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:Four lateral flow assays (LFAs) were evaluated for the detection of purified botulinum neurotoxin A, toxin complex, and unpurified culture supernatant. They included the BioThreat (Tetracore, Rockville, MD), SMART (New Horizons Diagnostics, Columbia, MD), BADD (ADVNT Biotechnologies, Phoenix, AZ), and RAMP (Response Biomedical, Burnaby, BC, Canada) assays. BioThreat and SMART did not detect the purified toxin. The best sensitivity was achieved with the RAMP test (50 ng mL(-1)). BioThreat and SMART measured as low as 10 ng mL(-1) of the toxin complex. Specificity data differed among the tests. BADD gave false-positive signals with uninoculated bacterial culture medium. BioThreat and RAMP were further evaluated with clinical sample matrices (serum, gastric, and rectum contents from pigs). Because of matrix effects and a generally low positive response, the assays are unsuitable for the direct detection of the toxin. However, the LFAs can be a helpful tool in screening bacterial cultures for toxigenic Clostridium botulinum, if further validated according to the laboratory needs.
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Diagn Microbiol Infect Disjournal_title
Diagnostic microbiology and infectious diseaseauthors
Gessler F,Pagel-Wieder S,Avondet MA,Böhnel Hdoi
10.1016/j.diagmicrobio.2006.07.017subject
Has Abstractpub_date
2007-03-01 00:00:00pages
243-9issue
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0732-8893issn
1879-0070pii
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57pub_type
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