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Abstract
A Dynal core method has been established using Dynabeads anti-Salmonella to detect
Salmonella from all categories of food samples. The protocol consists of the standard
pre-enrichment of samples in buffered peptone water followed by immunomagnetic separation
and subsequent selective enrichment of the bead-bacteria complexes in Rappaport-Vassiliadis
Soya Peptone broth before plating onto Salmonella selective media. This modified IMS
cultural method is intended to replace or augment traditional cultural methods used
for Salmonella detection due to its specificity and increased sensitivity. The optional
direct plating of bead-bacteria complexes onto solid media using a swab-streak technique
is suitable for processed foods or samples known to have a history of very low resident
flora. In an evaluation using 100 naturally contaminated samples, this IMS core method
detected 39 of the 44 positive samples detected by all the methods combined, compared
to 31 detected by the conventional ISO 6579 reference method. Furthermore, in ten
different food matrices inoculated with low levels (1-5 cells/25 g) of twenty Salmonella
serovariants, frozen for one month before being examined, the IMS core method, showed
a 90% concordance with the ISO method and isolated two more Salmonella positive samples
than the conventional ISO method.