Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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10710524 | Journal of Magnetism and Magnetic Materials | 2005 | 8 Pages |
Abstract
The standard method of immunomagnetic separation of pathogenic bacteria from food and environmental matrices processes 1Â ml volumes. Pathogens present at low levels (<1 pathogenic bacteria per ml) will not be consistently detected by this method. Here a flow through immunomagnetic separator (FTIMS) has been designed and tested to process large volume samples (>50Â ml). Preliminary results show that between 70 and 113 times more Escherchia coli O157 are recovered compared with the standard 1Â ml method.
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Authors
Ovidiu Rotariu, Iain D. Ogden, Marion MacRae, Vasile BÄdescu, Norval J.C. Strachan,