Abstract
The potential for foodborne infectious disease outbreaks has increased not only on a local scale but also on a regional and international scale. Simple, rapid, and accurate methods to enumerate pathogenic bacteria in food and drink are required to prevent the spread of these bacteria. Here, I describe applications of a microfluidic device for on-chip fluorescent staining and semiautomated counting of target bacteria in food samples.
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This work was supported by the JSPS KAKENHI (Grant numbers JP26670062 and 18K11688), the Kurozumi Medical Foundation, the River Foundation, the Lake Biwa-Yodo River Water Quality Preservation Organization and the Kieikai Research Foundation.
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Yamaguchi, N. (2019). Rapid On-Site Detection and Quantification of Foodborne Pathogens Using Microfluidic Devices. In: Bridier, A. (eds) Foodborne Bacterial Pathogens. Methods in Molecular Biology, vol 1918. Humana, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-9000-9_5
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