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Development of strain-level shotgun metagenomics approaches to detect and characterize microbiological contaminants in the context of food safety

Enteritidis strain linked to the outbreak could be obtained, fully characterized, and related to the food and human isolates from the outbreak in a phylogenetic tree containing other Belgian sporadic cases and ...

Shotgun metagenomics as a ONE Health tool for better protecting human health

defined as the study of all genetic material within a sample, using sequencing technologies. Shotgun metagenomics is capable of detecting a wide range of microorganisms in a sample, as well as their ...

Application of a strain-level shotgun metagenomics approach on food samples: resolution of the source of a Salmonella food-borne outbreak

Salmonella SNP analysis strain-level Abstract: Food-borne outbreak investigation currently relies on the time-consuming and challenging bacterial isolation from food, to be able to link food-derived strains to ...

Identifying nanodescriptors to predict the toxicity of nanomaterials: a case study on titanium dioxide

modelling. Agglomerate size as a nanodescriptor was well associated with biological endpoints such as DNA damage and/or cytotoxicity. We conclude that, agglomerate size is an important nanodescriptor to assess ...

Generation and Characterization of Six Recombinant Botulinum Neurotoxins as Reference Material to Serve in an International Proficiency Test.

hardly be compared. In this study, the six BoNT/ A1- F1 prototypes were successfully produced by recombinant techniques, facilitating handling, as well as improving purity, yield, reproducibility and ...

Mild iodine deficiency in pregnancy in Europe and its consequences for cognitive and psychomotor development of children: a review.

hypothyroxinaemia. However, it needs to be noted that it is difficult to establish a direct link between maternal iodine deficiency and maternal hypothyroxinaemia, as well as between maternal iodine deficiency and ...

BSFM 2022- International outbreak of Salmonella Typhimurium linked to a chocolate factory in 2022: Belgian findings

investigation Salmonella Abstract: Introduction A multi-country outbreak caused by monophasic Salmonella Typhimurium is presented. A link with chocolate products from a Belgian factory was established by ...

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