Gene-based detection of antibiotic resistance and virulence determinants in dairy-associated bacteria and their molecular differentiation using random amplified polymorphic DNA-PCR typing

Hind Tahseen Ibrahim, Noor Adil Abood, Orooba Meteab Faja, Ziad M Alkhozai · 2026

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Cheese, yogurt, and cream can carry bacteria armed with drug resistance and attack genes, a quiet food safety risk. Hind Tahseen Ibrahim and co-authors sample 290 dairy products from local markets in this 2026 study and test the germs they recover.

They found 136 isolates across familiar species, and about half carried genes for blood-breaking toxins or for sticking to tissue, with cheese and cream isolates scoring highest. Many carried several attack traits at once. A fingerprinting method split the isolates into a dozen groups, suggesting contamination enters at several points along the dairy chain rather than one.

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CREATORHind Tahseen Ibrahim, Noor Adil Abood, Orooba Meteab Faja, Ziad M Alkhozai
YEAR2026
COLLECTIONPAPERS
FORMATTXT
FILE SIZE26 KB
VERSION1.0
LICENSECC BY 4.0
RIGHTSCC BY
SOURCEEurope PMC

Source: https://europepmc.org/articles/PMC13314140

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