Diarrheal diseases are still a leading cause of child mortality in less developed countries. In the past three decades, in an effort to reduce the transmission of diarrheal diseases, millions of tubewells have been installed as a way to provide safe drinking water in Bangladesh.…
Whole broilers exposed to a radiant wall (RW) at 649°C, for 0, 3, 4, 5, or 8 s or dipped in a solution containing 1% buffered sodium citrate, pH 5.8 (BSC), 0.5% citric acid (CA) or 2% liquid smoke (LS) prior to RW exposure. 5 s exposure reduced total plate count (TPC) 1.23 to 1.…
Temperature is a critical and ubiquitous environmental signal that influences the growth, virulence, and survival of diverse microbial species. The human pathogen Streptococcus pneumoniae is a commensal microorganism, whose ecological niche is the human nasopharynx, and becomes …
Chlorine dioxide (ClO2 ) has been investigated as an antimicrobial in meat washing systems and brine chillers. This study was designed to observe the antimicrobials effectiveness of ClO2 applied in an ice form. An ice machine with a ClO2 generator produced ice containing 0 or 20…
The objective of this thesis is to describe the design of a complex adaptive system that can extract information from an electrochemical sensor for accurate detection of multiple species of pathogens. There were 130 samples used to preliminarily evaluate this system. The complex…