June 2018

Foods, fish and salmonellosis

Foodborne diseases are those caused by the consumption of water and food contaminated by different causal agents such as: viruses, bacteria, parasites, toxins, among others, being considered an important public health problem global due to its incidence and mortality and for several years for the isolation of microorganisms that cause these diseases resistant to antimicrobials. Salmonella species is considered a food...

Author(s): Alejandro De Jesús Cortés-Sánchez and Luis Daniel Espinosa-Chaurand  

June 2018

Response of microbial communities to oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico: A review

Crude oil has become a part of the marine ecosystem through natural seeps and oil spills. Microbial communities have adopted various response mechanisms to adjust to oil spills that contaminate the marine environment and help restore the ecosystem to its original state. These response mechanisms ranges from change in indigenous microbial community composition, change in microbial diversity to gene diversity and...

Author(s): Linda Adzigbli, Hernado P. Bacosa, and Yuewen Deng,

June 2018

Detection of alpha toxin and enterotoxins of Clostridium perfringens isolated from minced meat by real time polymerase chain reaction (PCR)

Clostridium perfringens is one of the most widespread pathogen producing toxins related to variable pathogenic conditions, particularly food poisoning in humans. Thus, this study described the prevalence, enumeration, toxigenic types and antibiotic susceptibility of C. perfringens strains isolated from minced meat in Egypt as well as the validation of a real-time polymerase chain reaction (PCR) test for...

Author(s): Gamal A. Younis, Mona M. Radwan, Rasha M. Elkenany and Marwa H. Elderieny