Salmonella ranks high among the pathogens causing foodborne disease outbreaks.
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Salmonella contributed to …

Quantitative microbial risk assessment (QMRA) is an important approach for food safety in
which risk and factors that inffuence food safety are identified. The goal is to provide an …

Once feared as a deadly intracellular bacterium with the extraordinary capacity to survive a
wide array of arduous external stressors, Listeria monocytogenes is increasingly recognized …

Recently, ethidium monoazide (EMA) has been proposed as a means of reducing the real-
time PCR signal originating from free DNA and dead bacterial cells by selectively entering …

The diagnostic value of a multiplex real‐time PCR for the detection of Entamoeba histolytica,
Giardia lamblia and Cryptosporidium parvum/Cryptosporidium hominis was evaluated by …

Aim: To develop and validate high throughput methods for the direct enumeration of viable
and culturable Salmonella and Escherichia coli O157: H7 in ground beef, carcass, hide and …

Escherichia coli (E. coli) is a prevalent enteric bacterium and a necessary organism to
monitor for food safety and environmental purposes. Developing efficient and specific …

A large set of nucleic acid detection methods with good sensitivity and specificity are now
available for the detection of pathogens in clinical, food and environmental samples. Given …

Culture‐based Salmonella detection takes at least 4 d to complete. The use of TaqMan®
probes allows the real‐time PCR technique to be a rapid and sensitive way to detect …

Real-time PCR-based methods have been frequently used to detect and enumerate
foodborne pathogens. However, these techniques have a major drawback since they cannot …