Lag phase represents the earliest and most poorly understood stage of the bacterial growth
cycle. We developed a reproducible experimental system and conducted functional genomic …

Foreign material in foods (glass, plastic, metal, etc.) is the biggest single source of customer
complaints received by many food manufacturers, retailers and enforcement authorities. This …

A number of outbreaks of food poisoning attributed to Bacillus cereus have been reported
recently and all have been associated with cooked rice usually from Chinese restaurants …

Free Clostridium perfringens enterotoxin was detected in the stools of 11 patients with
diarrhoea. All had high faecal counts of enterotoxigenic strains of C perfringens, mostly of …

Increasingly it is becoming important to study and manage aspects of food production in
relation to the total food chain implications and not one stage in isolation. As part of a major …

The SET-RPLA is a commercially available kit for the detection of staphylococcal
enterotoxins in foods. Previous reports have shown that non-specific reactions occur on use …

An enzyme linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) has been developed to quantitate faecal
Clostridium perfringens enterotoxin in the investigation of C perfringens food poisoning. The …

Under the Agreement on the Application of Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures that came
into force in 1995, it was stipulated that all World Trade Organisation (WTO) members are …

Enterotoxigenic strains of Clostridium perfringens have recently been implicated in some
cases of antibiotic-associated diarrhoea. We present here the results of an epidemiological …

Serological typing was used as an epidemiological tool in the investigation of 524
outbreakes of Clostridium perfringens food poisoning in the United Kingdom and 37 …