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Agri-food Diagnostics

Agri-food Diagnostics: Pathogens

Rapid tests for detection of pathogens in food

Food Control™ qPCR

Detect foodborne pathogens by semi-quantitative qPCR or conventional PCR with easy interpretable lateral flow evaluation.

Minerva Biolabs

Description

etect foodborne pathogens by semi-quantitative qPCR or conventional PCR with easy interpretable lateral flow evaluation.


Features

Target
Salmonella enterica – invasion protein (invA) gene
Yersinia enterocolitica – heat-stable enterotoxin A gene
Shigella spp. – invasion plasmid antigen (ipaH6) gene
Campylobacter spp. – acyl-[acyl-carrier-protein]--UDP-Nacetylglucosamine O-acyltransferase (lpxA) gene
Clostridium perfringens – phospholipase C alpha toxin (plc) gene
Shiga Toxin 1 – stx1 gene
Shiga Toxin 2 – stx2 gene
Escherichia coli O157 – wbdR gene
Escherichia coli O104 – wckD gene
Listeria spp. – invasion associated protein p60 (iap) gene
Listeria monocytogenes – listeriolysin O (hly) gene
Salmonella spp. – spacer-region between 16S and 23S RNA genes

Sensitivity
Down to 10 DNA copies/assay.

Principle
TaqMan® assay based on FAM and HEX labeled probes.

Content
qPCR Mix
Species Mix
Rehydration Buffer
PCR Grade Water
Internal Control
Positive Control

Sample Requirements
Isolated total DNA from potentially contaminated food serves here as starting material, typically after pre-cultivation of the sample growth medium.

Intended Use
For research use only!

Time to result
150 minutes

Cycler
• qTOWER (Analytik Jena)
• TOptical (Analytik Jena)
• Rotor-Gene® (Qiagen)
• Rotor-Gene®6000 (Qiagen)
• LightCycler® (Roche Diagnostics)
• Mastercycler® ep reaplex (Eppendorf)
• CFX Connect™ (Bio-Rad)
• StepOnePlus™, ABI 7500 (Applied Biosystem®)
• Mx3005P (Agilent Technologies)

More details

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Protocols

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