Campylobacter Species, Microbiological Source Tracking and Risk Assessment of Bacterial pathogens

BacWGSTdb, a database for genotyping and source tracking bacterial pathogens

Whole genome sequencing has become one of the routine methods in molecular epidemiological practice. In this study, we present BacWGSTdb (http://bacdb.org/BacWGSTdb), a bacterial whole genome sequence typing database which is designed for clinicians, clinical microbiologists and hospital epidemiologists. This database borrows the population structure from the current multi-locus sequence typing...

What is Microbiological Risk Assessment?

In the past decade, the Food Safety discipline has addressed the assessment of hazards in foods within the framework of Risk Analysis, a new science-based paradigm intended to guarantee human health protection contemplated by EU legislation (Reg.178/2002). The objectives of risk analysis are to estimate the risk to human health of a hazard associated with food consumption; and most importantly,...

Upper Hillsborough River Bacterial Contamination Assessment Bacterial Source Tracking: Antibiotic Resistance Analysis of Fecal Coliform Bacteria

Prevalence of Campylobacter jejuni and Campylobacter coli in captive wildlife species of India

Campylobacteriosis is an important zoonotic disease and the prevalence of Campylobacter is largely unknown in the wildlife of India. A total of 370 samples, comprising of 314 fresh faecal samples from apparently healthy captive wild animals and birds, 30 stool swabs from animal care takers and 26 samples of the animals’ food and water were collected from G. B. Pant High Altitude Zoo, Nainital, ...

A population-based exposure assessment of risk factors associated with gastrointestinal pathogens: a Campylobacter study.

A questionnaire survey was undertaken to determine the exposure of a study population to campylobacteriosis source risk factors (environmental, water, food) and results were stratified by age, population density and deprivation. Data were gathered using an exposure assessment carried out by telephone in the Grampian region of Scotland. Univariate analysis showed that children aged 5-14 years, l...