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Rapid Detection of Shiga Toxin-Producing Bacteria in Feces by Multiplex PCR with Molecular Beacons on the Smart Cycler
1 Apr 2002
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We have developed a rapid (1-h) real-time fluorescence-based PCR assay with the Smart Cycler thermal cycler (Cepheid, Sunnyvale, Calif.) for the detection of Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli (STEC), as well as other Shiga toxin-producing bacteria. Based on multiple-sequence alignments, we have designed two pairs of PCR primers that efficiently amplify all variants of the Shiga toxin genes stx(1) and stx(2),...
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