N early a century ago, Elie Metchnikoff of the Pasteur Institute in Paris proposed that lactic bacteria in fermented milk could promote the development of healthy intestinal microbiota. The consumption of probiotic lactic acid bacteria is useful in maintaining gastrointestinal health and has been used to preserve intestinal integrity and mobility and treat diarrheal diseases. Recent evidence fr...

The potential for competitive inhibition to limit the growth of microbial pathogens in food raises questions about the external validity of typical predictive microbiology studies and suggests the need to consider microbial community dynamics in food safety risk assessment. Ecological theory indicates, however, that community dynamics are highly complex and may be very sensitive to initial cond...

The need to ensure the microbiological quality and safety of food products has stimulated interest in the use of mathematical models for quantifying and predicting microbial behaviour. For 20 years, predictive microbiology has been developed for predicting the occurrence of food-borne pathogens, although these tools are dedicated to bacteria. Recently, the situation has changed and a growing nu...

Specific Properties of Enteropathogenic Escherichia coli Strains Isolated from 1 Diarrheal Patients: Comparison between Strains from Foods, and Fecal 2 Specimens from Cattle, Swine and Healthy Carriers in Osaka City, Japan 3 4 Lili Wang, Mitsuko Wakushima, Tetsu Aota, Yuka Yoshida, Toshimasa Kita, Tomofumi 5 Maehara, Jun Ogasawara, Changsun Choi, Yoichi Kamata, Yukiko Hara-Kudo and 6 Yoshikazu ...

OBJECTIVE Childhood obesity is increasingly being recognized as a major public health problem in the Caribbean. The objective of the present study was to evaluate the effectiveness of a short-term, school-based, multi-component education intervention on improving the knowledge, attitudes and behaviour of primary-school children towards better dietary and activity habits. DESIGN The study was ...

In 2006, the first isolate of KPC-2-producing Pseudomonas aeruginosa in the world was identified in Colombia. Recently, similar strains have been reported in Puerto Rico. We now report KPC-2-producing P. aeruginosa in Trinidad and Tobago. Surveillance for similar strains is warranted, considering their wide geographic spread and known association with mobile genetic elements.

Introduction: Today, transmitted diseases through food and food poisoning have been considered as a public health problem in many countries. Lack of knowledge concerning hygiene and food safety can increase the risks associated with the consumed foods. Hence, the present study aimed to determine the students' knowledge and attitude of hygiene and food safety in Shahid Sadoughi University of Med...

Somboon Tanasupawat, Budsabathip Prasirtsak, Amnat Pakdeeto and Nuttha Thongchul Department of Biochemistry and Microbiology, Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok 10330, Thailand, Institute of Biotechnology and Genetic Engineering, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok 10330, Thailand, Food Science and Technology Program, Faculty of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Ch...