HIGHLY CONSERVED GENES AND THEIR USE TO GENERATE SPECIES-SPECIFIC, GENUS-SPECIFIC, FAMILY-SPECIFIC, GROUP-SPECIFIC AND UNIVERSAL NUCLEIC ACID PROBES AND AMPLIFICATION PRIMERS TO RAPIDLY DETECT AND IDENTIFY ALGAL, ARCHAEAL, BACTERIAL, FUNGAL AND PARASITICAL MICROORGANISMS FROM CLINICAL SPECIMENS FOR DIAGNOSIS

摘要

Four highly conserved genes, encoding translation elongation factor Tu, translation elongation factor G, the catalytic subunit of proton-translocating ATPase and the RecA recombinase, are used to generate a sequence repertory or bank and species-specific, genus-specific, family-specific, group-specific and universal nucleic acid probes and amplification primers to rapidly detect and identify algal, archaeal, bacterial, fungal and parasitical microorganisms from specimens for diagnosis. The detection of associated antimicrobial agents resistance and toxin genes are also under the scope of the present invention.