| a food borne outbreak of gastroenteritis due to shigella and possibly salmonella in a school. | on august 5, 2005, a private hospital reported a large number of students with gastrointestinal illness from the same school in bangkok, thailand. the bureau of epidemiology along with the bangkok metropolitan administration investigated this outbreak, to determine risk factors, identify the source of infection and possible causative organism, and recommend prevention and control strategies. a case was defined as a person who was studying or working at school a and who developed abdominal pain, ... | 2008 | 18564716 |
| recovery of salmonella using a combination of selective enrichment media and antimicrobial resistance of isolates in meat in thailand. | from november 2004 to march 2005, 50 samples (chicken, pork and beef) of registered meat and non-registered meat were purchased from supermarkets and retail markets located in bangkok, thailand. each sample was evaluated for salmonella spp by a conventional method using combination of selective enrichment media (rv+msrv) and compared with selective enrichment medium alone (diasalm). our study revealed the performance of rv+msrv for the detection of salmonella spp was significantly better than th ... | 2006 | 17121300 |
| prevalence of foodborne microorganisms in retail foods in thailand. | worldwide, foodborne illness is often associated with consumption of meats and poultry products sold at retail markets. a cross-sectional retail food study was conducted in bangkok, thailand to assess the prevalence of bacterial pathogens on retail food samples. raw chicken, beef, pork, and chicken eggs were purchased from fresh markets and supermarkets and tested for salmonella spp., campylobacter spp., arcobacter spp., and enterococcus spp. suspect bacterial pathogens were isolated by differen ... | 2007 | 17600488 |
| salmonella in broiler chickens in thailand with special reference to contamination of retail meat with salmonella enteritidis. | the present study was performed to assess the prevalence of salmonella in chickens in thailand. in 1997, 22 serovars of salmonella were isolated from 72 of 100 chicken meat samples purchased from 10 retail markets in bangkok and 20 of 200 chicken meat samples from one slaughterhouse for export and 19 of 285 chicken feces obtained from three farms located in the east region of thailand. the most predominant serovar was s. enteritidis, which was isolated from 28% of the retail chicken meat, 4.5% o ... | 1998 | 9853305 |
| a preliminary study of hyperlipidemia in bangkok school children. | as a preliminary study, we determined the serum lipid profiles among primary school children from four bangkok schools and identified the risk factors and their association with child lipid profiles. we conducted a cross-sectional study using fasting blood samples and food frequency questionnaires. overall, there were 40% that had hypercholesterolemia with total cholesterol (tc) at > or = 200 mg/dl and high low density lipoprotein cholesterol (ldl-c) at > or = 130 mg/dl. overall, 5.4% had high t ... | 2006 | 17153077 |
| the heme iron content of urban and rural thai diets. | this study aimed to investigate the total iron and heme iron in animal foods, and calculate the heme iron content in urban and rural thai diets. the samples included land animals and their products (meat, visceral tissue, blood curd and others), fish as well as other aquatic and marine animals. all samples were collected from 3 randomly selected markets located in bangkok and its vicinity. analysis of heme iron from foods was done by han's method. the results showed the mean heme iron in the ani ... | 2001 | 11758848 |
| japanese encephalitis virus in bangkok: factors influencing vector infections in three suburban communities. | an unexpected outbreak of japanese encephalitis (je) in bangkok in 1985 led us to investigate the vector ecology of urban je from january 1986 to june 1987 at three suburban sites that displayed a wide range of factors imputed to influence je transmission. culex tritaeniorhynchus giles and cx. gelidus theobald, suspected vectors, comprised 71-96% of all mosquitoes collected by co2-baited cdc traps at the three sites. mean of mosquito abundance per two trap-nights per month ranged from 28 to 5,72 ... | 1992 | 1320699 |
| a longitudinal study of japanese encephalitis in suburban bangkok, thailand. | a one-year study of japanese encephalitis (je) in a small focus of transmission was conducted in suburban bangkok in 1985. monthly data were collected on weather, vector density, sentinel pig and chick je antibody seroconversions, and epidemiology as related to human je cases. the primary vector species were found to be culex gelidus and culex tritaeniorhynchus; from which one isolate each was obtained in march and june, respectively. pig je antibody seroconversion peaked in april (the hottest m ... | 1987 | 2896391 |