Detection of Escherichia coli O157:H7, Listeria monocytogenes, Salmonella spp. and Staphylococcus aureus using duplex real-time PCR assay with melting curve analysis on fresh lettuce

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

In this study, two duplex real-time PCR approach with melting curve analysis is presented for the detection of Escherichia coli O157:H7, Listeria monocytogenes, Salmonella spp. and Staphylococcus aureus, which are important food-borne bacterial pathogens usually present in fresh and/or minimally processed vegetables. Reaction conditions were adjusted for the simultaneous amplification and detection of specific fragments in the β-glucuronidase (uidA, E. coli), thermonuclease (nuc, S. aureus), hemolycin (hly, L. monocytogenes) and tetrathionate reductase (ttr, Salmonella spp.) genes. Melting curve analysis using a SYBR Green I real-time PCR approach showed characteristic Tm values demonstrating the specific and efficient amplification of the four pathogens; 80.6 ± 0.9 ℃,86.9 ± 0.5 ℃, 80.4 ± 0.6 ℃ and 88.1 ± 0.11 ℃ for S. aureus, E. coli O157:H7, L. monocytogenes and Salmonella spp.,respectively. For all the pathogens, the two duplex, real-time PCR was equally sensitive to uniplex real-time PCR,using same amounts of purified DNA, and allowed detection of 10 genome equivalents. When our established duplex real-time PCR assay was applied to artificially inoculated fresh lettuce, the detection limit was 10³ CFU/g for each of these pathogens without enrichment. The results from this study showed that the developed duplex real-time PCR with melting curve analysis is promising as a rapid and cost-effective test method for improving food safety.

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