• Title of article

    Evaluation of a Yersinia adhesion gene (yadA) specific PCR for the identification of enteropathogenic Yersinia enterocolitica

  • Author/Authors

    Neubauer، نويسنده , , Heinrich and Hensel، نويسنده , , Andreas and Aleksic، نويسنده , , Stojanca and Meyer، نويسنده , , Hermann، نويسنده ,

  • Issue Information
    روزنامه با شماره پیاپی سال 2000
  • Pages
    3
  • From page
    225
  • To page
    227
  • Abstract
    A total of 101 Yersinia enterocolitica strains was investigated with a PCR assay [Blais and Phillipe, Food Control, 6 (1995) 211–214] targeting the Yersinia adhesin gene (yadA) responsible for autoagglutination. Compared to the autoagglutination test the PCR assay has a specificity of 100% but a sensitivity of only 70%. This failure might be caused by the sequence heterogeneity of yadA.
  • Keywords
    Autoagglutination test , Yersinia adhesion gene , Y. enterocolitica , PCR
  • Journal title
    International Journal of Food Microbiology
  • Serial Year
    2000
  • Journal title
    International Journal of Food Microbiology
  • Record number

    2108657