Highly Sensitive Suspension Immunoassay for Multiplex Detection, Differentiation, and Quantification of Eight <i>Staphylococcus aureus</i> Enterotoxins (SEA to SEI).

ABSTRACT: Staphylococcal enterotoxins (SEs) are major contributors to foodborne intoxications. Reliable detection methods for SEs are essential to maintain food safety and protect public health. Since the heat-stable toxins also exert their toxic effect in the absence of the bacterium, reliance on DNA detection alone can be misleading: it does not allow for determining which specific toxins encoded by a given strain are produced and epidemiologically linked with a given outbreak. Commercially available diagnostic assays for SE detection are so far limited in sensitivity and specificity as well as in the range of targeted toxins (SEA-SEE), thus non-targeted SEs linked to foodborne illness remain undetected at the protein level. This study aimed to develop a highly sensitive and specific multiplex sus

SUBMITTER: Dettmann P 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12197356 | biostudies-literature | 2025 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature