Publications by authors named "H Toosa"
Article Synopsis
- A system was developed to display antigens from Enterovirus type 71 (EV71) on the surface of Lactococcus lactis for potential use as an oral vaccine.
- The viral capsid protein (VP1) gene was used to create fusion proteins, which were expressed in E. coli and then introduced to L. lactis.
- Mice fed with L. lactis displaying these proteins showed an immune response, marking this as the first instance of an EV71 antigen on a food-grade organism, which may lead to new vaccine strategies and flexible protein presentations using L. lactis.
Enterococcus species isolated from poultry sources were characterized for their resistance to antibiotics, plasmid content, presence of van genes and their diversity by randomly amplified polymorphic DNA-polymerase chain reaction (RAPD-PCR). The results showed that all isolates were multi-resistance to the antibiotics tested. Ampicillin (15/70) followed by chloramphenicol (37/70) were the most active antibiotics tested against the Enterococcus spp.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFTwenty-eight isolates of E. faecalis and 5 isolates of E. hirae were isolated from chicken samples obtained from markets in Sri Serdang, Selangor.
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