Desenvolvimento de marcadores moleculares para identificação de Isolados Clínicos de Candida spp.

Abstract

The vulvovaginal candidiasis (VVC) it is one of the most frequent vaginal infections. The yeasts of the genus Candida are the etiologic agents of this infection, being Candida albicans the majority responsible. However, an increase has been verifying in the incidence of infections caused by other species ( C. glabrata, C. tropicalis, C. parapsilosis and C. krusei). With intention of presenting an inclination for the process of identification of Candida's five species, commonly isolated of the vulva and vagina, it was made the analysis of species - specific molecular markers for the region ITS1 -5.8S-ITS2, of the rDNA. The analysis of the nucleotides sequences of that region came quite conserved for the strains of a same species and, parallel, divergent among the species of the genus. The markers were translated in nucleotides segments, of the whic h it was possible to develop species -specific oligonucleotides technically proper, besides ranches enzymatic inter and intra -specific capable of to identify/differentiate Candida's species. A parallel analysis of the " fingerprint ", generated by simple PCR, it verified the inadequability of the use of the universal oligonucleotídeos ITS1, ITS2, ITS3 and ITS4 for the identification of those species. In a contrary way, the developed species -specific oligonucleotides came efficient corroborating, in practice, with the hypothesis presented in this work. Restriction enzymes selected for the differentiation of Candida's species they constitute an alternative to be explored hereafter, in experiments of PCR-RFLP.