Browsing Faculty of Agriculture & Veterinary Medicine (FAg / FVM) by Subject "Bacillus cereus"

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    • Bacillus cereus may produce two or more diarrheal enterotoxins 

      Jackson N, Ombui; Horst, Schmieger; Michael M, Kagiko; Sammel, M (Department of Public Health, Pharmacology and Toxicology, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of NairobiInstitut fur Genetik und Mikrobiologie, Universitdt Miinchen. Maria Ward Str. l a, D-80638 Munich, Germany, 1997)
      Bacillus cereus strains were tested for production of diarrheal enterotoxin by the reverse passive latex agglutination test and for presence of B. cereus enterotoxin gene (beeT) by polymerase chain reaction. About 50% of ...

    • Food borne diseases in Kenya 

      Ombui, J N; Kagiko, M M; Arimi, S M (Department of Public Health, Pharmacology and Toxicology, 2001)
      Objectives: To determine the occurrence of food borne disease outbreaks in Kenya and the efforts employed to combat them. Design: Cross-sectional survey. Setting:. Forty two districts in Kenya between 1970 and 1993. ...

    • Genetic characterisation of food borne Bacillus cereus strains from milk, cheese and rice by multiplex PCR assay 

      Nduhiu, Gitahi J; Ombui, Jackson N; Nduati, Dorcas W; Gicheru, Michael M (International Journal of Integrative BiologyPublic Health Pharmacology and Toxicology, University of Nairobi, Nairobi, KenyaZoological Sciences, Kenyatta University, Nairobi, Kenya, 2009)
      This study characterises enterotoxin genes including nheA, nheB, nheC, hblA, hblC, hblD, entFM,cytK, bce'T, and ess in 51 Bacillus cereus (B, cereus) strains isolated from pasteurized milk, processed cheese and cooked rice. ...