objective: alpha-thalassemia is one of the most prevalent hemoglobin disorders in the world and it is a common hereditary condition caused by deletion of one or more α-globin genes. common α-thalassemia deletions like 3.7 kb, 4.2 kb, 20.5 kb and med can be detected by multiplex pcr. there are, however, some unknown deletions that can not be detected by the mentioned method or even by direct dna...

background contamination of therapeutic recombinant proteins with residual host cell dna must be controlled under the regulatory standards. objectives the current study established a new rapid, sensitive real time polymerase chain reaction (pcr) approach to measure the reliably of the residual escherichia coli (e. coli) host cell genomic dna in the recombinant streptokinase and alfa interferon ...

background and objective: due to contagiousness of pertussis, a rapid and sensitive method for diagnosis is required to initiate the treatment and interrupt its transmission. materials and methods: to detect b. pertussis strains, we used two real-time pcr targeting is 481 and bp283 sequences and compared factors influencing culture and real-time pcr results. results: totally, 779 specimens were...

In this study, food samples were intentionally contaminated with Escherichia coli O157:H7, and then DNA was isolated by using four commercial kits. The isolated DNA samples were compared by using real-time PCR detection of the Shiga toxin genes. The four kits tested worked similarly.

The rapid and accurate identification of Escherichia coli O157:H7 strains is central to reducing the impact of outbreaks. A real-time PCR-based approach to differentiating major outbreak lineages of O157 with novel single-nucleotide polymorphisms is described. The utility of this method is in detection of hypervirulent strains in cases of clinical disease.

Molecular beacons (MBs) are oligonucleotide probes that fluoresce upon hybridization. In this paper, we described the development of a real-time PCR assay to detect the presence of Escherichia coli O157:H7 using these fluorogenic reporter molecules. MBs were designed to recognize a 26-bp region of the rfbE gene, coding for an enzyme necessary for O-antigen biosynthesis. The specificity of the M...

A commercially available real-time, rapid PCR test was evaluated for its ability to detect Escherichia coli O157. Both the sensitivity and specificity of the assay were 99% for isolates in pure culture. The assay detected 1 CFU of E. coli O157:H7 g(-1) in artificially inoculated bovine feces following enrichment.

A DNA piezoelectric biosensing method for real-time detection of Escherichia coli O157:H7 in a circulating-flow system was developed in this study. Specific probes [a 30-mer oligonucleotide with or without additional 12 deoxythymidine 5'-monophosphate (12-dT)] for the detection of E. coli O157:H7 gene eaeA, synthetic oligonucleotide targets (30 and 104 mer) and PCR-amplified DNA fragments from ...