“…Primer pair DLH 120 and DLH 125 ( Table 1 ) designed by Berg et al [ 17 ] were used to amplify a 619 bp fragment of hrpF gene region. For specific amplification of the hrpF region, a GoTaq ® G2 Flexi kit (Promega, Madison, WI, USA) was used as described in Eichmeier et al [ 18 ]. The reaction mixture contained 10.5 µL of nuclease-free water (Ambion, Foster City, CA, USA), 4 µL 5× for polymerase, 0.7 µL 5× Green GoTaq ® G2 Flexi Buffer (Promega, Madison, WI, USA), 0.2 µL GoTaq ® G2 Flexi DNA polymerase (5 U·µL −1 ) (Promega, Madison, WI, USA), 1.2 µL MgCl 2 (25 mM) (Promega, Madison, WI, USA), 0.2 µL of dNTPs mix (10 mM) (MCLAB, San Francisco, SF, USA), 1 µL of each primer (10 µM) and 2 µL of template DNA, total volume 20.8 µL.…”