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Foodborne pathogenic bacteria are one of the main factors causing food safety issues. The rapid and accurate detection of pathogenic bacteria using molecular techniques is an effective and powerful strategy for preventing and controlling outbreaks of foodborne diseases, thereby ensuring food safety. This article summarizes the rapid and efficient molecular diagnostic techniques for detecting pathogenic bacteria, including polymerase chain reaction and its derivatives, isothermal amplification, DNA hybridization, genomic sequencing, and Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeat (CRISPR)/CRISPR-associated (CRISPR/Cas)-based detection technique. Through a comparative analysis of the technical principles, advantages, and potential limitations of these diagnostic methods, as well as an outlook on the future development directions for molecular biological detection technology, which will provide a valuable reference for developing more accurate, convenient, and sensitive methods for foodborne pathogens detection, and will help better address the challenges posed by foodborne diseases, thereby ensuring public health and safety.
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Ye, Y., Li, L., Chen, Y. et al. Molecular methods for rapid detection and identification of foodborne pathogenic bacteria. World J Microbiol Biotechnol 41, 175 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11274-025-04396-6
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