A lateral flow assay for identification of Escherichia coli by ribosomal RNA hybridisation

The Analyst ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 139 (5) ◽  
pp. 1063 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christopher Pöhlmann ◽  
Irina Dieser ◽  
Mathias Sprinzl
2013 ◽  
Vol 76 (5) ◽  
pp. 755-761 ◽  
Author(s):  
YOSHITAKA TERAO ◽  
TARO YONEKITA ◽  
NAOKI MORISHITA ◽  
TATSUYA FUJIMURA ◽  
TAKASHI MATSUMOTO ◽  
...  

We developed and evaluated a lateral flow assay (LFA) as a simple and rapid method for direct detection of Escherichia coli O111 in food after enrichment. When cell suspensions of 8 E. coli O111 strains and 77 non–E. coli O111 strains were tested with the LFA, the former all yielded positive results and the latter all yielded negative results. The minimum detection limits for the E. coli O111 strains were 1.8 × 103 to 5.6 × 105 CFU/ml of cell suspension, and the LFA was able to detect live cultures or those killed by autoclaving at nearly the same level of sensitivity. To evaluate the ability of LFA to detect its target in food, enrichment cultures of meat samples inoculated with 10-fold serial dilutions of E. coli O111 were tested with the LFA and PCR. Even when there were very few E. coli O111 cells in the meat samples (1.6 × 100 to 1.6 × 101 CFU/25 g of food), when they were cultured in modified E. coli broth with novobiocin for 22 h at 42°C, the LFA yielded positive results that corresponded to the PCR results. Although the LFA requires further evaluation and field study, these results suggest that this assay has sufficient sensitivity and specificity. This procedure can be completed with a one-step incubation after the test strip has been inserted into the sample after 22 h of culture, whereas the standard culture method requires multiple cultures, skilled personnel, a well-equipped laboratory, and 4 or 5 days. The speed and simplicity of this LFA make it suitable for use as part of routine screening assays in the food industry.


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Lei Zhang ◽  
Liming Hu ◽  
Keyu Xing ◽  
Xuefei Lu ◽  
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Vol 93 (3) ◽  
pp. 251-256 ◽  
Author(s):  
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W. Chen ◽  
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