Essays about: "foodborne disease"

Found 5 essays containing the words foodborne disease.

  1. 1. Food Safety Risk Perceptions in the Dumpster Diving Community and Analysis of Bacterial Burden in Discarded Foods

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för medicinsk biokemi och mikrobiologi

    Author : Corneus Allyson; [2021]
    Keywords : Dumpster diving; totting; skipping; biomedicine; global health; public health; life sciences; microbiology of the food;

    Abstract : The main topic of this study was dumpster diving (the act of retrieving discarded goods, in this case especially food, from waste containers) and the exploration of this activity from the infection biology viewpoint. Dumpster diving is a common way of accessing goods without spending economic resources, as well as an expression of anti-consumerism or civil disobedience. READ MORE

  3. 2. Kan bakteriofager användas för att reducera nivån av Campylobacter hos slaktkyckling?

    University essay from SLU/Dept. of Biomedical Sciences and Veterinary Public Health

    Author : Ellen Thor; [2019]
    Keywords : Bakteriofager; Campylobacter; slaktkyckling;

    Abstract : Campylobacter spp. är den vanligaste livsmedelsburna bakterien att orsaka sjukdom hos människa i Sverige och i EU. Bakterien orsakar problem som diarré, magont, kräkningar, illamående, feber och huvudvärk men kan också leda till allvarligare komplikationer som reaktiv artrit. READ MORE

  4. 3. Effects and safety of selected antagonistic bacteria against Escherichia coli in leafy green vegetables

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Livsmedelsteknik och nutrition (master)

    Author : Noora Ulla Annikki Nurminen; [2017]
    Keywords : ready-to-eat salad; Antagonist; Escherichia coli; food technology; livsmedelsteknologi; Technology and Engineering;

    Abstract : We live in a busy world, where the demand of ready-to-eat (RTE) salad products has increased rapidly in a relatively short time. Despite of being an easy and fast way to add more vegetables to the daily diet, RTE salads have a serious underlying risk and the amount of vegetable-derived foodborne disease outbreaks has been increasing. READ MORE

  5. 4. Opportunistic pathogenic filamentous fungal species in health supplements : potential risk to immune compromised individuals

    University essay from SLU/Department of Molecular Sciences

    Author : Attal Arzoomand; [2017]
    Keywords : IFI; opportunistic pathogen; immune compromised; foodborne disease; probiotic;

    Abstract : Invasive fungal infections (IFI) are a threat to individuals with a suppressed immune system and the rate of IFI cases in the world is increasing. These types of infections occur both at home and during hospitalization. READ MORE

  6. 5. Optimization and validation of a triplex real-time PCR assay for thermotolerant Campylobacter species associated with foodborne disease

    University essay from SLU/Dept. of Microbiology

    Author : Maria Karlsson; [2013]
    Keywords : thermotolerant Campylobacter; multiplex real-time PCR; 16S rRNA; hipO; cadF;

    Abstract : The genus Campylobacter is globally recognised as the leading bacterial cause of human foodborne gastroenteritis. Every year around 8000 Swedes are infected by Campylobacter. Most people are infected by thermotolerant Campylobacter species, commonly C. jejuni and C. READ MORE