date:Jun 15, 2015
The tool, called Intergenic Sequence Ribotyping, or ISR, is helping improve poultry production and human health internationally, because it helps control Salmonellas presence in the field and in consumer poultry products.
At present, there are other sequence, or DNA-based, methods for serotyping Salmonella. The traditional method, Kauffmann-White (KW), is expensive, is not based on DNA, and is not as accurate as ISR.
KW identifies a particular serotype in only 80 percent of cases, said Ms Guar