A Molecular Tool for Rapid Detection and Traceability of in Fresh Berries and Berry Farm Soils.

Due to recent outbreaks of cyclosporiasis associated with consumption of fresh berries, producers are demanding modern microbiological tools for the rapid and accurate identification of the human pathogen in berries and environmental samples. The aim of the present work was to develop a molecular tool based on a PCR approach for the rapid and accurate detection of . A nested PCR assay was validated for the amplification of a 294 bp size region of the gene from .