Investigation of different human pathogenic and food contaminating bacteria and moulds grown on selenite/selenate and tellurite/tellurate by X-ray absorption spectroscopy

Bioaccumulation and biovolatilization of various elements using filamentous fungus Scopulariopsis brevicaulis

“…Prange et al . () also observed the growth of several fungal strains ( Aspergillus flavus, A. parasiticus, Phomopsis viticola ) on selenite, selenate, tellurite and tellurate. The best growth intensity of these fungi was on culture media containing selenite and selenate.…”

“…(Prange et al . ) and it is well known that bacteria can reduce selenium and tellurium species (Turner et al . ).…”

“…Also, other bacterial strains were reported to accumulate selenium or tellurium such as Salmonella, Pseudomonas, Proteus, Rhodobacter, Citrobacter, Escherichia, Enterococcus and Staphylococcus. (Prange et al 2005) and it is well known that bacteria can reduce selenium and tellurium species (Turner et al 2012). Much less information can be found how microscopic fungi handle with selenium, bismuth, thallium or tellurium.…”

Microbiological Profile of Some Meat Products in Menofia Markets

“…Moreover, the total number of Enterobacteriaceae considered as an indication of possible enteric contamination in the absence of coliforms (Mercuri et al, 1978). Staphylococci can contaminate foods and cause illness in humans when ingested, so it is frequently implicated in food borne illness (Prange et al, 2005).…”

Confocal three-dimensional micro X-ray scatter imaging for non-destructive detecting foreign bodies with low density and low-Z materials in food products

“…Among them, X-ray nondestructive techniques play an important role, e.g., X-ray computed tomography (Fulladosa, Santos-Garc es, Picouet, & Gou, 2010;Garcia-Gil et al, 2014;Santos-Garc es, Muñoz, Gou, GarciaGil, & Fulladosa, 2014), X-ray absorption spectroscopy (Fulladosa, Muñoz, Serra, Arnau, & Gou, 2015;Prange, Birzele, Hormes, & Modrow, 2005), X-ray dark-field imaging (Nielsen, Lauridsen, Christensen, & Feidenhans'l, 2013;Schulz et al, 2010), X-ray coherent scatter imaging (Lakshmanan et al, 2014), X-ray Reflection Tomography (Samson, Mizusawa, & Sakurai, 2011), energy dispersive X-ray fluorescence (XRF) (Tiwari, Sahu, Bhangare, Ajmal, & Pandit, 2014), X-ray diffraction microtomography (Artioli et al, 2010), small-angle X-ray scattering (Bandyopadhyay & Ray, 2011;Xu, Shi, & Wang, 2013). How to identify the low density materials with low-Z elements attracts the concerns from the researchers in medicine, biology, material science, food industry.…”