Thermo Scientific™ PET-RPLA Toxin Detection Kit

Description

• Detect enterotoxin type A of Clostridium perfringens with Thermo Scientific™ Oxoid™ Clostridium perfringens Enterotoxin type A Reversed Passive Latex Agglutination Kit (PET-RPLA)
• The technique of reversed passive latex agglutination (RPLA) enables soluble antigens such as bacterial toxins to be detected in an agglutination assay
• Food poisoning can result from eating foods contaminated with Clostridium perfringens
• The ingested cells multiply in the patient’s intestines and produce spores
• The production of enterotoxin is associated with this spore-forming process
• It is, therefore, important to detect the enterotoxin in fecal specimens obtained from the patient or in the culture fluid of the bacterial isolates
• Use Clostridium perfringens Enterotoxin type A RPLA test for simple and reliable detection of Clostridium perfringens in fecal samples or culture filtrates
• Simple – easy to implement Visual – easy to read results The direct detection of C.perfringens enterotoxins in feces is the most reliable method due to the much larger amount of toxin formed in vivo
• The culture method is less reliable due to problems in encouraging C
• perfringens to produce sufficient toxins in artificial media
• Reversed passive latex agglutination (RPLA) has been reported to be a reliable method for the detection of C.perfringens enterotoxin
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