A5062139717- Salmonella and Campylobacter epidemiology
- Probiotics and Fermented Foods
- Protein Hydrolysis and Bioactive Peptides
- Listeria monocytogenes in Food Safety
- Meat and Animal Product Quality
- Animal Nutrition and Physiology
- Food Industry and Aquatic Biology
- Microbial Metabolites in Food Biotechnology
- Viral gastroenteritis research and epidemiology
- Food Quality and Safety Studies
- Food Safety and Hygiene
- Yersinia bacterium, plague, ectoparasites research
- Antibiotic Resistance in Bacteria
- Veterinary medicine and infectious diseases
- Bacillus and Francisella bacterial research
- Bacteriophages and microbial interactions
- Food composition and properties
- GABA and Rice Research
- Proteins in Food Systems
- Bee Products Chemical Analysis
- Agriculture Market Analysis Ukraine
- Bacterial biofilms and quorum sensing
- Zoonotic diseases and public health
- Culinary Culture and Tourism
- Nanoparticles: synthesis and applications
Lithuanian University of Health Sciences
2015-2025
Escherichia coli, a major opportunistic pathogen in chickens, poses serious threat to poultry production and public health via potential zoonotic transmission of ESBL-producing strains. Therefore, this study aimed emphasize broilers as early carriers ESBL E. coli provide deeper insights into antimicrobial resistance these bacteria. Prevalence (MIC) testing cloacal environmental samples from one-day-old five-day-old was conducted on three different growth cycles conventional farm Lithuania....
Safety is the most important criteria of any substance or microorganism applied in food industry. The whole-genome sequencing (WGS) an indigenous dairy isolate LL16 confirmed it to be Lactococcus lactis subsp. with genome size 2,589,406 bp, 35.4% GC content, 246 subsystems, and 1 plasmid (repUS4). Nextera XT library preparation kit was used generate DNA libraries, carried out on Illumina MiSeq platform. In silico analysis L. strain revealed non-pathogenicity absence genes involved...
Antimicrobial resistance was determined for 341 thermophilic Campylobacter jejuni isolates obtained from human clinical cases (n = 101), broiler products 98), dairy cattle 41) and wild birds 101) with known multilocus sequence types (MLST) in Lithuania. The minimum inhibitory concentration (MIC) values ciprofloxacin, tetracycline, gentamycin, ceftriaxone erythromycin were the agar dilution method. MIC compared MLST to find possible associations among isolation source, type antibiotics....
The use of lactic acid bacteria (LAB) in the fermentation process to produce fermented foods has a long history. Furthermore, LAB are beneficial microorganisms known for their health-promoting characteristics. During fermentation, have capacity significant amounts bioactive substances, such as peptides, bacteriocins, acid, exopolysaccharides (EPSs), enzymes, and others. Lactococcus lactis one best-known well-characterized species serves model organism studying LAB. For very time, L. been...
Abstract Background Despite extensive research on microbiome alterations in ulcerative colitis (UC), the role of constituent stable microbiota remains unclear. Results This study, employing 16S rRNA-gene sequencing, uncovers a persistent microbial imbalance both active and quiescent UC patients compared to healthy controls. Using co-occurrence differential abundance analysis, study highlights constituents, featuring Phocaeicola , Collinsella Roseburia Holdemanella Bacteroides that are not...
Campylobacter (C.) jejuni is the leading cause of human campylobacteriosis worldwide. We performed a molecular epidemiological study to investigate genetic relationship among C. strains isolated from diarrhoeal patients, broiler products and dairy cattle in Lithuania.The isolates clinical cases, were genotyped using multilocus sequence typing (MLST). Allele numbers for each housekeeping gene, type (ST), clonal complex (CC) assigned by submitting DNA sequences MLST database (...
This study aimed to utilize two by-products, acid whey and apple pomace, as well an indigenous
Edible film-forming solutions typically undergo thermal treatment to ensure microbial safety before being applied food products. The aim of this study was assess the effects two different heating methods-conventional (CH) and ohmic (OH)-on physical, chemical, microbiological properties liquid acid whey permeate (AWP) protein concentrate (AWPC) edible films. Composition consisted AWPC, sunflower oil, sugar beet pectin, glycerol, whereas AWP-based films were produced with pectin glycerol....
Abstract Background Members of the genus Arcobacter are considered as emerging zoonotic food and waterborne pathogens that cause gastroenteritis bacteremia in humans. However, potential risk species pose to public health remains unassessed various countries, including Baltic states. Therefore, aim this study was determine prevalence, antimicrobial susceptibility presence putative virulence genes isolates recovered from humans, products environmental water Lithuania. Results A total 1862...
Edible coatings as carriers for protective lactic acid bacteria (LAB) can enhance hygienic quality to dairy products. Thus, the aim of this study was improve artisanal acid-curd cheese by applying liquid whey protein concentrate based edible coating with entrapped indigenous antimicrobial Lactobacillus helveticus MI-LH13. The fresh composed 100% (w/w) (LAWPC), apple pectin, sunflower oil, and glycerol containing 6 log10 CFU/mL strain biomass applied on dipping. samples were examined over 21...
The demand for healthy foods without artificial food additives is constantly increasing. Hence, natural preservation methods using bioprotective cultures could be an alternative to chemical preservatives. Thus, the main purpose of this work was screen indigenous lactobacilli isolated from fermented cow milk their safety and antifungal activity select safe strain with strongest fungicidal properties development acid whey protein concentrate (AWPC) based fermentates coatings intended fresh...
This study aimed to investigate the prevalence of Campylobacter jejuni in potential contamination sources that are not regularly monitored such as free-living urban pigeons and crows, dogs, cats environmental water assess possible impact on epidemiology campylobacteriosis children using multilocus sequence typing (MLST). spp. were detected 36.2 % faecal samples birds 40.4 samples. A low was dogs cats, with 7.9 9.1 %, respectively. Further identification isolates revealed pet mostly...
Summary Consumer interest in a healthy lifestyle and health‐promoting natural products is major driving force for the increasing global demand bio‐functional sustainable dairy foods. Supplementation of curd cheese with thermo‐coagulated acid whey protein (TAWP) led to 8–10% higher contents moisture, 23–31% lactose, 12–13% unsaturated, 5–6% monounsaturated, 63% polyunsaturated, 3–4% long‐chain fatty acids. Lipid quality indices – TI, AI, h/H, Omega 6/3 among others, were also significantly...