A novel approach for simultaneous detection of the most common food-borne pathogens by multiplex qPCR

Authors

  • Emir Hodzic School of Veterinary Medicine, University of California, Davis, U.S.A. https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6073-4052
  • Aida Glavinic Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Sarajevo, Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8661-7180
  • Cara Wademan School of Veterinary Medicine, University of California, Davis, U.S.A.

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.17305/bb.2022.8693

Keywords:

Food-borne pathogens, multiplex qPCR, live and dead bacteria, sample concentration

Abstract

Food contaminated with bacterial pathogens is a great threat to human health and food spoilage, having an impact on public health and the food industry. Research in food safety seeks to develop a practical, rapid, and sensitive detection technique for food-borne pathogens. In the past few decades, real-time quantitative polymerase chain reaction (qPCR) has been developed, and multiplex qPCR is a preferred feature. Multiplex qPCR enables the simultaneous amplification of many targets of interest in one reaction by using more than one pair of primers. In this study, we have developed and evaluated a hydrolysis (TaqMan) probe-based system for simultaneous detection of eight of the most common food-borne pathogens in a single-step procedure by multiplex qPCR. A multicolor combinational probe coding (MCPC) strategy was utilized that allows multiple fluorophores to label different probes in combinatorial manner. This strategy enabled simultaneous detection, identification, and quantification of targeted genes. The efficiency of the individual qPCR reactions for each target gene had values comparable to those established for multiplex qPCR, with detection limits of approximately < 10 copies of DNA per reaction. Pathogen load helps to predict bacteriological quality status in food products and serves to validate the efficiency of procedures to minimize or eliminate their presence, so newly developed multiplex qPCR was quantitative for each pathogen. During sample preparation, a step to concentrate the target organism from a relatively large sample size, remove all potential PCR inhibitors, and yield samples in a volume suitable for qPCR was incorporated.

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03-07-2023

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A novel approach for simultaneous detection of the most common food-borne pathogens by multiplex qPCR . Biomol Biomed [Internet]. 2023 Jul. 3 [cited 2024 Dec. 6];23(4):640–648. Available from: https://www.bjbms.org/ojs/index.php/bjbms/article/view/8693