Molecular detection of Lecithinase-producing bacteria in some food samples
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The present work was planned to investigate the contamination of
refrigerated and unrefrigerated some food samples either commercial or
homemade by toxigenic bacteria from Al-Madina AL-Munawara, Saudi
Arabia. Sixty bacterial isolates have been recovered on egg yolk agar
(EYA) plates under aerobic conditions giving black colonies as a
characteristic feature of lecithinase production. Fifty three isolates were
obtained from 7 days refrigerated food samples while 7 isolates were
obtained fro