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FEMS MICROBIOLOGY LETTERS
Volume 259, Issue 2, Pages 201-207Publisher
OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1111/j.1574-6968.2006.00266.x
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quorum sensing; Salmonella; pathogenicity island; diagnostic PCR
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Bacteria communicate with one another and with their host using chemical signalling molecules. This phenomenon is generally described as quorum sensing. A set of primers for PCR detection of Salmonella spp. has been designed using as target the sdiA gene which encodes a signal receptor of the LuxR family. The PCR product (274 bp) was confirmed by sequencing. A number of 81 non-Salmonella strains (representing 24 different species) were tested and gave negative results, while a total of 101 different serotypes of Salmonella (155 strains) tested positive for the presence of the sdiA gene. The sensitivity and specificity of the sdiA-based PCR assay were also checked in artificially contaminated human faecal samples. In this study, we demonstrate that quorum sensing genes can be successfully exploited as diagnostic markers.
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