The presence of food-borne pathogens, Escherichia coli 0157:H7, Staphylococcus aureus, Salmonella species, Campylobacter jejuni and non-pathogenic E. coli, in 132 home cooked food samples consisting of maize flour porridge (MFP), (n=41), fish (n=37), vegetables (n=28), beans (n=13) and "Others" (n=13), collected from 6 villages in Lungwena, Malawi was investigated. It was found that 35% of the ...

QUESTION After hearing about outbreaks of illness resulting from Listeria and Salmonella, many of my patients are wondering about the risks of food-borne illnesses during pregnancy and what they can do to reduce their chances of contracting them. ANSWER Although heating or cooking food is the best way to inactivate food-borne pathogens, improved standards and surveillance have reduced the pre...

A simple, highly-automated instrument system used for on-site detection of foodborne pathogens based on fluorescence was designed, fabricated, and preliminarily tested in this paper. A corresponding method has been proved effective in our previous studies. This system utilizes a light-emitting diode (LED) to excite fluorescent labels and a spectrometer to record the fluorescence signal from sam...

This research aimed to evaluate the in vitro antibacterial activity of methanol extracts Rhus coriaria L. (sumac) and Salvia urmiensis Bunge against some food-borne pathogens, survey phytochemical constituents extracts, their drug targets pathogens. The was evaluated six pathogens using agar well diffusion broth microdilution methods. Both exhibited highest obtained by sumac Staphylococcus aure...

Several factors have hindered effective use of information and resources related to food safety due to inconsistency among semantically heterogeneous data resources, lack of knowledge on profiling of food-borne pathogens, and knowledge gaps among research communities, government risk assessors/managers, and end-users of the information. This paper discusses technical aspects in the establishmen...

Storage and preservation of food products is posing a great challenge to processing industry. In majority cases, the shelf life foods being compromised by borne pathogens packing material used for storage food. Hence, there need find alternate strategies overcome existing technologies possible solution combat menace pathogens. The recent surge in technological innovations has revolutionized app...

nosocomial infection and its heavy financial cost is a well recognized problem. a variety of sources of organisms involved in nosocomial infection have been identified in recent years. one potential route of bacterial infection is contamination. in order to assess the importance of food contamination, we carried out a survey of bacterial examination of food and the kitchen environment of 14 hos...