August 2009

Comparison of Norwegian poultry, waterborne and clinical isolates of Campylobacter jejuni by ribotyping

Campylobacteriosis is the most frequently occurring food and waterborne gastroenteritis in Norway and 90% of cases are caused by Campylobacter jejuni. Campylobacteriosis is epidemiologically associated with use of non-disinfected water and consumption of contaminated poultry. In order to provide molecular epidemiological support for this association isolates from local poultry and water were compared with human...

Author(s): Olav Rosef, Algimantas Paulauskas, Nils Grude, Camilla Haslekås and Andrew Jenkins

August 2009

Simple method to study the mechanism of thermal and non thermal bactericidal action of microwave radiations on different bacterial species

The present study was based on the investigations to determine whether the bactericidal effect of microwave radiations on bacteria was either thermal or due to microwaves. It was also investigated which bacterial sp is more sensitive to microwave. Five bacterial species, Proteus vulgaris PP25D, Staphylococcus aureus bgh010, Bacillu subtilis ase98, Escherchia coli TRE04 andCorynebacterium...

Author(s): Arifa Tahir, Bushra Mateen, Salih Univerdi, Ozer KaraGoban and Mehmet Zengin