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Researchers Investigate Habitat Of Listeria Bacteria

Scientists analysed soil and water samples throughout Austria in order to better understand how Listeria spread.

Listeria are extremely undemanding bacteria. In low amounts they are present almost everywhere, including soil and water. In order to better understand how Listeria spread, a group…
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DANMAP Reports Fewer Resistant Bacteria In Broiler Meat

DANMAP is reporting that fewer resistant ESBL bacteria were found in Danish broiler meat in 2013 compared with the year before.

Significantly fewer resistant ESBL bacteria were found in Danish broiler meat in 2013 compared with the year before. However, the occurrence of ESBL bacteria in…
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EcoVerde Removes Odor And Contaminants From Wastewater

EcoVerde removes odor and other contaminants through a biological process based on bacteria that feed on hydrogen sulphide.

The company EcoVerde, by Mexican Humberto Uribe Luis Lobo, designed a new filtration system that removes odor and other pollutants from wastewater through a biological…
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Bacteria Detected In Food May Cause Abortions

Researchers have confirmed the presence of Listeria monocytogenes in foods of animal origin, which causing mainly diarrheal infections as a first symptom, but in more aggressive situations generates abortions and meningitis.

The results of the research conducted in the ICAS Culiacán reveal …
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Detectan En Alimentos Bacteria Que Causa Abortos Y Meningitis

Investigadores del Centro de Investigación en Alimentación y Desarrollo (CIAD) confirmaron la presencia de la bacteria Listeria monocytogenes en alimentos de origen animal, expendidos en mercados de la ciudad de Culiacán, Sinaloa. El microorganismo causa, principalmente, infecciones diarreicas …
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Bacteria Manipulate Salt To Build Shelters To Hibernate

Researchers have detected that when bacteria cells are introduced into a droplet of salt water bacteria manipulate the sodium chloride crystallisation to create formations, where they hibernate.
 
Dried biosaline patterns formed by the interaction of Escherichia coli cells with common…
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New Methods Of Detecting Salmonella In Pork Meat Processing

Researchers have identified new methods of characterising and dectecting foodborne illness-causing Salmonella in pork meat processing and in bacteria in water, feed and food samples.

Infections caused by foodborne microorganisms are an increasing public health burden. In a PhD project at the…
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Preventing Foodborne Illness, Naturally — With Cinnamon

Scientists from the Washington State University have found that cinnamon essential oil kills several strains of E. coli. It will help improve food safety and reduce or eliminate cases of food poisoning and related deaths.

Seeking ways to prevent some of the most serious foodborne illnesses…
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Researchers Study Cheese To Understand How Microbial Communities Form

Scientists study the bacteria and fungi that live on cheese, in an effort to better understand how microbial communities form.

A Bauer Fellow at the Faculty of Arts and Sciences’ Center for Systems Biology, Dutton and her lab study cheese – or more precisely – the bacteria and fungi that …
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