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Approaches to Assess the Risks Vrije Universiteit Brussel
The European Commission (EU) laid down the general principles and requirements of food law where it had changed the approach to food safety through the integrated control of the food chain. Hazard characterisation’ is the quantitative and/or qualitative evaluation of the adverse effects that may results from the ingestion of chemical, microbiological and physical agents presents in foods. This chapter provides an assessment of the risk ...
Assessing the individual microbial inhibitory capacity of different sugars against pathogens commonly found in food systems KU Leuven
Highly concentrated sugar solutions are known to be effective antimicrobial agents. However, it is unknown whether this effect is solely the result of the collective osmotic effect imparted by a mixture of sugars or whether the type of carbohydrate used also has an individual chemical effect on bacterial responses, that is, inhibition/growth. In view of this, in this work, the antimicrobial properties of four sugars, namely, glucose, fructose, ...
Titanium surface polyethylene glycol hydrogel and gentamicin-loaded cross-linked starch microspheres release system for anti-infective drugs KU Leuven
OBJECTIVE: To design and construct a hydrogel drug-controlled release system loaded with gentamicin on a titanium surface, and to evaluate the in vitro drug release behaviour and antibacterial properties and biocompatibility of the controlled release system. METHODS: Titanium (Ti) surface was coated with poly dopamine (PDA) substrate, and then polyethylene glycol (PEG) was attached to PDA. The composite drug microsphere controlled release layer ...
Molecular epidemiology of livestock-associated methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus in the Belgian pork production chain Universiteit Gent
Antibiotic Susceptibility of Staphylococcus aureus and Streptococcus pneumoniae Isolates from the Nasopharynx of Febrile Children under 5 Years in Nanoro, Burkina Faso KU Leuven
(1) Background: nasopharynx colonization by resistant Staphylococcus aureus and Streptococcus pneumoniae can lead to serious diseases. Emerging resistance to antibiotics commonly used to treat infections due to these pathogens poses a serious threat to the health system. The present study aimed to determine the antibiotic susceptibility of S. aureus and S. pneumoniae isolates from the febrile children's nasopharynx under 5 years in Nanoro ...
Clinical evaluation of the Copan ESwab for methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus detection and culture of wounds KU Leuven
The screening for and diagnosis of bacteriological infections often involves the collection and transportation of swab samples. The Copan ESwab was compared with the dry cotton Copan swab for methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) screening (n = 200 paired samples) and with the Amies agar gel swab (Copan) for the sampling of burn and orthopaedic wounds (n = 203 paired samples) in terms of Gram staining and bacterial recovery. Gram ...
Bacteriostasis testing on allograft tissue inoculated in Wilkins-Chalgren broth KU Leuven
Tissue banks culture tissue specimens to confirm the absence of viable micro-organisms after decontamination with antibiotics. It is possible that antibiotic residues attached to decontaminated tissue are introduced into enrichment culture media. These could have an inhibitory effect on the culture results and generate false-negative results. Our aim was to detect bacteriostasis in Wilkins-Chalgren broth inoculated with bone and tendon remnants. ...
Role of Staphylococcus aureus Enterotoxin B in the aggravation of airway inflammation Universiteit Gent
HIV infection as a risk factor for septic arthritis Instituut voor Tropische Geneeskunde
We prospectively studied the demographics, the clinical and diagnostic features, the HIV-1 serostatus and the therapeutic response for all new patients with septic arthritis (SA) admitted to the Department of Internal Medicine of the Centre Hospitalier de Kigali, Rwanda, over a 19 month period. SA was diagnosed in 24 patients (10 male, 14 female), of whom 19 (79%) were HIV-1 seropositive (HIVpos). Gonococcal arthritis was found in four patients, ...