Enterobacter sakazakii (Cronobacter spp.) is an opportunistic pathogen, which can cause rare, but life-threatening infections in neonates and infants through feeding of a contaminated milk formula. We isolated 67 phages from environmental samples and tested their lytic host range on a representative collection of 40 E. sakazakii strains. A cocktail of five phages prevented the outgrowth of 35 o...

Cronobacter sakazakii is an emerging and opportunistic foodborne pathogen that causes severe infantile diseases, including meningitis, necrotizing enterocolitis, septicemia. It has been reported in numerous countries around the world, those Africa. Although it isolated from food, environmental clinical samples across Africa, most implicated source of C. infection outbreaks globe consumption con...

Due to the lack of specific genes for rapid detection methods Cronobacter sakazakii in food samples, whole genome sequence analysis was performed this investigation using basic local alignment search tool. Forty-two DNA fragments unique C. were mined, then primers designed and screened by PCR loop-mediated isothermal amplification (LAMP). Two primer sets, CS1 CS31, found as stable primers, with...

2 Department of Microbiology, Institute of Plant Biology, University of Zürich, 9 Winterthurerstasse 190, 8057 Zürich, Switzerland 10 11 12 13 14 *Corresponding author. Mailing address: Institute for Food Safety and Hygiene, 15 Winterthurerestrasse 272, 8057 Zürich, Switzerland; Phone: +41 44 635 86 51; Fax: +41 44 635 16 89 08 ; E-Mail: [email protected] 17 18 19

Cronobacter spp. are emerging foodborne pathogens that cause severe diseases. However, information on contamination in quick-frozen foods China is limited. Therefore, we studied the prevalence, molecular characterization, and antimicrobial susceptibility of 576 food samples collected from 39 cities China. were found 18.75% (108/576) samples, degree total positive was 5.82 MPN/g. The level froze...

Background: Herbal teas are produced and sold in packaged or unpackaged forms all over the world. The aim of this study was microbial evaluation of Turkish herbal teas before and after infusion in boiled water. Methods: A total of 20 packaged and unpackaged samples of Turkish herbal teas, including chamomile, salvia, green, mix, apple, mate, ginger, linden, fennel, and senna tea were collected...