This work has been undertaken to detect the presence of Listeria monocytogenes in both wet and salted fish using
cultural and PCR methods. The detection of a single virulence associated gene is not sufficient to identify
L.monocytogenes [12], hence both genes (iap and hlyA) were targeted individually in this study. Primers targeting
iap gene of L.monocytogenes yielding a 131 bp product, was reported by [5].