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JOURNAL OF MICROBIOLOGICAL METHODS
Volume 141, Issue -, Pages 101-107Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.mimet.2017.08.011
Keywords
Salmonella; Serotyping; xTAG; Luminex
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- Hangzhou Science and Technology Bureau [20140633B24]
- Health microbiology key discipline of Health and Family Planning Commission of Hangzhou Municipality, China
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Currently, no protocols or commercial kits are available to determine the serotypes of Salmonella by using Luminex MAGPIX (R). In this study, an xTAG assay for serotype determination of Salmonella suitable for Luminex MAGPIX (R) is described and 228 Salmonella isolates were serotype determined by this xTAG assay. The xTAG assay consists of two steps: 1) Multiplex PCR to amplify simultaneously 0, H and Vi antigen genes of Salmonella, and 2) Magplex-TAG (TM) microsphere hybridization to identify accurately the specific PCR products of different antigens. Compared with the serotyping results of traditional serum agglutination test, the sensitivity and specificity of the xTAG assay were 95.1% and 100%, respectively. The agreement rate of these two assays was 95.2%. Compared with Luminex xMAP (R) Salmonella Serotyping Assay (SSA) kit, the advantages of this xTAG assay are: First, the magnetic beads make it applicable to both the Luminex (R) 100/200 (TM) and MAGPIX (R) systems. Second, only primers rather than both primers and probes are needed in the xTAG assay, and the process of coupling antigen-specific oligonucleotide probes to beads is circumvented, which make the xTAG assay convenient to be utilized by other laboratories. The xTAG assay may serve as a rapid alternative or complementary method for traditional Salmonella serotyping tests, especially for laboratories that utilize the MAGPIX (R) systems.
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