The Center for Disease Control estimates 128,000 people in the U.S. are hospitalized annually due to food borne illnesses. This has created a demand for food safety testing targeting the detection of
A quantitative competitive PCR (QC-PCR) assay was developed to detect and quantify Escherichia coli O157:H7 cells. From 10(3) to 10(8) CFU of E. coli O157:H7 cells/ml was quantified in broth or skim m
Cryptococcus spp. are fungal species belonging to Tremellomycetes, Agaricomycotina, Basidiomycota and responsible for one of the most ubiquitous human mycoses, cryptococcosis. Affecting mainly immune
To date no molecular tools are available to identify the adherent-invasive Escherichia coli (AIEC) pathotype, which has been associated with Crohn’s disease and colonizes the intestine of different ho