Advanced Techniques in Biology & Medicine
Open Access
ISSN: 2379-1764
ISSN: 2379-1764
Christopher A Elkins
Tanzania
Review Article
Advancements in Microarray Utility for Detection and Tracking of Foodborne Microbes in the Genomic Era
Author(s): Baoguang Li, Isha R Patel, Ben D Tall and Christopher A Elkins
Baoguang Li, Isha R Patel, Ben D Tall and Christopher A Elkins
Outbreaks caused by foodborne microbes pose serious public health and food safety concerns worldwide. There is a great demand for rapid, sensitive and high-throughput methods to detect and track these pathogens in food, water and other environments. Recent advances in DNA genomic technology have enabled high-throughput analyses of strains by capturing total genomic content of strains and with concomitant comparative phylogenies. Microarrays are particularly adept for distilling large amounts of genomic DNA sequence information such as the gene(s) or genetic traits of hundreds of foodborne isolates in a single experiment. Hence, over the past two decades, microarray technology has advanced tremendously due to accessibility to thousands of complete and draft microbial genomes and this progress has led to the design and manufacturing of newer microarrays which can now identify gene seque.. View More»
DOI:
10.4172/2379-1764.1000239