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Assessment of Microbial Quality of Food Products Acquired From Farmers? Markets in Central Virginia

Objective

The proposed project has three objectives:To evaluate microbial quality of food products acquired from farmers' markets in Central Virginia;To investigate the prevalence of multi-drug resistance (MDR) in microorganisms isolated from farmers' market-procured food products; andTo evaluate microbial genomic diversity and their strain relatedness associated with food products and market sources utilizing molecular analysis.

Investigators
Kim, CH; Stein, RO; Ren, SH; Rafie, RE; Nartea, TH
Institution
Virginia State University
Start date
2016
End date
2019
Funding Source
Nat'l. Inst. of Food and Agriculture
Project number
VAXCKim2016
Accession number
1010221
Categories
Antimicrobial Resistance
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