Disease Outbreaks due to Sprouts
As of June, 2018 the Gideon database (www.GideonOnline.com) chronicles 22,777 published Infectious Diseases outbreaks. Sprouts were implicated in 13.4% of outbreaks which specify a disease vehicle (5.2% of salmonellosis outbreaks). Salmonellae were responsible for 83% of outbreaks associated with sprouts. The remainder were caused by Escherichia coli, Listeria monocytogenes or Bacillus cereus. [1]
References:
1 Berger S. Gideon Guide to Outbreaks, 2018. 2,011 pages, 5,272 tables, 51,622 references. Gideon e-books, https://www.gideononline.com/ebooks/outbreaks/
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Source: GIDEON blog - June 22, 2018 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: Dr. Stephen Berger Tags: Ebooks Epidemiology Outbreaks ProMED Source Type: blogs
50 Cent Origami Microscope for Third-World Diagnostics
No, Curtis James Jackson III didn’t decide to invest in science and sponsor a microscope. It’s an actual microscope that costs around $0.50 USD to produce ($1 for higher magnification), and can be assembled in under 10 minutes. The Foldscope, developed by the Prakash Lab at Stanford University, provides over 2,000X magnification with submicron resolution, weighs 8.8 grams, fits in a pocket, is battery-powered for up to 50 hours on a single button cell, and is rugged enough to withstand being dropped from three stories or being stomped on by a mad scientist’s boot.
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Source: Medgadget - March 11, 2014 Category: Technology Consultants Authors: Ben Ouyang Tags: Diagnostics Genetics Pathology Public Health Source Type: blogs
Real-time PCR Detection of Foodborne Pathogenic Staphylococcus aureus
from B. Stessl and M. Wagner writing in Real-Time PCR in Food Science: Current Technology and Applications:The real incidence of Staphylococcus aureus the ethological cause of staphylococcal food poisoning (SFP) is unknown due to underreported cases and the misinterpretation of symptoms (vomiting, diarrhoea) also caused by other agents as B. cereus and Norovirus. Conventional microbiological methods recommended by EU regulation 2073 are time-consuming and often lead to false negative results as viable S. aureus cells are not detectable but still a higher amount of heat-stable enterotoxins was produced. In the last years se...
Source: Microbiology Blog: The weblog for microbiologists. - June 12, 2013 Category: Microbiology Source Type: blogs
