSS 17.0 statistical software. Pearson's χ2 test was performed to evaluate the significance of differences between designated groups. All analyses were two-sided and interpreted as being significant at P<0.05.

3. Results
In the Table 1, there were 28 female and 23 male in the Experiment group, on the other way, there were 26 female and 25 male in the control group. There were no difference between the groups (P>0.05).There were 15 patients with cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases, 13 patients with diabetes mellitus, 9 patients with tuberculosis, 4 patients with liver cirrhosis, 8 patients with cancer in the experiment group , which did not have no difference with the control group (Table 2). The Table 3 demonstrated that the positive ratio of the experimental group was 80.39% (41/51), on the other side, the positive ratio of the experiment group was 68.62% (35/51).The positive ratio of the experimental group was higher than the control group (P<0.05). The Table 4 demonstrated that the detect ratio of Candida albicans, C. glabrata, C.tropical, C. krusei was 53.5%, 21.9%, 12,1%,4.8%,7.3% in the Experiment group ,respectively. The detect ratio of Candida albicans, C. glabrata, C.tropical, C. krusei was 51.4%, 22.8%, 11.4%, 8.5% in the control group, respectively.

Table 1:The gender distribution in the Experiment groups  and Control group

Table 2:The disease  distribution in the Experiment groups  and Control group

Table 3:The Positive samples in the Experiment groups  and Control group

Table 4:The Candida type distribution in the Experiment groups  and Control group

4. Discussion
Candida species have existed in the world widely, but in the human body, the highest content of Candida species existed in the digestive tract, then the vagina. In the normal condition, the multiple floras were in the balance, which did not induce disease. But when the immunity of the human body was decreasing, or the pH value of some organs changed, the balance of flora was interrupted, therefore, the Candida species invaded in the human body and induced the disease.

When the organ function and body immunity were decreasing,  older patients were more likely to be invaded by the Candida species. Moreover, the widely application of antibiotics and hormone drug induced the occurrence of the multiple drug-resistant bacteria, which interrupted the balance between the bacteria group and fungus group, enhanced the infection ratio of Candida species.

We should detect Candida species using accurate method and then use the precise drug targeted different type of Candida species. In our study, the positive ratio of Quantitative Real-time PCR detection was higher than the agglutination detection (P<0.05). Moreover, the Quantitative Real-time PCR detection method was more effective and time-saving method. Many other factors like surface recognition molecules, hyphal switching, extracellular hydrolytic enzymes and phenotypic switching have been involved in pathogenicity of Candida species [9]. Mattei et al. demonstrated phospholipase activity was detected for 78% of C. albicans isolates, and proteinase activity was detected for 97% of isolates from bloodstream samples [10].

Our finding demonstrated that the Quantitative Real-time PCR detection method was more effective than the agglutination detection. The present study aimed to detect the type of Candida species isolated from the urine samples of older patients. But the type detection ratio between the two methods have no difference. A wide range of clinical samples should be studied in the future. The pathogenicity of Candida species were still needed to be validated.

Acknowledgements
This work was supported by a grant from the National Key R&D Program of China (2017YFC0909900). This work was supported by a grant from National Natural Science Foundation of China (No 81501818 of Yishu Tang).

Conflict of interest
The authors declare no conflicts of interest.

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