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Emerging and Future Trends and Technologies for the Detection and Typing of Escherichia coli

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Detection and Typing Strategies for Pathogenic Escherichia coli

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Foodborne disease is a major public health concern and will remain so for many years ahead. Future trends in our food systems will see changes that will influence the emergence and reemergence of various pathogens. Surveillance will therefore become vital in observing changing levels of foodborne disease and managing foodborne outbreaks worldwide. As a result, methods to isolate, detect, and type bacterial pathogens will rapidly evolve in order to gain more knowledge of the epidemiology of these pathogens and to subsequently implement controls to prevent disease. The time-consuming nature of traditional culture methods to detect and isolate pathogens from foods has seen many advances in technologies with an aim to find faster, more sensitive and specific, and less labor-intensive assays. Currently, sample preparation remains a challenge where most methods require enrichment steps and significant periods of time for incubation. Real-time detection of pathogens is important to ensure a rapid diagnosis of the disease in patients and to ensure the rapid release of foods into commerce. The main goal for rapid methods is to increase sensitivities in order to avoid enrichments and to test the sample directly for the pathogen. Typing technologies are also being developed to exploit the full potential of the whole or “pangenome” of a pathogen and will potentially replace traditional culture and typing systems in diagnostic laboratories in the future.

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  1. Institute of Environmental Science and Research, Riccarton, Christchurch, New Zealand

    Lucia Rivas

  2. CSIRO Food and Nutrition Flagship, Archerfield, Queensland, Australia

    Glen E. Mellor

  3. CSIRO Food and Nutrition Flagship, Werribee VIC, Victoria, Australia

    Kari Gobius & Narelle Fegan

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Rivas, L., Mellor, G., Gobius, K., Fegan, N. (2015). Emerging and Future Trends and Technologies for the Detection and Typing of Escherichia coli . In: Detection and Typing Strategies for Pathogenic Escherichia coli. SpringerBriefs in Food, Health, and Nutrition. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-2346-5_4

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