Rapid detection of Salmonella Typhimurium through recombinase polymerase
amplification from food sample s
Abstract
Salmonella is a major pathogen worldwide causing acute foodborne
outbreaks. Traditional identification methods, however, are
time-consuming and faced complexity to detect contamination of bacteria
in the food supply chain timely. We herein aimed to develop a method for
rapid and robust detection of Salmonella Typhimurium in milk and chicken
meat based on recombinase polymerase amplification (RPA) integrated with
agarose gel electrophoresis (AGE). Three primers pairs were designed
which function both in RPA as well as in polymerase chain reaction
(PCR). A total number of 254 S. Typhimurium field isolates from various
sources of North Eastern Region (NER) of India were evaluated using both
RPA and PCR for validating the assay. The results were consistent in RPA
and PCR-based detection using crude DNA obtained by a simple boiling
method without any purification step. The RPA-AGE showed versatility
functioning at 350C to 410C, and at the temperature of 370C, it only
took 5 min of amplification to reach the test threshold of amplicon. The
established method had both a good specificity and a sensitivity of 10fg
DNA per reaction of 15µL volume. It showed high sensitivity when
artificially inoculated in fresh chicken samples even at 10-9 fold
dilutions containing 1.95 X 101 to 1.95 X
104 cfu/mL. There was no cross-reactivity with the
other four Salmonella serovars and seven bacterial pathogens tested. To
our knowledge, this is the first report of reliable serovar specific
detection of Salmonella Typhimurium by RPA using crude DNA extracted by
a simple boiling method.