Development and evaluation of a real-time quantitative PCR assay for detection and enumeration of yeasts of public health interest in dairy products

International Journal of Food Microbiology

Volumn 140, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 76-83

  Makino, Hiroshi ^a,b   Fujimoto, Junji ^a   Watanabe, Koichi ^a  

^a YAKULT CENTRAL INSTITUTE FOR MICROBIOLOGICAL RESEARCH   (Japan)

^b Yakult Honsha European Research Center for Microbiology   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Dairy product; Emerging opportunistic yeasts; Real time quantitative PCR; Specific primer

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CANDIDA GLABRATA; CANDIDA PARAPSILOSIS; CANDIDA TROPICALIS; CLAVISPORA LUSITANIAE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DAIRY PRODUCT; FILOBASIDIELLA; FOOD CONTAMINATION; FOOD CONTROL; FUNGAL DETECTION; FUNGUS; FUNGUS CULTURE; ISSATCHENKIA ORIENTALIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TRICHOSPORON ASAHII; TRICHOSPORON JIROVECII;

COLONY COUNT, MICROBIAL; DAIRY PRODUCTS; DNA PRIMERS; FOOD MICROBIOLOGY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, RIBOSOMAL; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TIME FACTORS; YEASTS;

CANDIDA ALBICANS; CANDIDA GLABRATA; CANDIDA PARAPSILOSIS; CANDIDA TROPICALIS; CLAVISPORA LUSITANIAE; FILOBASIDIELLA NEOFORMANS; ISSATCHENKIA ORIENTALIS; TRICHOSPORON ASAHII; TRICHOSPORON JIROVECII;

EID: 77952293152     PISSN: 01681605     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijfoodmicro.2010.02.004     Document Type: Article

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