Nihed Ben Halima
Dr-Ing Nihed Ben Halima holds an Engineering degree in Biology and a Research Master’s degree in Biological Engineering. She defended her PhD in Biological Engineering at the University of Sfax, Tunisia, in 2015.
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Listeria monocytogenes in Medical Research
Bacteria are known to produce compounds of high value such as secondary metabolites used in biotechnological applications. It is therefore worthwhile to think how to exploit a pathogenic bacterium, e.g., Listeria monocytogenes, to be an effective source of bioactive compound used in particular in medicinal purposes. Listeria monocytogenes is considered as an acute contaminated bacterium in foods and could be a causal agent of food-borne diseases. This bacterium is the causal agent of listeriosis, a grave disease, caused by eating contaminated food. Although, L. monocytogenes is a pathogenic microorganism that threatens the progress of food industry, it would be also a reservoir of secondary metabolites such as antibiotics and other metabolites of economic importance when appropriate strain improvement will be addressed. This section would discuss in brief the negative and positive features of L. monocytogenes as either a pathogenic bacterium or an important microorganism in medical research.
Part of the book: Listeria Monocytogenes