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ArticleScientific reports2022

Development of high-resolution melting (HRM) assay to differentiate the species of Shigella isolates from stool and food samples.

Babak Pakbin, Afshin Akhondzadeh Basti, Ali Khanjari, Wolfram Manuel Brück, Leila Azimi, Abdollah Karimi

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5 · Who and what money

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6 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.

Babak PakbinInstitute for Life Technologies, University of Applied Sciences Western Switzerland Valais-Wallis, 1950 Sion 2, Sierre, Switzerland.
Afshin Akhondzadeh BastiDepartment of Food Hygiene and Quality of Control, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Tehran, P.O. Box: 14155-6453, Tehran, Iran. aakhond@ut.ac.ir.
Ali KhanjariDepartment of Food Hygiene and Quality of Control, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Tehran, P.O. Box: 14155-6453, Tehran, Iran.
Wolfram Manuel BrückInstitute for Life Technologies, University of Applied Sciences Western Switzerland Valais-Wallis, 1950 Sion 2, Sierre, Switzerland.
Leila AzimiPediatric Infections Research Center, Research Institute of Children's Health, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.
Abdollah KarimiPediatric Infections Research Center, Research Institute of Children's Health, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.
HES-SO Valais-Wallis · CHShahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences · IRUniversity of Tehran · IR

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Shigella species, a group of intracellular foodborne pathogens, are the main causes of bacillary dysentery and shigellosis in humans worldwide. It is essential to determine the species of Shigella in outbreaks and food safety surveillance systems. The available immunological and molecular methods for identifying Shigella species are relatively complicated, expensive and time-consuming. High resolution melting (HRM) assay is a rapid, cost-effective, and easy to perform PCR-based method that has recently been used for the differentiation of bacterial species. In this study, we designed and developed a PCR-HRM assay targeting rrsA gene to distinguish four species of 49 Shigella isolates from clinical and food samples and evaluated the sensitivity and specificity of the assay. The assay demonstrated a good analytical sensitivity with 0.01-0.1 ng of input DNA template and an analytical specificity of 100% to differentiate the Shigella species. The PCR-HRM assay also was able to identify the species of all 49 Shigella isolates from clinical and food samples correctly. Consequently, this rapid and user-friendly method demonstrated good sensitivity and specificity to differentiate species of the Shigella isolates from naturally contaminated samples and has the potential to be implemented in public health and food safety surveillance systems.

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Bacterial Typing TechniquesDNA, BacterialDysentery, BacillaryFecesHumansPolymerase Chain ReactionSensitivity and SpecificityShigellaTransition TemperatureDNA, Bacterial

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