The guarantee of food safety and quality along the food chain is a principal demand of the
citizen. Fundamental aspects in food safety and quality, such as the presence of pathogens …

1. In this study the effect of a blend of essential oils (EO) comprising 15 g/tonne thymol and 5
g/tonne cinnamaldehyde on the performance and intestinal microbiota of broilers was …

The enteric bacterium and potential human pathogen, Escherichia coli, is known to persist in
tropical soils and coastal waters. Vibrio cholerae causes the disease cholera and inhabits …

A very sensitive and highly specific heterogeneous immunoassay system, based on surface-
enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) and gold nanoparticles, was developed for the …

Plasmid pBI143, a potential human-specific microbial source tracking marker, has previously
been tested only in the USA. This study evaluated the performance of the pBI143 marker in …

In this study, the adsorption-elution method was modified to concentrate viral particles in
water samples and investigate the contamination of groundwater with norovirus genogroup …

METHODS: Twenty patients undergoing diagnostic colonoscopy with endoscopically and
histologically normal mucosa were recruited to the study, 14 subjects of which also supplied …

There is growing interest in the application of rapid quantitative polymerase chain reaction
(qPCR) and other PCR-based methods for recreational water quality monitoring and …

Salmonella enterica is a major cause of gastroenteritis usually caused by animal-based
contaminated foods. Since the current passive surveillance is not sufficient to detect all …

Comprehensive data on bacterial and viral pathogens of diarrhea and studies applying
culture-independent methods for examining antibiotic resistance in wastewater are lacking …