BACKGROUND The financial accessibility of antimicrobial drugs to the outpatient community in Canada is governed at the provincial level through formularies. Each province may choose to list particular drugs or impose restriction criteria on products in order to guide prescribing and/or curtail costs. Although changes to formularies have been shown to change patterns in the use of individual pro...

BACKGROUND With rising reports of antimicrobial resistance in outpatient communities, surveillance of antimicrobial use is imperative for supporting stewardship programs. The primary objective of this article is to assess the levels of antimicrobial use in Canada over time. METHODS Canadian antimicrobial use data from 1995 to 2010 were acquired and assessed by four metrics: population-adjuste...

Food products of animal origin can serve as a vehicle for Staphylococcus (S.) aureus, a facultative pathogen involved in a variety of diseases. As a result, international trade and illegal transportation of foodstuffs can facilitate the distribution of S. aureus over long distances. In this study, we investigated S. aureus isolates recovered from meat products confiscated from passengers return...

Infectious diseases are one of the main causes of morbidity and mortality worldwide. Nowadays many infections are often caused by multi-resistant microorganisms resulting in difficult to treat diseases and, consequently, substantial increases in healthcare costs. The relative easy access to the antimicrobials and also the massive employment of these compounds for industrial purposes, including ...

 Background: Essential oils of medicinal plants such as chamomile are very complex natural mixtures which can contain compounds at quite different concentrations and some of their components have antioxidant and antimicrobial activities in foodstuff. Objective: The antioxidant and antimicrobial effects of chamomile essential oil in cake preparation were evaluated during 75 days of storag...

A combination of crushed garlic (Allium sativum sativum) has been used as a traditional remedy for antimicrobial testing suggested that the mixture of tw antimicrobial effects on both Staphylococcus aureu Analyses of the extract of garlic and black cumin by G confirmed that the main components of garlic were allic allicin transformed products such as diallyldisulfide a black cumin were thymoqui...

BioIntraface®, Inc., located in Riverside, Rhode Island, was formed in February of 2009 to commercialize its biomaterials surface treatment technologies. The platform technologies involve the creation of economical, multifunctional metal oxide and polymer materials and coatings to control the bioactivity and antimicrobial properties of medical devices and implants. Biointraface® has continued o...

Antimicrobial packaging is one of the most promising active packaging systems. Antimicrobial packaging is the packaging system that is able to kill or inhibit spoilage and pathogenic microorganisms that are contaminating foods. A tremendous effort has been made over the last decade to develop and test films with antimicrobial properties to improve food safety and shelf life. For food preservati...