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Detection and discrimination of five E. coli pathotypes using a combinatory SYBR® Green qPCR screening system
subsequently evaluated on four food matrices artificially contaminated with pathogenic E. coli. It allowed the detection of an initial contamination level as low as 2 to 7 cfu of STEC /25 g of food matrix after ...
A pan-European ring trial to validate an International Standard for detection of Vibrio cholerae, Vibrio parahaemolyticus and Vibrio vulnificus in seafoods
International Journal of Food Microbiology (2018) Keywords: Biochemical methods Conventional PCR Oysters Prawns Real-time PCR seafood Vibrios Abstract: Globally, vibrios represent an important and ...
Food-Borne Outbreak Investigation and Molecular Typing: High Diversity of Staphylococcus aureus Strains and Importance of Toxin Detection
electrophoresis (PFGE) SEA SEB SEC SED staphylococcal food poisoning (SFP) Staphylococcus aureus enterotoxins Abstract: Staphylococcus aureus is an important aetiological agent of food intoxications in the European ...
World Health Organization estimates of the relative contributions of food to the burden of disease due to selected foodborne hazards: A structured expert elicitation
animals, by humans, and via environmental routes including water. This paper describes an expert elicitation study conducted by the FERG Source Attribution Task Force to estimate the relative contribution of ...
Toxoplasma gondii in stranded marine mammals from the North Sea and Eastern Atlantic Ocean: Findings and diagnostic difficulties
samples were tested for specific antibodies using a modified agglutination test (MAT), a commercial multi-species enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) and an immunofluorescence assay (IFA). Out of 193 ...
RNA sequencing-based transcriptional overview of xerotolerance in Cronobacter sakazakii SP291.
a prominent secondary bacterial desiccation response, was highly upregulated in desiccated C. sakazakii. C. sakazakii SP291 ΔotsAB was significantly inhibited compared with the isogenic wild type in an ...