title: Typing of food-borne Listeria monocytogenes by the optimized repetitive extragenic palindrome-based polymerase chain reaction.
abstract: The repetitive extragenic palindrome-based polymerase chain reaction was optimized for typing Listeria monocytogenes by 1) using the QlAamp method to increase the reproducibility of DNA isolation, 2) running PCR with three different DNA concentrations in parallel, 3) using antibody-protected therrnostable DNA polymerase to reduce non-specific priming, and 4) using an improved temperature programme to increase the amplification yield. When applied to 42 L. monocytogenes strains isolated from food in the Czech and Slovak republics during 1999-2000, profiles of 7-15 DNA fragments of 330-3,310 bp were amplified. Based on REP-profiles, strains (serotypes 1/2 and 4) could be divided into 12 groups.
authors.affiliation: Department of Microbiology and Chemistry, Food Research Institute, Bratislava, Slovakia.
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Pangallo
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Karpísková
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Turna
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Kuchta
mesh_terms: D015373:Bacterial Typing Techniques; D016172:DNA Fingerprinting; D004269:DNA, Bacterial / Q000032:analysis* / Q000235:genetics; D005516:Food Microbiology; D006801:Humans; D008089:Listeria monocytogenes / Q000145:classification* / Q000235:genetics / Q000302:isolation & purification; D016133:Polymerase Chain Reaction / Q000379:methods*; D012091:Repetitive Sequences, Nucleic Acid / Q000235:genetics*; D015203:Reproducibility of Results
chemical_list: D004269:DNA, Bacterial