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

Detection Methods of Escherichia coli O157:H7

IMMUNOASSAY BASED METHODS

DNA BASED METHODS

EHEC-Tek (Organon Tecknika) VIDAS (bioMerieux Vitek) EHEC O157-ELISA (3M) VIP EHEC (BioControl)   E.coli O157:H7 Via kit (TECRA) Path-Stik E.coli O157 (Celsis) Detex (Molecular Circuitry)

BAX system E.coli O157(Qualicon) GENE-TRAK (Gene-trak) Probelia E. coli O157 (Biocontrol) TAQMAN (PE Applied Biosystems)

LATEX AGGLUTINATION METHODS

E. coli O157 Test Kits (Hardy Diagnostics) Assurance EIA EHEC (BioControl) Premier EHEC (Meridian Diagnostics) EZ Coli (Becton Dickison; cf Difco) ANTI E.coli O157 (Dynal Inc.) REVEAL E.coli O157:H7(Neogen Co.) Transia Card E.coli O157 (GENE-TRAK.) EiaFoss E.coli O157 (Foss Electric A/S)

E.coli O157 Latex test (Oxoid) DRYSPOT E.coli O157 Latex test (Oxoid) VET-RPLA (Unipath Ltd.) E.coli Confirmation (HardyDiagnostics)

E.coli O157 Latex Test (Unipath Ltd.) E.coli O157 Latex test (Remel) CCD ImmunoCard STAT E.coli O157 (Meridian Diagnostics)

BIOCHEMICAL METHODS

Bactident E. coli (Merk) Rapidec.coli (bioMerieux Vitek)

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