A study from the Roslin institute published in BMC Genomics has identified genes in chickens that could offer resistance to harmful bacteria commonly found in poultry and could inform ways to limit the risk of associated food poisoning in people.
The research identified a large number of genes in chicken
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Scientists have found Salmonella variants can have different effects on the health of pigs and the risks they pose to food safety.
Two closely related types of Salmonella Typhimurium, called U288 and sequence type (ST) 34, are particularly dominant in pigs and differed in colonization of the intestine and surrounding
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Scientists have revealed how genes influence chickens’ resistance to Campylobacter.
Their study, published in the Scientific Reports journal, also identified that when designing control strategies for the bacteria non-genetic factors should be taken into account.
Researchers from the Royal Veterinary College, Roslin Institute, and poultry breeding company Aviagen investigated
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Transplanting gut microbes from chickens more resistant to Campylobacter into birds that are susceptible does not improve resistance, according to researchers.
To determine the types and numbers of microbes present, scientists from the Roslin Institute at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland analyzed the genetic makeup of gut microbiota from
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Scientists have looked at why humans infected with E. coli are more likely to suffer serious symptoms after studying toxins produced by the bacteria.
The team found that a toxin produced by naturally-occurring E. coli helps the bacteria colonize the intestinal tract of cattle and increases the transmission of the
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The two North American vaccines developed since 2010 to reduce the dangerous E. coli in cattle by as much as 98 percent are still in limited demand in the marketplace. But that has not stopped a Scottish group from developing a third vaccine for the same purpose.
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