Co-enriching microflora associated with culture based methods to detect Salmonella from tomato phyllosphere.

ABSTRACT: The ability to detect a specific organism from a complex environment is vitally important to many fields of public health, including food safety. For example, tomatoes have been implicated numerous times as vehicles of foodborne outbreaks due to strains of Salmonella but few studies have ever recovered Salmonella from a tomato phyllosphere environment. Precision of culturing techniques that target agents associated with outbreaks depend on numerous factors. One important factor to better understand is which species co-enrich during enrichment procedures and how microbial dynamics may impede or enhance detection of target pathogens. We used a shotgun sequence approach to describe taxa associated with samples pre-enrichment and throughout the enrichment steps of the Bacteriological Analytica

SUBMITTER: Ottesen AR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3767688 | biostudies-literature | 2013

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature