Shiga (Vero)-toxin producing isolated from the hospital foods; virulence factors, o-serogroups and antimicrobial resistance properties.

Background: According to the presence of the weak, diabetic and immunosuppressive patients in hospitals, hospital foods should have a high quality and safety. Cooking a lot of foods higher than daily requirement, storage of cooked foods in an inappropriate condition and presence of nurses and servants in distribution of food to patients are the main reasons caused contamination of hospital foods. Shiga toxigenic is one of the common cause of food poisoning in hospitals.

Helicobacter pylori in vegetables and salads: genotyping and antimicrobial resistance properties.

From a clinical and epidemiological perspective, it is important to know which genotypes and antibiotic resistance patterns are present in H. pylori strains isolated from salads and vegetables. Therefore, the present investigation was carried out to find this purpose.