E.coli

Nestle's French subsidiary has been charged in a case involving contaminated pizzas that are suspected of having led to the death of two children, the company said Friday.

It said that more than 60 per cent of Neisseria gonorrhoea isolates, a common sexually transmitted disease, have shown resistance to the common oral antibacterial ciprofloxacin.

Researchers, at McMaster University, have successfully reconstructed the first ancient genome of E.coli by using the gallstone of a 16th-century Italian mummy. The team analysed the mummy of one of the nobles who is believed to have died in 1586 at the age of 48.

Almost all of the raw chicken sold in the US contains potentially harmful bacteria such as salmonella and E.coli, according to an analysis by Consumer Reports published on Thursday.

Scientists using an ultrasound-chlorine washing combo, made a clean sweep of the deadly E.coli pathogen from spinach leaves.This way "we can reduce the total number of food-borne pathogenic bacteria by over 99.99 percent", said Hao Feng, professor of...

Britain is facing an emerging food "bioterrorism" threat from extremist groups like the Al Qaeda, a media report said.The British government's security advisers have warned manufacturers and retailers that terrorist groups might try to poison supplies of food and drinks sold in the country just to cause widespread casualties, 'The Sunday Telegraph'...

People who develop gastroenteritis from drinking water contaminated with E. coli are at higher risk for developing high blood pressure, kidney problems and heart disease later in life.

Stomach acid helps killing disease-causing bacteria.

Nestle's French subsidiary has been charged in a case involving contaminated pizzas that are suspected of having led to the death of two children, the company said Friday.

It said that more than 60 per cent of Neisseria gonorrhoea isolates, a common sexually transmitted disease, have shown resistance to the common oral antibacterial ciprofloxacin.

Researchers, at McMaster University, have successfully reconstructed the first ancient genome of E.coli by using the gallstone of a 16th-century Italian mummy. The team analysed the mummy of one of the nobles who is believed to have died in 1586 at the age of 48.

Almost all of the raw chicken sold in the US contains potentially harmful bacteria such as salmonella and E.coli, according to an analysis by Consumer Reports published on Thursday.

Scientists using an ultrasound-chlorine washing combo, made a clean sweep of the deadly E.coli pathogen from spinach leaves.This way "we can reduce the total number of food-borne pathogenic bacteria by over 99.99 percent", said Hao Feng, professor of...

Britain is facing an emerging food "bioterrorism" threat from extremist groups like the Al Qaeda, a media report said.The British government's security advisers have warned manufacturers and retailers that terrorist groups might try to poison supplies of food and drinks sold in the country just to cause widespread casualties, 'The Sunday Telegraph'...

People who develop gastroenteritis from drinking water contaminated with E. coli are at higher risk for developing high blood pressure, kidney problems and heart disease later in life.

Stomach acid helps killing disease-causing bacteria.