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Research Publications (Food Safety)

This page tracks research articles published in national and international peer-reviewed journals. Recent articles are available ahead of print and searchable by Journal, Article Title, and Category. Research publications are tracked across six categories: Bacterial Pathogens, Chemical Contaminants, Natural Toxins, Parasites, Produce Safety, and Viruses. Articles produced by USDA Grant Funding Agencies (requires login) and FDA Grant Funding Agencies (requires login) are also tracked in Scopus.

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  1. Prevalence and Distribution of Listeria monocytogenes inlA Alleles Prone to Phase Variation and inlA Alleles with Premature Stop Codon Mutations among Human, Food, Animal, and Environmental Isolates [Food Microbiology]

    • Applied and Environmental Microbiology

    • In Listeria monocytogenes, 18 mutations leading to premature stop codons (PMSCs) in the virulence gene inlA have been identified to date. While most of these mutations represent nucleotide substitutions, a frameshift deletion in a 5' seven-adenine homopolymeric tract (HT) in inlA has also been reported. This HT may play a role in phase variation and was first identified among L. monocytogenes lineage II ribotype DUP-1039C isolates.

      • Listeria monocytogenes
      • Bacterial pathogens

  2. Genomic Evidence Reveals Numerous Salmonella enterica Serovar Newport Reintroduction Events in Suwannee Watershed Irrigation Ponds [Public and Environmental Health Microbiology]

    • Applied and Environmental Microbiology

    • Our previous work indicated a predominance (56.8%) of Salmonella enterica serovar Newport among isolates recovered from irrigation ponds used in produce farms over a 2-year period (B. Li et al., Appl Environ Microbiol 80:6355–6365, http://dx.doi.org/10.1128/AEM.02063-14). This observation provided a valuable set of metrics to explore an underaddressed issue of environmental survival of Salmonella by DNA microarray.

      • Salmonella
      • Bacterial pathogens

  3. Effect of Chitosan Incorporated with Cumin and Eucalyptus Essential Oils As Antimicrobial Agents on Fresh Chicken Meat

    • Journal of Food Processing and Preservation

      • Listeria monocytogenes
      • Bacterial pathogens

  4. Diversity of Mycobacterium tuberculosis across Evolutionary Scales

    • PLOS Pathogens

    • Mary B. O’Neill, Tatum D. Mortimer, Caitlin S. Pepperell

      • Bacterial pathogens

  5. RNA-seq Brings New Insights to the Intra-Macrophage Transcriptome of Salmonella Typhimurium

    • PLOS Pathogens

    • Shabarinath Srikumar, Carsten Kröger, Magali Hébrard, Aoife Colgan, Siân V. Owen, Sathesh K. Sivasankaran, Andrew D. S. Cameron, Karsten Hokamp, Jay C. D. Hinton

      • Salmonella
      • Bacterial pathogens

  6. TcpM, a novel relaxase that mediates transfer of large conjugative plasmids from Clostridium perfringens

    • Molecular Microbiology

    • Summary

      • Clostridium perfringens
      • Antibiotic residues
      • Bacterial pathogens
      • Chemical contaminants

  7. Antimicrobial effect of essential oils in combinations against five bacteria and their effect on sensorial quality of ground meat

    • LWT

    • Publication date: March 2016
      Source:LWT - Food Science and Technology, Volume 66

      Author(s): Mina Ghabraie, Khanh Dang Vu, Lina Tata, Stéphane Salmieri, Monique Lacroix

      • Listeria monocytogenes
      • Staphylococcus aureus
      • Bacterial pathogens

  8. Removal of Salmonella biofilm formed under meat processing environment by surfactant in combination with bio-enzyme

    • LWT

    • Publication date: March 2016
      Source:LWT - Food Science and Technology, Volume 66

      Author(s): Huhu Wang, Huawei Wang, Tong Xing, Na Wu, Xinglian Xu, Guanghong Zhou

      • Salmonella
      • Bacterial pathogens

  9. Characterization of lactic acid bacteria isolated from wheat bran sourdough

    • LWT

    • Publication date: March 2016
      Source:LWT - Food Science and Technology, Volume 66

      Author(s): F. Manini, M.C. Casiraghi, K. Poutanen, M. Brasca, D. Erba, C. Plumed-Ferrer

      • Bacterial pathogens

  10. A comparison of the bactericidal effectiveness of hydrochloric and acetic acid on Staphylococcus aureus in silver carp during a pH-shift protein recovery process

    • LWT

    • Publication date: March 2016
      Source:LWT - Food Science and Technology, Volume 66

      Author(s): Maryam Ronaghi, Sarah Beamer, Jacek Jaczynski, Kristen E. Matak

      • Staphylococcus aureus
      • Bacterial pathogens

  11. Two highly adhesive lactic acid bacteria (LAB) strains are protective in zebrafish infected with Aeromonas hydrophila by evocation of gut mucosal immunity

    • Journal of Applied Microbiology

    • Abstract

      Aims

      • Bacterial pathogens

  12. The Effects of Low Doses of Two Fusarium Toxins,Zearalenone and Deoxynivalenol, on the Pig Jejunum.A Light and Electron Microscopic Study

    • Toxins

    • Immature gilts were administered per os with zearalenone (ZEN) at 40 μg/kg BW (group Z, n = 9), deoxynivalenol (DON) at 12 μg/kg BW (group D, n = 9), a mixture of ZEN and DON (group M, n = 9) or a placebo (group C, n = 9) over a period of six weeks. The pigs were sacrificed after one, three, or six weeks of the treatment (12 pigs per each time-point).

      • Mycotoxins
      • Natural toxins

  13. A Farm to Fork Risk Assessment for the Use of Wastewater in Agriculture in Accra, Ghana

    • PLOS ONE

    • Prince Antwi-Agyei, Sandy Cairncross, Anne Peasey, Vivien Price, Jane Bruce, Kelly Baker, Christine Moe, Joseph Ampofo, George Armah, Jeroen Ensink

      • Norovirus
      • Viruses

  14. Disease Burden of Invasive Listeriosis and Molecular Characterization of Clinical Isolates in Taiwan, 2000-2013

    • PLOS ONE

    • Yu-Tsung Huang, Wen-Chien Ko, Yu-Jiun Chan, Jang-Jih Lu, Hsih-Yeh Tsai, Chun-Hsing Liao, Wang-Huei Sheng, Lee-Jene Teng, Po-Ren Hsueh

      • Listeria monocytogenes
      • Bacterial pathogens

  15. Antimicrobial Effect of Malpighia Punicifolia and Extension of Water Buffalo Steak Shelf-Life

    • Journal of Food Science

    • Abstract

      • Chemical contaminants

  16. Assessment of Enterotoxin Production and Cross-Contamination of Staphylococcus aureus between Food Processing Materials and Ready-To-Eat Cooked Fish Paste

    • Journal of Food Science

    • Abstract

      • Staphylococcus aureus
      • Bacterial pathogens

  17. Inhibitory Effect of Cinnamaldehyde, Citral, and Eugenol on Aflatoxin Biosynthetic Gene Expression and Aflatoxin B1 Biosynthesis in Aspergillus flavus

    • Journal of Food Science

    • Abstract

      • Aflatoxins
      • Natural toxins

  18. Detection, Identification, and Prevalence of Pathogenic Vibrio parahaemolyticus in Fish and Coastal Environment in Jordan

    • Journal of Food Science

    • Abstract

      • Vibrio
      • Bacterial pathogens

  19. Approaches to the Surveillance of Foodborne Disease: A Review of the Evidence

    • Foodborne Pathogens and Disease

    • Online Ahead of Print.

  20. Biofilm Formation Characteristics of Pseudomonas lundensis Isolated from Meat

    • Journal of Food Science

    • Abstract

  21. Dissecting the structural elements for the activation of {beta}-ketoacyl-(acyl carrier protein) reductase from Vibrio cholerae

    • Journal of Bacteriology

    • β-ketoacyl-(acyl carrier protein) reductase (FabG) catalyzes the key reductive reaction in the elongation cycle of fatty acid synthesis (FAS), which is a vital metabolic pathway in bacteria and a promising target for new antibiotic development. The activation of the enzyme is usually linked to the formation of a catalytic triad and cofactor binding, and crystal structures of FabG from different organisms have been captured in either active or inactive conformations.

      • Vibrio
      • Antibiotic residues
      • Bacterial pathogens
      • Chemical contaminants

  22. Transcriptome-wide identification of Hfq-associated RNAs in Brucella suis by deep sequencing

    • Journal of Bacteriology

    • Recent breakthroughs in next generation sequencing technologies have led to the identification of small noncoding RNAs (sRNAs) as a new important class of regulatory molecules. In prokaryotes, sRNAs are often bound to the chaperone protein Hfq, that allows them to interact with their partner mRNA(s). We screened the genome of the zoonotic and human pathogen Brucella suis 1330 for the presence of this class of RNA.

      • Bacterial pathogens

  23. The Mutation Glu151Asp in the B-Component ofthe Bacillus cereus Non-Hemolytic Enterotoxin (Nhe) Leads toa Diverging Reactivity in Antibody-Based Detection Systems

    • Toxins

    • The ability of Bacillus cereus to cause foodborne toxicoinfections leads to increasing concerns regarding consumer protection. For the diarrhea-associated enterotoxins, the assessment of the non-hemolytic enterotoxin B (NheB) titer determined by a sandwich enzyme immunoassay (EIA) correlates best with in vitro cytotoxicity. In general, the regulation of enterotoxin expression of B. cereus is a coordinately-regulated process influenced by environmental, and probably also by host factors.

      • Bacillus cereus

  24. Delay of the Onset of Puberty in Female Rats by Prepubertal Exposure to T-2 Toxin

    • Toxins

    • Growing evidence has revealed the deleterious influence of environmental and food contaminants on puberty onset and development in both animals and children, provoking an increasing health concern. T-2 toxin, a naturally-produced Type A trichothecene mycotoxin which is frequently found in cereal grains and products intended for human and animal consumption, has been shown to impair the reproduction and development in animals.

  25. Construction of an oral vaccine for transmissible gastroenteritis virus based on the TGEV N gene expressed in an attenuated Salmonella typhimurium vector

    • Journal of Virological Methods

    • Publication date: January 2016
      , Volume 227

      Author(s): Dan Zhang, Xiaobo Huang, Xiaohui Zhang, Sanjie Cao, Xintian Wen, Yiping Wen, Rui Wu, Entao Liang

      • Salmonella
      • Bacterial pathogens