OBJECTIVES To determine the quantity and quality of bacterial and fungi on money coins and to identify those that could pose a public health risk. DESIGN Random sampling of coins from subjects within predetermined categories. SETTING Westlands division of Nairobi Metropolitan province. SUBJECTS Twenty-shilling coin samples were collected from matatu (a common commuter vehicle in Kenya) ta...

UNLABELLED Antimicrobial peptides offer potential as novel therapeutics to combat food spoilage and poisoning caused by pathogenic and nonpathogenic bacteria. Our previous studies identified the peptide human beta-defensin 3 (HBD3) as a potent antimicrobial agent against a wide range of beer-spoiling bacteria. Thus, HBD3 is an excellent candidate for development as an additive to prevent food a...

Covid-19 detection in food is an effective solution to ensure the accurate rate of Covid-19. The difficulties and methods virus safety feasibility digital PCR technology are analyzed. main parameters characteristics dPCR other technologies compared. application viruses pathogenic bacteria, preparation purity verification RNA reference material, steps testing were expounded. Compared with tradit...

Cottonseed is potential candidate to act as an important protein source but presence of toxic compound gossypol with concentration more than 0.045% main hurdle in utilization this protein. Optimized lyophilized powder constitutes 5.05% moisture, 93.1% crude protein, 0.03% free gossypol, 0.27% total and bacterial count 1295 cfu/g no pathogenic bacteria. may be utilized ingredient for food indust...

Abstract The German cockroach (Blattella germanica ) is a pest often found in apartments, houses, food-handling areas, hospitals, and healthcare facilities Indonesia. It searches for food dirty places such as trash cans, sewers, septic tanks. will feed on almost anything, including fecal matter humans. So, this habit causes the can act vector several pathogenic bacteria increases risk of variou...

abstract       background and objective: probiotics are living microorganisms that have beneficial effects on the health of digestive system. the aim of this study was to evaluate the antimicrobial ability of acidic and neutral supernatants (culture supernatant) of lactic acid bacteria against common bacterial pathogens.        methods: four species of lactic acid bacteria (lactobacillus planta...