Screening Food Products for More Than One Pathogen at a Time

question 32

Multiple Choice

Screening food products for more than one pathogen at a time can be achieved by using:

• A) real-time PCR with a forward and reverse primer pair
• B) multiplex PCR with carefully designed primer pairs targeting species-specific genes
• C) multiplex PCR with random hexamers as primers
• D) quantitative PCR with a universal forward/reverse primer pair
• E) none of the above

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