Acta Veterinaria et Zootechnica Sinica ›› 2025, Vol. 56 ›› Issue (2): 765-773.doi: 10.11843/j.issn.0366-6964.2025.02.026

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Establishment and Application of TaqMan Fluorescent Quantitative PCR Detection Method for Duck Plague Virus

YU Jiangwei1(), CHENG Huimin2, LIN Jian2, YANG Baolin2, HUANG Cheng2, YANG Zhiyuan2,*(), HU Ge1,*()   

  1. 1. College of Animal Science and Technology, Beijing University of Agriculture, Beijing 102206, China
    2. Institute of Animal Husbandry and Veterinary Medicine, Beijing Academy of Agricultural and Forestry Sciences, Beijing 100097, China
  • Received:2024-03-11 Online:2025-02-23 Published:2025-02-26
  • Contact: YANG Zhiyuan, HU Ge E-mail:625744906@qq.com;yangzy88@126.com;bnhuge@126.com

Abstract:

To establish a rapid TaqMan fluorescent quantitative PCR detection method for duck plague virus (DPV), specific primers and probes were designed based on the conserved sequence of the DPV US6 gene, and a recombinant plasmid DPV-US6 standard was constructed. The sensitivity, specificity, and reproducibility of the method were evaluated, and it was applied to study the proliferation of DPV in chicken embryo fibroblast (CEF) cells and the distribution pattern of virus load in the organs and tissues of artificially infected ducks. The results showed that the DPV TaqMan fluorescent quantitative PCR detection method was successfully established, with a minimum detection limit of 10 copies·μL-1. There was no cross-reaction with Muscovy duck parvovirus, duck circovirus, duck Tembusu virus, duck reovirus, H9N2 subtype avian influenza virus, duck hepatitis A virus types Ⅰ and Ⅲ, or duck chlamydia. The inter-batch and intra-batch coefficient of variation were both less than 2.0%. After DPV-AX strain infected CEF cells, the viral nucleic acid copy number detection results indicated that the virus proliferated slowly from 4 to 8 hours, rapidly increased from 12 to 60 hours, peaked at 60 hours, and gradually declined from 72 to 144 hours. Compared with the virus titer determined by the TCID50 method, the two detection methods showed good correlation, allowing the copy number to replace TCID50. The virus load distribution detection in organs and tissues of ducks artificially infected with DPV showed the highest virus load in the liver. The detection method established in this experiment provides a tool for studying the proliferation pattern of the DPV-AX strain in CEF cells.

Key words: duck plague virus, US6 gene, TaqMan probe, fluorescence quantitative PCR, proliferation characteristics, artificial infection

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