Science Daily — A University of Arkansas-led research team has found that an effective way to get rid of pathogenic Campylobcter bacteria in turkeys is to use proteins produced naturally by other bacteria. The proteins are called bacteriocins. The researchers found that these proteins can eliminate the detectable Campylobacter and that they can also change
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Protein Found In Chickens May Help Protect Against Food-Borne Pathogens
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Science Daily — Researchers from The Netherlands have identified a protein in the digestive tract of chickens that may serve as an antimicrobial agent against food-borne pathogens. They report their findings in the March 2007 issue of the journal Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy.
Food-borne pathogens, responsible for most cases of food poisoning in developed countries,…
Drug use in cattle could speed resistance
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WASHINGTON, March 3 (UPI) — U.S. regulators are expected to approve the use of a powerful antibiotic in cattle despite warnings it would speed the appearance of resistant microbes.
InterVet Inc., a Delaware company, has applied to the Food and Drug Administration to market Cefquinome for treatment of a pneumonia-like disease, the Washington Post reported.…
DROUGHT and heat are being blamed for a doubling in food poisoning cases in 2007.
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Alarming health department statistics show more than 800 South Australians have suffered food poisoning in the first seven weeks of this year.
This is more than double the year-to-date average of 379 for the past three years.
The usual health authority reckoning is that the confirmed cases represent about 10 per cent of the number…
UVM Leads Effort to Combat Food-Borne Disease
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The University of Vermont College of Medicine has been chosen as the single participating academic medical center in the nation to collaborate with the Navy Medical Research Center (NMRC) and Denmark-based ACE BioSciences in the development and evaluation of a new vaccine against one of the most common food-borne bacteria, Campylobacter. The first study in…
Consumers Union Calls for Single Agency to Ensure Safety of Nation’s Food Supply
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WASHINGTON, Feb. 8 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — Consumers Union is calling for the creation of a single food agency to ensure adequate, efficient and effective oversight of our nation’s food supply. Consumers Union welcomes today’s hearing in the House Agriculture Appropriations Subcommittee to bring attention to the inadequacies in the government’s system to monitor food’s safety.
As highlighted in last week’s GAO…
Local meat, milk and raw salads carry high levels of Campylobacter
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KARACHI: A surveillance study was carried out to determine the prevalence of Campylobacter in meat, milk and other food commodities in Pakistan. Over a period of 3 years (January 2002-December 2004), a total of 1,636 food samples of meat, milk and other food commodities were procured from three big cities of Pakistan (Faisalabad, Lahore and…
Leading cause of US food-borne illness makes its own pathway through cells
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Yale researchers now have some answers about how the bacterium that is the leading cause of food-borne illness in the United States enters cells of the gut and avoids detection and destruction, according to a presentation at the annual meeting of the American Society for Cell Biology in San Diego in December.
While scientists are…
Gastroenteritis in Children
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The Your Health blog has posted an article titled, “Gastroenteritis in Children,” in which the author discusses several different causes of gastrointestinal distress, one being Campylobacter infection. From the article:
Gastroenteritis can also be caused by consuming infected food (food poisoning). Vomiting is more prominent than diarrhea in a person who has food poisoning. There
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Campylobacter Research sheds light on bacterium
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A graduate student at Yale University has uncovered the answer to how Campylobacter jejuni is able to penetrate intestinal epithelial cells. This research was highlighted in a recent press release:
Yale researchers now have some answers about how the bacterium that is the leading cause of food-borne illness in the United States enters cells
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