TY - CHAP AU - I.C. Morobe AU - C.L. Obi AU - M.A. Nyila AU - M.I. Matsheka AU - B.A. Gashe ED - Jose C. Jimenez-Lopez Y1 - 2012-03-07 PY - 2012 T1 - Molecular Characterization and Serotyping of Listeria monocytogenes with a Focus on Food Safety and Disease Prevention N2 - Biochemical testing necessitates the determination of different parameters, and the identification of the main biological chemical compounds, by using molecular and biochemical tools. The purpose of this book is to introduce a variety of methods and tools to isolate and identify unknown bacteria through biochemical and molecular differences, based on characteristic gene sequences. Furthermore, molecular tools involving DNA sequencing, and biochemical tools based in enzymatic reactions and proteins reactivity, will serve to identify genetically modified organisms in agriculture, as well as for food preservation and healthcare, and improvement through natural products utilization, vaccination and prophylactic treatments, and drugs testing in medical trials. BT - Biochemical Testing SP - Ch. 8 UR - https://doi.org/10.5772/33009 DO - 10.5772/33009 SN - PB - IntechOpen CY - Rijeka Y2 - 2024-04-19 ER -