The knowledge transmission in scientific education demands the formulation of methods capable to insert between student and the study object a nearness, making the student apt to build, from autodidactic posture, solutions that only the professional formation can produce. In this sense, a teaching should develop an effective pedagogy, focusing on knowledge production and its preservation, helping the scientific progress. Guided by these concepts, the educational process can be considered complex and should focus on the quality of the transmitted knowledge, through strategies that ensure the maximum information accessibility. In strictu sensu post-graduation context, some particularities related to the knowledge building and not so only the concepts memorization should have more attention, due to the scientific and teacher training goals. The medicinal chemistry area exhibits the necessity to have a great interlocution with other chemistry disciplines, such as organic chemistry, analytical chemistry and as well as disciplines related to human health. In this sense, the evaluation of learning process becomes, currently, a great challenge for professors that seek to develop the interdisciplinary sense. Considering this reality, in this study, the authors present a classroom experience, where specific competences developed in students of medicinal chemistry discipline was a target of evaluation based on creation of review text. From the results obtained was possible to rethink strategies that can contribute to foster new forms to evaluate the learning process based on competences development.

Com o objetivo de avaliar a qualidade microbiológica do leite UHT caprino, 100 amostras provenientes das regiões Sul e Sudeste do país foram analisadas através do isolamento e da identificação de bactérias do gênero Staphylococcus sp., Bacillus sp. e Clostridium sp.. Com exceção do Clostridium sp., todos os gêneros estudados foram isolados. A presença de bactérias mesofílicas foi positiva em 21% das amostras. Bacillus sp. e Staphylococcus sp. foram isoladas em 32% e 36% das amostras analisadas respectivamente. As contagens de Staphylococcus sp. foram em média de 5,21x10¹UFC mL-1, enquanto que para Bacillus sp. foi de 4,87x10¹UFC mL-1. Os resultados encontrados sugerem que o processo térmico UHT utilizado nas amostras de leite não foi suficiente para destruir os microrganismos. Os resultados servem de alerta às autoridades responsáveis pela saúde pública para o risco potencial de determinadas bactérias produtoras de toxinas causarem intoxicação alimentar. Estes dados ressaltam a importância da criação de programas efetivos de controle e prevenção destes agentes desde a obtenção do leite até seu beneficiamento.

The aim of this study was to evaluate the microbiological quality of UHT (Ultra High Tempereture) goat milk. Microbiological analysis was used for detection and isolation of the genera Staphylococcus sp., Bacillus sp. and Clostridium sp. in one hundred of samples from different regions of the country. All genera mentioned, excepting Clostridium sp., have been found in the analyzed samples. The mesophilic bacteria were positive in 21% of samples. Bacillus sp. and Staphylococcus sp. were isolated in 32% and 36% of the analysed samples respectivelly . The mean of Staphylococcus sp. were of 5,21x10¹CFU mL-1. Meanwhile for Bacillus sp. were 4,87x10¹CFU mL-1. The results suggest that thermal process UHT used in these samples was not enough to destroy the microorganisms. This information is important to warn Public Health authorities about the potential risks of these food-poisoning microorganisms. Effective improvement of programs is necessary to control and prevent these agents therefore improving milk quality.

O besouro Alphitobius diaperinus spp (cascudinho) é visto como uma importante praga da avicultura mundial. Por suas características comportamentais e hábitos biológicos que dificultam seu controle, é considerado um vetor de agentes patogênicos. O objetivo desta pesquisa foi investigar o cascudinho como possível vetor de Clostridium perfringens em granjas avícolas industriais, localizadas em diferentes regiões do interior Paulista. Através de métodos bacteriológicos convencionais, em 40 amostras analisadas, foram encontradas contagens significativas de Clostridium perfringens em todas elas. A partir dos resultados obtidos, pôde-se demonstrar o potencial deste inseto como vetor do agente responsável pela enterite necrótica.

The Alphitobius diaperinus spp (lesser mealworm) is considered an important world poultry plague. Due to its behavior characteristics and biological habits that make its control difficult it is considered a vector of pathogenic agents. The objective of this research was to investigate the little mealworm as possible vector of Clostridium perfringens in broiler houses, located in different parts of the state of São Paulo. Through conventional bacteriological methods, 40 samples of little mealworm collected were analyzed. Clostridium perfringens was found in all of the samples and the potential of this insect as vector of the necrotic enteritis was demonstrated.

Escherichia coli faz parte da microbiota anaeróbica facultativa normal, sendo também considerada um dos maiores patógenos entéricos predominantes no cólon dos animais e homem. Neste trabalho, realizaram-se ensaios "in vitro" para avaliar o grau de atividade antagonista de cinco cepas de Lactobacillus acidophilus, com capacidade probiótica sobre Escherichia coli BIA 26 (STEC) isolada de queijo "Minas Frescal". Para tanto, foi utilizado o teste de inibição através do método de dupla camada em triplicata para avaliar zonas de inibição de crescimento. Todas as cepas de Lactobacillus mostraram-se capazes de inibir a E. coli, com zonas de inibição variando de 12 a 15mm de diâmetro, sendo que a maioria apresentou 14mm de diâmetro, consideradas como fortes halos de inibição.

Escherichia coli is part of the normal facultative anaerobic microflora and one of the major enteric pathogens in the colon of animals and humans. In vitro trials were conducted to evaluate the level of antagonistic activity of five strains of Lactobacillus acidophilus with probiotic effect on Escherichia coli BIA 26 (STEC), which was isolated from 'Minas frescal' cheese. Inhibition assays were carried out using the double layer method in triplicates to evaluate growth inhibition zones. All L. acidophilus strains were capable to inhibit E. coli, with inhibition zones ranging from 12 to 15mm, but mostly around 14mm in diameter, and considered strong inhibition halos.