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Microbial Contamination of Seven Major Weaning Foods in Nigeria

Five million children aged less than five years die annually due to diarrhoea. The aim of the study was to identify some possible contributing factors for persistent diarrhoea. Seven weaning foods, including a locally-made food, were evaluated by estimating the microbial load using the most probable...

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Autores principales: Oluwafemi, F., Ibeh, I. Nnanna
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh 2011
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3190373/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21957681
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description Five million children aged less than five years die annually due to diarrhoea. The aim of the study was to identify some possible contributing factors for persistent diarrhoea. Seven weaning foods, including a locally-made food, were evaluated by estimating the microbial load using the most probable number method and aflatoxin levels (AFM(1), AFG(1), AFG(2), and AFB(2)) by immunoaffinity column extraction and high-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) with detection of fluorescence. The results showed that the locally-made weaning food had the highest microbial count (2,000 cfu/g) and faecal streptococcal count (25 cfu/g). Moulds isolated were mainly Aspergillus niger, A. flavus, A. glaucus, Cladosporium sp., and Penicillium sp. The home-made weaning food recorded the highest fungal count (6,500 cfu/g). AFM(1) of the weaning foods was 4.6-530 ng/mL. One weaning food had AFB(1) level of 4,806 ng/g. Aflatoxin metabolites, apart from AFM(1) and AFB(1) present in the weaning foods, were AFG(1) and AFG(2). There were low microbial counts in commercial weaning foods but had high levels of aflatoxins (AFM(1), AFG(1), AFG(2), AFB(1), and AFB(2)). Growth and development of the infant is rapid, and it is, thus, possible that exposure to aflatoxins in weaning foods might have significant health effects.
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spelling pubmed-31903732011-10-17 Microbial Contamination of Seven Major Weaning Foods in Nigeria Oluwafemi, F. Ibeh, I. Nnanna J Health Popul Nutr Short Report Five million children aged less than five years die annually due to diarrhoea. The aim of the study was to identify some possible contributing factors for persistent diarrhoea. Seven weaning foods, including a locally-made food, were evaluated by estimating the microbial load using the most probable number method and aflatoxin levels (AFM(1), AFG(1), AFG(2), and AFB(2)) by immunoaffinity column extraction and high-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) with detection of fluorescence. The results showed that the locally-made weaning food had the highest microbial count (2,000 cfu/g) and faecal streptococcal count (25 cfu/g). Moulds isolated were mainly Aspergillus niger, A. flavus, A. glaucus, Cladosporium sp., and Penicillium sp. The home-made weaning food recorded the highest fungal count (6,500 cfu/g). AFM(1) of the weaning foods was 4.6-530 ng/mL. One weaning food had AFB(1) level of 4,806 ng/g. Aflatoxin metabolites, apart from AFM(1) and AFB(1) present in the weaning foods, were AFG(1) and AFG(2). There were low microbial counts in commercial weaning foods but had high levels of aflatoxins (AFM(1), AFG(1), AFG(2), AFB(1), and AFB(2)). Growth and development of the infant is rapid, and it is, thus, possible that exposure to aflatoxins in weaning foods might have significant health effects. International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh 2011-08 /pmc/articles/PMC3190373/ /pubmed/21957681 Text en © INTERNATIONAL CENTRE FOR DIARRHOEAL DISEASE RESEARCH, BANGLADESH http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.5/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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