Article
Detection and characterization of Salmonella associated with tropical seafood.
International journal of food microbiology - 10 Mar 2007
Shabarinath S, Sanath Kumar H, Khushiramani Rekha, Karunasagar Indrani, Karunasagar Iddya
Abstract excerpt
The prevalence of Salmonella in seafood samples collected from the southwest coast of India was studied by conventional culture and by a DNA based molecular technique, polymerase chain reaction (PCR). While conventional culture techniques detected Salmonella in only 20 out of the 100 samples analyzed, direct enrichment lysate PCR detected 52 as positive for Salmonella. A set of three different PCR primers viz.,...
Topics
- Animals
- Colony Count, Microbial
- Consumer Product Safety
- DNA, Bacterial
- Food Contamination
- Food Microbiology
- Genotype
- Humans
- India
- Phylogeny
- Polymorphism, Restriction Fragment Length