Monday, April 22, 2013

New study shows how Salmonella colonises the gut

Salmonella is a major cause of human diarrhoeal infections and is frequently acquired from chickens, pigs and cattle, or their products. Around 94 million such infections occur in people worldwide each year, with approximately 50,000 cases in the UK per annum.
In a BBSRC-funded collaboration between the University of Cambridge's Department of Veterinary Medicine, the University of Edinburgh's Roslin Institute and the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, scientists have studied how Salmonella colonises the intestines of food-producing animals. This is relevant both to the welfare of the animal hosts and to contamination of the food chain and farm environment.

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Source: Phys org

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  1. * when Salmonella foodborne contaminated egg-based foods such as mayonnaise or tiramisu- their victims culinary enjoyment is over. *

    *Single virulent factor is sufficient to allow bacteria bacteria to trigger disease : the protein SopE. *

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