Flow cytometry has become a valuable tool in different fields of microbiology, such as clinical microbiology, aquatic and environmental microbiology, food microbiology, and biotechnology. It combines direct and rapid assays to determine numbers, biochemical and physiological characteristics of individual cells, revealing the heterogeneity present in a population. This review focuses on the appl...

This article discusses the issues of food safety and security as a matter global health. Foodborne illness deaths caused by pathogens in continue to be worldwide problem, with reported 600 million cases per year, leading around 420,000 2010. Predictive microbiology can play crucial role ensuring safe through mathematical modelling estimate microbial growth behaviour. Food is described social ec...

1 School of Microbiology, University College Cork, Cork, Ireland, Department of Microbiology, School of Life Sciences, Pondicherry University, Pondicherry, India, Department of Food Science and Technology, Pondicherry University, Pondicherry, India, 4 Biomerit Research Centre, University College Cork, Cork, Ireland, 5 School of Biomedical Sciences, Curtin Health Innovation Research Institute, C...

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n May 30th 1955 during the First Symposium on the Develpment of Microbiology in Brazil organized by Rio de Janeiro ranch of Society of Americas Bacteriologists (current Amercan Society for Microbiology) coordinated by Prof. Minton hiago de Mello, held in Rio de Janeiro, was formally suggested he creation of the Brazilian Society for Microbiology (SBM) nd a scientific journal under denomination ...

Microbiota and a Rational Target for Probiotic Functionality and Safety Muriel Derrien, Diya Adawi, Siv Ahrné, Bengt Jeppsson, Göran Molin, Nadia Osman, Jelena Štšepetova, Elaine E. Vaughan, Willem M. de Vos and Arthur C. Ouwehand From the Laboratory of Microbiology, Wageningen University, 6703 CT Wageningen, The Netherlands, Department of Surgery, Malmö University Hospital, Lund University, 20...