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Immuno-PCR - A New Tool for Paleomicrobiology: The Plague Paradigm

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Background: The cause of past plague pandemics was controversial but several research teams used PCR techniques and dental pulp as the primary material to reveal that they were caused by Yersinia pestis. However, the degradation of DNA limits the ability to detect ancient infections. Methods: We used for the first time immuno-PCR to detect Yersinia pestis antigens; it can detect protein concentrations 70 times lower than the standard ELISA. After determining the cut-off value, we tested 34 teeth that were obtained from mass graves of plague, and compared previous PCR results with ELISA and immuno-PCR results. Results: The immuno-PCR technique was the most sensitive (14 out of 34) followed by the PCR technique (10 out of 34) and ELISA (3 out of 34). The combination of these three methods identified 18 out of 34 (53%) teeth as presumably being from people with the plague. Conclusion: Immuno-PCR is specific (no false-positive samples were found) and more sensitive than the currently used method to detect antigens of ancient infections in dental pulp. The combination of three methods, ELISA, PCR and immuno- PCR, increased the capacity to identify ancient pathogens in dental pulp. Citation: Malou N, Tran T-N-N, Nappez C, Signoli M, Le Forestier C, et al. (2012) Immuno-PCR - A New Tool
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N. Malou, Thi-Nguyen-Ny Tran, C. Nappez, Michel Signoli, C. Le Forestier, et al.. Immuno-PCR - A New Tool for Paleomicrobiology: The Plague Paradigm. PLoS ONE, 2012, 7 (2), pp.e31744. ⟨10.1371/journal.pone.0031744⟩. ⟨hal-01060544⟩
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