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Ballamoole Krishna Kumar1, Pendru Raghunath, Devananda Devegowda, Vijay Kumar Deekshit, Moleyur Nagarajappa Venugopal, Iddya Karunasagar, Indrani Karunasagar.
Abstract
Thermostable direct hemolysin (TDH) and TDH-related hemolysin (TRH) are considered important virulence factors of Vibrio parahaemolyticus and strains producing either of these or both are considered pathogenic. In this study, we generated monoclonal antibodies (mAbs) against purified TRH recombinant protein of pathogenic V. parahaemolyticus. Sandwich enzyme-linked immunosorbent assays (ELISA) using the hybridoma clone 4B10 showed higher sensitivity of detection compared to other clones. Using mAb 4B10 based sandwich ELISA, we could detect pathogenic V. parahaemolyticus in 41.18% (14 out of 34) of the seafood samples analyzed. PCR targeting the toxR gene showed the presence of V. parahaemolyticus in 64.7% (22 out of 34) seafood samples. Further, PCR targeting the virulence genes showed that 6 seafood samples harboured the tdh gene while 9 harboured the trh gene indicating the presence of pathogenic V. parahaemolyticus. Our results show that mAb 4B10 sandwich ELISA developed in this study could be used as a rapid method for screening seafood samples for the presence of pathogenic V. parahaemolyticus.Entities:
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Year: 2011 PMID： 21276628 DOI： 10.1016/j.ijfoodmicro.2010.12.030
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Int J Food Microbiol ISSN： 0168-1605 Impact factor: 5.277