Development and Interlaboratories Validation of Event-Specific Quantitative Real-Time PCR Method for Genetically Modified Rice G6H1 Event

2018 ◽  
Vol 66 (30) ◽  
pp. 8179-8186 ◽  
Author(s):  
Litao Yang ◽  
Yu Yang ◽  
Wujun Jin ◽  
Xiujie Zhang ◽  
Xiaying Li ◽  
...  
2013 ◽  
Vol 61 (25) ◽  
pp. 5953-5960 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yuhua Wu ◽  
Litao Yang ◽  
Yinglong Cao ◽  
Guiwen Song ◽  
Ping Shen ◽  
...  

2012 ◽  
Vol 54 (2) ◽  
pp. 493-496 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maria Ballester ◽  
Anna Castelló ◽  
Yuliaxis Ramayo-Caldas ◽  
Josep M. Folch

2007 ◽  
Vol 70 (6) ◽  
pp. 1373-1378 ◽  
Author(s):  
ANNA-CLARA RÖNNER ◽  
HANS LINDMARK

Campylobacter jejuni infection is a significant cause of foodborne gastroenteritis worldwide. Consumption and handling of poultry products is believed to be the primary risk factor for campylobacteriosis. Risk assessments require quantitative data, and C. jejuni is enumerated usually by direct plating, which sometimes allows growth of non-Campylobacter bacteria. The objective of the present study was to develop a quantitative real-time PCR method (q-PCR) for enumerating C. jejuni in chicken rinse without a culturing step. The procedure to obtain the template for the PCR assay involved (i) filtration of 10 ml of chicken rinse, (ii) centrifugation of the sample, and (iii) total DNA extraction from the pellet obtained using a commercial DNA extraction kit. The detection limit of the method was comparable to that for plating 100 μl of chicken rinse on modified charcoal cefoperazone deoxycholate agar, and the detection limit could be further improved 10-fold by concentrating the DNA eluate by ethanol precipitation. A close correlation for spiked chicken rinse was obtained for the results of the quantitative real-time PCR method and direct plating (r = 0.99). The coefficient of correlation for the methods was 0.87 when samples from chicken carcasses on the slaughter line were analyzed, whereas a lower correlation (r = 0.76) was obtained when samples from retail carcasses were analyzed. Greater variation in the proportion of dead and/or viable but not culturable Campylobacter types in the retail samples may explain the decreased correlation between the methods. Overall, the new method is simple and fast and the results obtained are closely correlated with those for direct plating for samples containing a low proportion of dead Campylobacter cells.


BioTechniques ◽  
2008 ◽  
Vol 44 (6) ◽  
pp. 807-809 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nathan J. O'Callaghan ◽  
Varinderpal S. Dhillon ◽  
Philip Thomas ◽  
Michael Fenech

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