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  1. Najwa, M.S., Rukayadi, Y., Ubong, A., Loo, Y.Y., Chang, W.S., Lye, Y.L., et al.
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    Salmonella has been reported to be presence both in raw and processed foods worldwide. In this study, the prevalence, quantification and antibiotic susceptibility of Salmonella isolated from raw vegetables or locally known as ulam such as asiatic pennywort (Centella asiatica (L) Urb), water dropwort (Oenanthe javanica (Blume) DC), long bean (Vigna sinensis EndL), and winged bean (Psophocarpus tetragonolobus (L) DC) obtained from retail markets in Selangor, Malaysia were carried out. From 96 samples tested, the overall prevalence of Salmonella spp. was 97.9%, Salmonella Enteritidis was 54.2% and Salmonella Typhimurium was 82.3% respectively. Samples were contaminated with Salmonella ranging from < 3 to 2400 MPN/g. Salmonella Enteritidis and Salmonella Typhimurium isolates obtained from the raw vegetables (ulam) were found to exhibit high resistance against ampicillin (100%), erythromycin (100%), amoxicillin/clavunic acid (81.3%), cephalothin (75%), streptomycin (50%) and ciprofloxacin (50%). All Salmonella isolates showed multi drug resistant (MDR) profile with each isolate being resistant to 3 or more antibiotics. The multiple antibiotic resistance (MAR) index of Salmonella isolates ranged from 0.27 to 0.55 for Salmonella Enteritidis and 0.27 to 0.82 for Salmonella Typhimurium. The presence of Salmonella on raw vegetables (ulam) and high antibiotic resistance isolates indicated that raw vegetables could be contaminated and thus imposes possible health risk to local consumers.
  2. Elexson, N., Nik Yuhanis, F.N., Malcolm, T.T.H., New, C.Y., Chang, W.S., Ubong, A., et al.
    Food Research, 2017;1(1):29-32.
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    Irrespective of its health effects, street foods are very popular with the consumers. The main
    purpose of this research was to study the biosafety of Escherichia coli in popiah, a Malaysian
    street food sold at a roadside food stall and a restaurant in Sri Serdang, Selangor, Malaysia,
    using the combination of the most probable number (MPN)-Polymerase Chain Reaction
    (PCR) assay-plating on Eosin Methylene Blue (EMB) agar methods. Using these biomolecular
    methods, E. coli was detected in 12/15 (80%) and 11/15 (73%) of the collected samples from
    the roadside food stall and the restaurant respectively. The incidence of stx virulence-associated
    genes was detected in 1/15 (7%) among the E. coli isolated from samples taken from the
    roadside food stall while the E. coli isolated from the restaurant was 3/15 (20%). The density
    of E. coli ranged from 1100 MPN/g and the density of E. coli positive with stx genes
    was
  3. Thung, T.Y., Lee, E., Tan, C.W., Malcolm, T.T.H., New, C.Y., Ramzi, O.S.B., et al.
    Food Research, 2018;2(5):404-414.
    MyJurnal
    Bacteriophages are ubiquitous in our world, mainly in the oceans, soil, the water and food
    we consume. They can be used efficiently in modern biotechnology, as well as alternatives
    to antibiotics for many antibiotic resistant bacterial strains. Phages can be used as vehicles
    for vaccines both DNA and protein, for the detection of pathogenic bacterial strain, as biocontrol
    agents in agriculture and food industry. This review outlines the properties as well
    as the influence of different external physical and chemical factors like temperature and
    acidity on phage persistence. A better understanding of the complex problem of phage
    sensitivity to external factors may be useful for other researchers working with phages.
    Furthermore, the applications of bacteriophages were described in this paper as well.
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