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JOURNAL OF FOOD PROTECTION
Volume 74, Issue 3, Pages 403-409Publisher
INT ASSOC FOOD PROTECTION
DOI: 10.4315/0362-028X.JFP-10-355
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- University of Maryland, Joint Institute of Food Safety and Nutrition
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To evaluate a simplified serotyping scheme, we used a combination of an antibody-based serogrouping assay that identified only type 1 and type 4 strains and a multiplex PCR-based serogrouping assay to analyze 362 L. monocytogenes isolates collected over more than 20 years. The multiplex PCR assay also incorporated a set of primers specific for L. monocyto genes hlyA gene to verify the species identification of these isolates. A subset (n = 120) of these isolates were also serotyped with the Denka Seiken serotyping scheme, which is often considered the gold standard for serotyping of L. monocytogenes. The results indicate that the multiplex PCR-based assay, in combination with an antibody-based serogrouping assay, correctly identified serotypes of 96% of the previously serotyped isolates. Compared with the Denka Seiken method, the combination method also performed better in identifying serotypes of 120 previously unserotyped L. monocytogenes isolates. Thus, the combination scheme appears to be a simple and rapid way to identify serotypes 1/2a, 1/2b, 1/2c, 3a, 3b, 3c, and 4b isolates, which are the predominant L. monocytogenes serotypes found in food, environmental, and clinical samples.
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