Probes and polymerase chain reaction for detection of food-borne bacterial pathogens

International Journal of Food Microbiology

Volumn 28, Issue 1, 1995, Pages 1-78

  Olsen, J E ^a   Aabo, S ^b   Hill, W ^c   Notermans, S ^d   Wernars, K ^d   Granum, P E ^e   Popovic, T ^f   Rasmussen, H N ^a   Olsvik, Ø ^f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^b National Food Agency of Denmark   (Denmark)

^c CENTER FOR DRUG EVALUATION AND RESEARCH   (United States)

^d NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC HEALTH AND THE ENVIRONMENT   (Netherlands)

^e NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES   (Norway)

^f NATL CENTER FOR INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

Author keywords

Foodborne; Oligonucleotides; Pathogens; PCR; Probes

Indexed keywords

BACILLUS CEREUS; BACTERIUM DETECTION; CAMPYLOBACTER; CLOSTRIDIUM BOTULINUM; CLOSTRIDIUM PERFRINGENS; DNA HYBRIDIZATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FOOD CONTAMINATION; FOOD CONTROL; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REVIEW; SALMONELLA; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; VIBRIO; VIBRIO CHOLERAE; YERSINIA ENTEROCOLITICA;

BACTERIA; BASE SEQUENCE; FOOD MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

BACILLUS CEREUS; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CAMPYLOBACTER; CLOSTRIDIUM BOTULINUM; CLOSTRIDIUM PERFRINGENS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; SALMONELLA; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; VIBRIO CHOLERAE; YERSINIA ENTEROCOLITICA;

EID: 0028881202     PISSN: 01681605     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0168-1605(94)00159-4     Document Type: Review

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270. Clinical features and an epidemiological study of V. vulnificus infections
271. Detection of heat-stable enterotoxin in a cholera toxin gene-positive strain of Vibrio cholerae O1
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274. DNA probe culture confirmation assay for identification of thermophilic Campylobacter species
275. Non-radioactively labelled polynucleotide and oligonucleotide DNA probes, for selectively detecting Escherichia coli strains producing Verotoxin cytotoxins VT1, VT2 and VT2 variant
276. Sensitive and specific detection of Listeria monocytogenes in milk and ground beef with the polymerase chain reaction
277. The complete amino acid sequence of the Clostridium botulinum type A neurotoxin, deduced by nucleotide sequence analysis of the encoding gene
278. Enzymatically labelled nucleic acid (NA) probe assays for detection of Campylobacter spp. in human faecal specimens and in culture
279. Characterisation of Salmonella virchow phage types by plasmid profile and IS200 distribution
280. Detection of three species of pathogenic vibrios by using the polymerase chain reaction
281. Detection of Escherichia coli in sewage and sludge by the polymerase chain reaction
282. Possible use of a 1.8 kb DNA fragment for the specific detection of Salmonella in foods
283. DNA sequence of oligonucleotide probes for Salmonella detection
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285. Synthetic DNA probes for detection of enterotoxigenic Clostridium perfringens strains isolated from outbreaks of food poisoning
286. Testing strains of Clostridium perfringens type A isolated from diarrheic piglets for the presence of the enterotoxin gene
287. Proposal for a new family, Campylobacteraceae
288. Identification of toxigenic Vibrio cholerae from the Argentina outbreak by PCR for ctxA1 and ctxA2-B
289. Escherichia coli O157:H7: A mini-review
290. The molecular epidemiology of cholera in Latin America
291. General colorimetric method for DNA diagnostics allowing direct Solidphase genomic sequencing of the positive samples
292. Development of a 16S rRNA-based oligomer probe specific for Listeria monocytogenes
293. Development of DNA probes specific for Campylobacter jujuni
294. A rapid PCR method for direct detection of low numbers of Campylobacter jujuni
295. 16S rRNA-based probes and polymerase chain reaction method to detect Listeria monocytogenes cells added to foods
296. Development of cell surface protein associated gene probe specific for Listeria monocytogenes and detection of the bacteria in food by PCR
297. Modified colony hybridization using whatman 54 filter paper
298. Cloning and nucleotide sequence of the Campylobacter jejuni gyrA gene and characterization of quinolone resistance mutations
299. Enterotoxin and cytotoxin producing Escherichia coli
300. New enrichment method for isolation of pathogenic Yersinia enterocolitica serogroup O:3 from pork
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312. Heterogeneity of Escherichia coli phages encoding Vero cytotoxins: Comparison of cloned sequences determining VT1 and VT2 and development of specific gene probes
313. Detection of enterotoxinogenic Staphylococcus aureus in dried skimmed milk: Use of the polymerase chain reaction for amplification and detection of staphylococcal enterotoxin genes entB and entC1 and the thermonuclease gene nuc
314. Development of a colorimetric second generation nucleic acid method for detection of Salmonella in foods and a comparison with conventional culture procedure
315. DNA-based rapid methods for the detection of foodborne pathogens
316. Advances in nucleic acid-based detection methods
317. Detection of entero- and verocyto-toxin genes in Escherichia coli from diarrhoeal disease in animals using the polymerase chain reaction
318. Detection of pathogenic Yersinia enterocolitica be the polymerase chain reaction
319. Cloning of the cytotoxin-hemolysin gene of V. vulniflcus
320. Development and testing of a nonradioactive DNA oligonucleotide probe that is specific for V. cholerae cholera toxin
321. Rapid identification of V. vulnificus on nonselective media with an alkaline phosphataselabeled oligonucleotide probe
322. Cytolysin gene of V. vulnificus: sequence and relationship to V. cholerae E1 Tor hemolysin
323. Detection of Campylobacter species by using polymerase chain reaction (PCR) and nonradioactive DNA probe
324. Development of and enzymelabeled oligonucleotide probe for the cholera toxin gene
325. Molecular pathogenesis of shigellosis: a review
326. Application of a biotin-labelled DNA probe to detect Campylobacter
327. Plasmid mediated tissue invasiveness in Yersinia enterocolitica