Le sésame constitue le deuxième produit d’exportation agricole au Burkina Faso mais sa qualité n’est pas toujours satisfaisante à cause de la présence d’impuretés et parfois microorganismes pathogènes notamment les salmonelles. La présente étude a pour objectif d’évaluer prévalence des salmonelles dans ses produits dérivés. Au total, 107 échantillons dont 73 graines 34 dérivés (biscuits, croque...

The virulence region of the Salmonella enteritidis 55 kb plasmid pNL2001 was identified by Tn1-insertion mutagenesis, DNA hybridization studies, and Western blot analysis of proteins encoded in the virulence region of the plasmid. DNA hybridization studies showed that the pNL2001 plasmid contained a 6.4 kb SalI-EcoRI fragment homologous to the 6.4 kb SalI-EcoRI Salmonella plasmid virulence (spv...

Inhibitor of differentiation protein-2 (Id2) is a dominant negative helix-loop-helix (HLH) protein, and a positive regulator of proliferation, in various cells. The N-terminal region of Id2 contains a consensus cdk2 phosphorylation sequence SPVR, which may be involved with the induction of apoptosis, at least in myeloid 32d.3 cells. However, the role of Id2 phosphorylation at serine 5 in skelet...

Salmonella strains cause three main types of diseases in people: gastroenteritis, enteric (typhoid) fever, and non-typhoid extra-intestinal disease with bacteremia. Genetic analysis indicates that each clinical syndrome requires distinct sets of virulence genes, and Salmonella isolates differ in their constellation of virulence traits. The spv locus is strongly associated with strains that caus...

The virulence region of the wild-type plasmid pSDL2 contained in Salmonella dublin is highly conserved among plasmids from several nontyphoid Salmonella serotypes and is essential for the development of systemic infection in BALB/c mice. Polyclonal antibodies against three proteins (SpvA, -B, and -C) expressed from a 4.1-kb EcoRI subclone of the plasmid virulence region were generated. These an...

Phage type 99 of Salmonella enterica subsp. enterica serovar Typhimurium variant Copenhagen strains isolated from pigeons were examined for the presence of genotypic and phenotypic characteristics. The pulsed-field gel electrophoresis patterns obtained with XbaI and BlnI from 38 pigeon strains were compared with those obtained from 89 porcine, poultry, and human strains of variant Copenhagen. I...

OBJECTIVES The objective of this investigation was to assess the methods for the characterization of Salmonella isolates and to identify relationships of Salmonella isolates from human and food sources in northern Morocco. METHODOLOGY Several Salmonella serotypes were isolated from human and food samples and were characterized using conventional culture methods, biochemical, serological, anti...