The presence of large amounts of probiotic bacteria in a sample may interfere with the detection of undesirable microorganisms. To illustrate this, infant formula with various strains of probiotic bacteria and the corresponding probiotic culture powders and premixes were artificially contaminated with low levels of Salmonella. Recovery of Salmonella was generally very poor when the conventional...

a bstra ct   background: although today parents’ participation in taking care of hospitalized children is considered as an indispensable principle, it is still among the concepts with no consensus about. the main objective of this study is to define parents’ participation in taking care of hospitalized children.   materials and methods: the concept of “parents’ participation in taking care of h...

metabolomics studies provide useful information about health and disease status. metabolite based investigations on various cancers is a powerful approach to diagnosis, prognosis and therapy of cancer diseases. recently by using advanced analytical techniques such as nmr and ms and its hyphenation methods, global metabolic profiling of diseases has been possible. it is predictable that internat...