Bacteriological assessment of some vegetables and ready-to-eat salads in Alexandria, Egypt.

PubMed

Amani Abaza

Citations:

4

References:

22

Abstract

Fresh vegetables and ready-to-eat salads (RTES) are essential components of human diet. Despite their benefits, they remain a major public health concern, because they have been implicated in foodborne illness outbreaks in numerous countries.The present study aimed to assess the bacteriological quality of some fresh vegetables and RTES in Alexandria, Egypt.This cross-sectional study included 121 s...

Subjects

Salmonella

Fecal coliform

Feces

Food science

Biology

Pepper

Isolation (microbiology)

Coliform bacteria

Plate count

Veterinary medicine

Toxicology

Bacteria

Medicine

Microbiology

Water quality

Ecology

Genetics

2017

Article

Institution

Department of Microbiology, High Institute of Public Health, Alexandria University, Alexandria, Egypt.

Publisher

National Institutes of Health

DOI

https://doi.org/10.21608/epx.2018.16151

Language

en

Country

Egypt

Primary Source

Bacteriological assessment of some vegetables and ready-to-eat salads in Alexandria, Egypt.

Primary Source

Bacteriological assessment of some vegetables and ready-to-eat salads in Alexandria, Egypt.

PubMed

Amani Abaza

Citations:

4

References:

22

Abstract

Fresh vegetables and ready-to-eat salads (RTES) are essential components of human diet. Despite their benefits, they remain a major public health concern, because they have been implicated in foodborne illness outbreaks in numerous countries.The present study aimed to assess the bacteriological quality of some fresh vegetables and RTES in Alexandria, Egypt.This cross-sectional study included 121 s...