Contemporary Approaches to the Detection of Foodborne Pathogens.
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.31674/ijbb.2025.v02i04.002Abstract
Even though food preservation and safety methods have improved a lot, many disease outbreaks caused by foodborne pathogens like bacteria, fungi, and viruses still happen around the world. This shows that these pathogens are still a serious threat to public health.
Although there are many reviews on methods for detecting foodborne pathogens, most of them focus mainly on bacteria, even though viruses and other pathogens are equally important .Ready to eat (R.T.E) foods always come in handy and is the surest way in which pathogens in foods are been transmitted. Regardless of the hygiene measures in preparation of these foods and the innovations in food preservation techniques and food safety, there is still an increasing foodborne outbreak that has been linked to R.T.E foods. In recent times, there are lots of research on food borne outbreaks most research focuses on bacteria as the primary source of contaminant with little or no focus on other types of microorganisms like fungi and viruses. Hence, this review will focus on some pathogenic bacteria, fungi and viruses that has been linked to foodborne outbreak. This review will shed more light on how culture-based methods, application of immunoassay methods and nucleic-acid based PCR are useful in the detection of foodborne outbreak. It provides substantial information on how different methods are used in the detection of foodborne diseases.
Keywords:
Foodborne, Pathogens, Diseases, PCR, mmunoassays, Culture-Based, NGSReferences
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