Publications by authors named "R Lenz"
Listeria monocytogenes can contaminate refrigerated ready-to-eat foods, such as cheeses. Enterocins, with a strong listericidal effect, constitute a natural alternative to control this pathogen in food. To optimize their antimicrobial action in food matrices, bacteriocins can be immobilised in edible coatings through spray drying technology which allows the large-scale production of microcapsules of bioactive molecules.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThis review will provide new ideas for preserving fruits and decreasing fruit waste. This review outlines and evaluates research concerning postharvest fruit preservation employing antimicrobial strategies, which involve the integration of biological control alongside physical or chemical methods. The concurrent deployment of two or three of these techniques, particularly biological approaches, has demonstrated enhanced and synergistic antimicrobial outcomes in practical scenarios.
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- * Current ILCs often struggle with variability due to the difficulty of producing identical samples, which complicates uncertainty measurement.
- * The authors propose a filtration-immobilization technique that allows the same sample to be measured across different labs, showing a 77% reduction in measurement uncertainty compared to traditional ILC methods, with potential applications for archiving and creating reference samples in other areas of research.
Introduction: The Cardiovascular Health Program (PSCV), founded by the Ministry of Health of Chile (Minsal), is focused on the global cardiovascular risk of people with the purpose of preventing and reducing morbidity, disability and premature death caused by cardiovascular diseases, in congruence with its sanitary aims. Quaternary Prevention is defined as "actions taken to protect individuals from medical interventions that are likely to cause more harm than good". The PSVC's 2017 technical guidelines establish a battery of 11 complementary exams to request upon entering the program, however, neither the scientific evidence that supports them nor the periodicity of their request was mentioned.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFLeg Ulceration with Infected Calcinosis Cutis Mimicking Osteomyelitis: A Case Report.
J Am Podiatr Med Assoc
September 2024
Article Synopsis
- - A patient developed a leg ulcer after a skin biopsy, which did not heal because of an underlying calcified mass, leading to multiple hospital visits for sepsis.
- - The condition diagnosed was calcinosis cutis, suspected to be the cause of repeated infections associated with the ulcer.
- - After the calcified mass was surgically removed, the patient healed without further infections, emphasizing the need to investigate calcified masses in nonhealing leg ulcers.