Abstract
ABSTRACT Listeria monocytogenes is a common foodborne pathogen that presents in various food products, posing important threat to public health. The aim of this study was to establish a rapid and sensitive method with visualization to detect L. monocytogenes based on polymerase spiral reaction (PSR). Primers targeting conserved hlyA gene sequence of L. monocytogenes were designed based on bioinformatics analyses on the current available L. monocytogenes genomes. The isothermal amplification PSR can be completed under constant temperature (65ᵒC) within 60 min with high specificity and sensitivity. Twenty-five reference strains were used to evaluate the specificity of the developed reaction. The results showed that the sensitive of the reaction for L. monocytogenes in purified genomic DNA and artificially contaminated food samples were 41 pg/μL and 103 CFU/mL, respectively. It was 100-fold more sensitive than conventional PCR. In conclusion, this novel PSR method is rapid, cost-efficient, timesaving, and applicable on artificially contaminated food samples, providing broad prospects into the detection of foodborne microbes with the promising on-site inspection.
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