Prevalence of Bacillus cereus in dairy powders focusing on its toxigenic genes and antimicrobial resistance.

ABSTRACT: Bacillus cereus is a common environmental foodborne microorganism that is mainly found to harbor toxigenic genes with multiple antibiotic resistances and is linked to threatening the safety of dried milk in concern to powdered infant milk formula. In the current investigation, the mean value of B. cereus in 140 samples of powdered milk was 0.57 × 10² ± 0.182 × 10², 0.15 × 10² ± 0.027 × 10², 0.21 × 10² ± 0.035 × 10², and 0.32 × 10² ± 0.072 × 10² CFU/g in a percentage of 64.0 samples of whole milk powder, 43.3 of skim milk powder, 26.7 of powdered infant milk formula and 36.7 milk-cereal-based infant formula, respectively. The results revealed that B. cereus isolates were found to harbor toxigenic genes i

SUBMITTER: Ibrahim AS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9120150 | biostudies-literature | 2022 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature