Contamination of powdered infant formula (PIF) by the bacteria Cronobacter spp. and Salmonella enterica was deemed a matter of great concern by the World Health Organization and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations in 2004. Therefore, we developed a rapid and sensitive multiplex real-time PCR assay for the simultaneous detection of Cronobacter and Salmonella in PIF. In ad...

conclusions the in-house 1 step taqman real time rt-pcr assay showed acceptable performance characteristics. our study presents the robustness and cost-effectiveness of the method for detection and quantification of hcv rna. methods the primers and probe were selected from a highly conserved region of the hcv genome, which allowed the detection of 4 common hcv genotypes in iran. using 4 quantif...

To establish an accurate, rapid, and a quantifiable method for the detection of Riemerella anatipestifer infection, a widespread infectious disease in birds, we developed a TaqMan-based real-time PCR assay by using DtxR gene-specific primers and a TaqMan probe. The standard curve established with a linear correlation (R2) of 0.998 and efficiency of 99% between the Ct value and the logarithm of ...

The AdvanSure tuberculosis/non-tuberculous mycobacterium (TB/NTM) PCR (LG Life Science, Korea) and COBAS TaqMan Mycobacterium tuberculosis (MTB) PCR (Roche Diagnostics, USA) are commonly used in clinical microbiology laboratories. We aimed to evaluate these two commercial real-time PCR assays for detection of MTB in a large set of clinical samples over a two-year period. AdvanSure TB/NTM PCR an...

Loop-mediated amplification (LAMP) amplifies specific nucleotide sequences but unlike PCR, it runs at a single temperature and positive reactions can be visualized with the naked eye so fragile instrumentation is not required. We have developed a one step, single-tube, accelerated, FMDVspecific RT-LAMP assay for the rapid detection of all seven serotypes of the virus, using primers designed aga...

Those who have worked in the field of quantitative polymerase chain reaction (PCR) since the early 1990s have accepted many of the tedious aspects of the early assays as routine. Difficulties associated with early quantitative PCR techniques included: (i) ensuring that the PCR was within the linear range of amplification (that portion where the PCR signal is directly proportional to the input c...