Abstract
The wide application of nucleic acid amplification techniques and the increasing industrial interest toward rapid methods has led to the development and application of PCR based methods for the detection of microbial pathogens in food. In the present paper we describe the development of a multiplex PCR method for simultaneous detection of Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium, Listeria monocytogenes and Escherichia coli O157:H7 in a complex food matrix (liquid whole egg). Four different DNA extraction procedures were evaluated for their application on food and, among these, Chelex resin combined with a DNA purification step were found to better perform on the food system considered. A multiplex PCR system was developed, based on the evaluation and combination of published primer sets, and applied to the simultaneous detection of the target pathogens plus an internal amplification control, both in culture media and in a model food system. The overall system proposed, based on an overnight enrichment step followed by DNA isolation and multiplex PCR, was satisfactorily tested for its specificity and sensitivity and allowed the detection of the presence of bacterial DNA and the identification of the target pathogens down to 10 cells/25 g liquid whole egg.
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