Advances in typing and identification of foodborne pathogens

Abstract

The threats to food safety risks posed by foodborne pathogens have seriously endangered human health and economic stability. The methods employed for fast and efficient detection of foodborne pathogens are important for preventing and controlling foodborne disease outbreaks. Traditional methods of microbial detection and identification are time-consuming and laborious and are insufficient for meeting the needs of foodborne disease outbreak detection. In recent years, there have been notable developments in the technologies for pathogen detection, especially in the fields of molecular biology and sequencing technology. This paper discusses haematological typing, pulsed-field gel electrophoresis, multilocus sequence analysis, clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats (CRISPR), phospholipid fatty acid analysis, and whole-genome sequencing as potential subtyping methods for improving foodborne pathogen detection.