Acta Veterinaria et Zootechnica Sinica ›› 2023, Vol. 54 ›› Issue (9): 3991-3997.doi: 10.11843/j.issn.0366-6964.2023.09.037

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Detection of Porcine Epidemic Diarrhea Virus by Recombinase Aided Amplification Combined with CRISPR/Cas13a

LIU Hua1,2, YIN Dongdong3, SHAO Ying1, SONG Xiangjun1, WANG Zhenyu1, PAN Xiaocheng3, TU Jian1, HE Changsheng2, ZHU Liangqiang2*, QI Kezong1*   

  1. 1. Anhui Agricultural University, Hefei 230036, China;
    2. Anhui Animal Disease Prevention and Control Center, Hefei 230091, China;
    3. Institute of Animal Husbandry and Veterinary Medicine, Anhui Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Hefei 230031, China
  • Received:2023-02-24 Published:2023-09-22

Abstract: The aim of this paper is to establish a rapid, sensitive, and specific detection method for porcine epidemic diarrhea virus (PEDV) by recombinase aided amplification (RAA) combined with the Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats associated protein 13a (CRISPR-Cas13a), called RAA-Cas13a. The specific primer for RAA and CRISPR RNA (crRNA) of the conserved region of the PEDV N gene were designed. The sample nucleic acids were amplified by RAA, whose amplification products were then detected with CRISPR-Cas13a and use RT-qPCR as a control method to evaluate the sensitivity, specificity, and consistency of this method. The results showed that the method could detect as low as 101 copies·μL-1 and had no cross-reactivity with pig-derived pathogens such as porcine circovirus type 1, porcine circovirus type 2, porcine circovirus type 3, porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome virus, swine fever virus and pseudorabies virus. The positive coincidence rate of 40 clinical samples detected by RAA-Cas13a and RT-qPCR method was 100%, the negative coincidence rate was 84.6%, the total coincidence rate was 95%, and the Kappa value was 0.881. The established RAA-Cas13a detection method has high sensitivity and strong specificity, providing a reliable technical means for the clinical diagnosis and epidemiological monitoring of PEDV.

Key words: porcine epidemic diarrhea virus, CRISPR/Cas13a, recombinase aided amplification, N gene, detection

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