Aim Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli (STEC) represent a severe public health issue worldwide, causing life-threatening diseases in the human gastrointestinal tract. This study aimed to determine the occurrence of virulent and antibiotic-resistant STEC in retail meat and milk products and human stool samples and to characterize the genes encoding for virulence and antibiotic resistance amo...

Although Helicobacter pylori has a significant impact on the occurrence of severe clinical syndromes, its exact ways of transmission and origin have not been identified. According to the results of some previously published articles, foods with animal origins play a substantial role in the transmission of H. pylori to humans. The present investigation was carried out to study the vacuolating cy...

In this study, the influence of lactic acid fermentation on the quality of tomato powder was evaluated. The effect of adding fermented tomato powder to ready-to-cook minced pork meat to improve its nutritional value and sensory characteristics was also analysed. The cell growth of Lactobacillus sakei (7.53 log CFU/g) was more intense in the medium containing tomato powder, compared to the growt...

Food-borne pathogens are of high concern for public health and food safety. Staphylococcus aureus food poisoning is one of the most ecoReyad R. Shawish Naser A. Al-Humam nomically devastating types of food poisoning globally. The purpose of this study was to detect staphylococcal classical enterotoxins (SEs) in processed beef from Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) and Egypt. 1 Department of Food Hy...

BACKGROUND Diet has a major influence on the composition of the gut microbiota, whose importance for gut health and overall well-being is increasingly recognized. Knowledge is limited regarding health implications, including effects on the faecal microbiota, of feeding a diet with high content of red meat to dogs, despite some owners' apparent preference to do so. The aim of this study was to e...

In the present study, effect of oregano essential oil, which is contained in xanthan gum and guar edible coating, was investigated regard to its ability assist with preservation extension shelf life minced beef meat when stored at 4 °C. Minced samples were coated a mixture containing oil various levels (1–3%). The compared control sample (uncoated) for bacteriological (i.e., total viable count,...

52 cases of human trichinellosis were notified from 11 towns in North Rhine-Westphalia from November 1998 to March 1999. After non-typical symptoms in the enteral phase, fever, muscular ache, headache, oedema, disorder of vision and rash occurred in the parenteral phase. Trichinellosis was serologically confirmed by ELISA, IFAT or western blot. Raw sausage and minced meat produced from raw pork...

A study was made of the methyl sterols involved in sterol biosynthesis in developing rat brain. In addition to the determination of the endogenous sterols present in 15-day-old rat brain, experiments were conducted to establish which of these sterols could be labeled by a minced tissue preparation in the presence of [Z-W]mevalonic acid. The turnover of [14C]lanostero1, [4-3H]squalene oxide, and...