Nanomaterials have gained importance in various fields of science, technology, medicine,
colloid technologies, diagnostics, drug delivery, personal care applications and others due …

Over the last fifty years, microbiologists have developed reliable culture-based techniques to
detect food borne pathogens. Although these are considered to be the “gold-standard,” they …

Phytopathogenic fungal species can cause enormous losses in quantity and quality of crop
yields and this is a major economic issue in the global agricultural sector. Precise and rapid …

Nano-sized magnetic particles are increasingly being used across a wide spectrum of
biomedical fields. Upon functionalization to enable specific binding, magnetic particles and …

Listeria monocytogenes is an important foodborne pathogen responsible for non-invasive
and invasive diseases in the elderly, pregnant women, neonates and immunocompromised …

In this work, lipase produced from an isolated strain Burkholderia sp. C20 was immobilized
on magnetic nanoparticles to catalyze biodiesel synthesis. Core–shell nanoparticles were …

The objective of this study was to develop a method combining nanoparticle-based
immunomagnetic separation (IMS) with real-time PCR for a rapid and quantitative detection …

Bacterial pathogens and toxicants, parasites as well as mycotoxin producing fungi are the
major biotic factors influencing the safety of food. Moreover, viral infections and prions may …

Intoxications and infections caused by food-borne pathogens represent an increasing public
health problem, and diagnostic tests in multiplex format are needed for the rapid …

Once feared as a deadly intracellular bacterium with the extraordinary capacity to survive a
wide array of arduous external stressors, Listeria monocytogenes is increasingly recognized …