Richard Dietrich

TL;DR: The PASA system proved to be the first immunochemical biosensor platform having the potential to test for numerous antibiotics in parallel, such being of considerable interest for the control of milk in the dairy industry.

TL;DR: Cereal samples were collected in 1998 from Bulgarian villages without or with a history of Balkan endemic nephropathy and highest concentrations of ochratoxin and citrinin were found in samples from endemic villages.

TL;DR: The hemolytic enterotoxin HBL seems to be broadly distributed among strains of the B. cereus group and relates neither to a certain species nor to a specific environment, and the consequences for food safety considerations need to be evaluated.

TL;DR: Evidence is provided that specific and quantitative determination of the enterotoxins is necessary to evaluate the toxic potential of B. cereus and the level of Nhe seems to explain most of the cytotoxic activity of B.'s cereus isolates and may indicate a highly diarrheic potential.

TL;DR: The findings of this study suggest that Stx1 is not as conserved as thought before and that there might be more variants which cannot be detected by commonly used PCR methods.