Marshfield Food Safety Shows Increased Accuracy in Salmonella Strain Typing with PathoGenetix RESOLUTION System
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"The RESOLUTION System could become a very powerful tool for the food industry," Dr. Radcliff said. "The ease of use is great for the workflow in the laboratory. The robustness and the ability of the instrument to identify multiple strains in a sample or to identify strains from a secondary enrichment rather than a pure isolate make it very appealing." In addition, Radcliff noted the tremendous value for
"The speed at which the RESOLUTION System can confirm and identify pathogens in screen-test positive samples will enable food producers to react much more quickly and proactively than with current confirm/ID methods," said
The RESOLUTION Microbial Genotyping System is the first commercial application of PathoGenetix's proprietary Genome Sequence Scanning™ (GSS™) technology, and has been developed for food safety testing in the food industry and in public health foodborne illness outbreak investigations. The RESOLUTION System provides confirmation of food pathogens in enriched samples taken from presumptive positive screening tests, and identifies the molecular serotype and strain type information of the target bacteria in just five hours.
The bacterial strain information provided by the RESOLUTION System is comparable to pulsed field gel electrophoresis (PFGE), the current gold standard for pathogen typing in foodborne illness outbreak investigation and response. Unlike PFGE, however, GSS is culture independent, and fully automated from sample preparation to final report. As a result, the RESOLUTION System has the potential to greatly reduce the time, complexity and skill-level required to identify foodborne pathogens in both food industry testing and public health outbreak investigations.
In February, PathoGenetix also delivered an early commercial version of the RESOLUTION System to the
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