OBJECTIVE In Australia, Salmonella serovar Typhimurium (S. Typhimurium) is the predominant zoonotic serovar in humans and is frequently isolated from layer hens. Vaccination against this serovar has been previously shown to be effective in broilers and the aim of this current study was to assess and determine the best vaccination strategy (live or inactivated) to minimise caecal colonisation by...

BACKGROUND Fungi have a potential of using both as nutritive and medicinal food stuff. Because of containing several therapeutic agents, they are reported to be used for hundreds of years to treat several diseases caused by bacteria, fungi, viruses and parasites. The aim of this study is to determine the in vitro antimicrobial activity of Xylaria hypoxylon, which were collected from Yomra, Trab...

INTRODUCTION S. Concord in Ethiopia. The objective of this study was to determine the aetiology of febrile and diarrhoeic illness in Ethiopian children focussing on Salmonella. METHODOLOGY Paediatric patients (n = 1,225) presenting with diarrhoea or fever from the paediatric outpatient department of Tikur Anbessa University Hospital, Addis Ababa (n = 825), and Jimma University Hospital, South...

Salmonella strains isolated from 1,138 samples representing 28,199 biological materials (stool, urine, blood and other fluids), collected between January 1985 and January 1999 at a reference University Hospital in Ribeirão Preto, São Paulo, Brazil, were studied. The most frequently detected serotypes were Salmonella enterica subspecies enterica serotype 4,5,12:i:- (S. I 4,5,12:i:) (21.2%), S. a...

Probiotics have been demonstrated to be useful to enhance gut health and prevent gastrointestinal infections in humans. Additionally, some multi-strain probiotic combinations have been suggested to have greater efficacy than single strains. The objective of this study is to demonstrate the potential of a combination of the probiotic strains: Bifidobacterium longum subsp. infantis CECT 7210 (bra...

Among serious foodborne outbreaks, Salmonella has the most infections and incidence cases. Because Salmonella is a leading cause of foodborne illness and a zoonotic agent capable of causing gastroenteritis and septicemia, Salmonella detection and identification has become an important subject of research for the poultry industry. Based on the numerous culture protocols to characterize Salmonell...

Was the egg a plausible source for the Salmonella Potsdam outbreak? The paper, Outbreak of S. Potsdam associated with salad dressing at a restaurant (Commun Dis Intell 2003;27:508–512), implicated the egg as the 'most plausible source of S. Potsdam'. No tangible evidence to support this statement was provided and broader possibilities were not considered. The reasons for implicating the eggs we...

This study set out to evaluate the microbiological hazards associated with the foods served on aircraft. To identify the microbiological quality of hot and cold meals prepared worldwide, samples of aircraft meals were monitored for Salmonella between 1989 and 1994, and for indicator bacteria and Staphylococcus aureus, Bacillus cereus and Clostridium perfringens between 1991 and 1994. Additional...