conclusions these findings illustrated the presence and persistence of clonal groups of mrsa strains, in chicken meat in isfahan, iran, that serve as reservoirs to disseminate bacteriophage encoded enterotoxin and virulence agents. results all 116 isolated mrsa strains were discriminated into seven php types consisting of seven common types (cts) and were positive for meca gene. all isolates ha...

Mutant Traits Using a Controlled Vocabulary Kenji Akiyama, Atsushi Kurotani, Kei Iida, Takashi Kuromori, Kazuo Shinozaki and Tetsuya Sakurai* RIKEN Center for Sustainable Resource Science, Yokohama, Kanagawa, 230-0045 Japan Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Kyoto, 606-8501 Japan *Corresponding author: E-mail, [email protected]; Fax, +81-45-503-9665. (Received Septembe...

Local wastewater treatment authorities levy surcharges from their non-residential customers that are based, in part, on the concentration of various pollutants in the customer's wastewater. Blood has long been recognized as the most potent contributor to pollutant loads in chicken processing plant wastewater. Quantification of the impact of blood on wastewater characteristics and sewage surchar...