Does pre-incubation in selective-enrichment media improve the detection of diarrheagenic Escherichia coli using the RIDA®GENE PCR?

• Main Authors: Neele J. Froböse (Author), Ioana D. Olaru (Author), Julia Sophie Schneider (Author), Wenlan Zhang (Author), Alexander Mellmann (Author), Franziska Schuler (Author), Tobias Grebe (Author), Frieder Schaumburg (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Elsevier, 2023-03-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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We aimed to investigate whether a selective pre-PCR enrichment step improves test performance of RIDA®GENE EHEC/EPEC to detect diarrheagenic Escherichia coli from stool samples. Each of the 250 stool samples was analyzed for the presence of stx1/2 and eae both with and without pre-PCR enrichment in...