Treating salmonella infections in poultry is rapidly becoming one of the most important methods of increasing food security. Working towards that end, a team of Canadian researchers was recently able to isolate a microorganism in the Arctic that may be of help.
Investigators at the University of Victoria, led by mi... |
5 March 2012
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One of the methods the poultry industry could use to reduce future risks of salmonella outbreaks could be to apply a new step in the technological process, that would cool the fresh eggs right after they are produced. According to investigators at the Purdue University, this would ensure that the risk of outbreaks su... |
26 August 2010
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Biologists say that the Salmonella enteritidis can infect chicken eggs in multiple ways, facilitating the outbreak of infections in the general population. While it may seem impossible for the microorganisms to penetrate egg shells, there are actually more ways than one in which this can be achieved, LiveScience... |
19 August 2010
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A team of scientists at the University of Colorado in Boulder (UCB) believes it may have set the foundations for a new approach in investigating human inflammatory diseases. In a new study the group conducted on unsuspecting lab mice, they discovered that rodents infected with the known bacteria salmonella exhibit a ... |
26 February 2010
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The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) estimate that approximately 40,000 US citizens contract salmonella every year, primarily from unwashed food. The bacterium can do some serious damage inside the body, and outbreaks are not at all uncommon. Against it, many pharmaceutical companies have attempted... |
24 September 2009
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Research conducted on the International Space Station in 2006 and 2008 has finally revealed for certain something that virology experts have suspected for a long time, and namely that salmonella grows to be more or less dangerous depending on its environment. In the micro-gravity surroundings of the ISS, the bacteria... |
25 March 2009
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The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is on high alert at the moment, due to the threat of a major salmonella outbreak which is said to have been caused by contaminated red tomatoes. As a result, many of the most popular fast-food chains in the States - McDonald's and Burger King among them - voluntarily wit... |
11 June 2008
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HIV does not kill by itself. It just leaves humans defenseless against other killers. About 50% of all HIV-positive African adults die of Salmonella infection, a disease that otherwise is treated after a seven-day bout of diarrhea. A new research made at UC Davis School of Medicine and published in the "Nature Medici... |
25 March 2008
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