Food Safety Cooperative Extension Service Department of Food Science and Human Nutrition

Detection of Staphylococcus aureus

DNA BASED METHODS

Accuprobe S. aureus (GenProbe Inc.) Nucleic Acid Hybridization

GENE-TRAK Colorimetric (GENE-TRAK) Nucleic Acid Hybridization TAQMAN (PE Applied Biosystems) PCR

IMMUNOASSAY BASED METHODS

Staphylococcus VIA (TECRA) Immunoassay Staphylococcus ET VIA (TECRA) Immunoassay Staphylase (Oxoid) Immunoassay

VIDAS-ST ET(bioMerieux Vitek) Immuno-fluorescence Transia Tube SET test (GENE-TRAK) Immunoassay

IMMUNO-LATEX AGGLUTINATION BASED METHODS

SET-RPLA (Unipath Ltd.) Latex agglutination Staph-Rapid Test (Roche, Basel) Latex agglutination Staphylex (Unipath Ltd.) Latex agglutination Slidex Staph kit (bioMerieux Vitek) Latex agglutination Staphylococcus Latex (HardyDiagnostics) Latex agglutination

Monostaph (Bionor A/S.) Latex agllutination Rida-Screen (R-Biopharm GmbH Darmstadt.) Latex agglutination DRYSPOT Staphytect Plus (Oxoid) Latex agglutination Staphytect (Oxoid) Latex agglutination Slide Agglutination test (Becton Dickinson) Immunoassay on Slide

BIOCHEMICAL METHODS AND OTHERS

Petrifilm Rapid S. aureus method (3M ) Biochemical reaction

Staphylococcus Hand Checker (Sani-tech) Biochemical reaction (Carbon source untilization)

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