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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. Development of Disease-specific, Context-specific Surveillance Models: Avian Influenza (H5N1)-Related Risks and Behaviours in African Countries

    • Zoonoses and Public Health

    • Avian influenza virus (H5N1) is a rapidly disseminating infection that affects poultry and, potentially, humans. Because the avian virus has already adapted to several mammalian species, decreasing the rate of avian–mammalian contacts is critical to diminish the chances of a total adaptation of H5N1 to humans. To prevent the pandemic such adaptation could facilitate, a biology-specific disease surveillance model is needed, which should also consider geographical and socio-cultural factors.

  2. Salmonella enterica Serotype Enteritidis in French Polynesia, South Pacific, 2008–2013

    • Emerging Infectious Diseases

    • Outbreaks of Salmonella enterica serotype Enteritidis infections associated with eggs occurred in French Polynesia during 2008–2013. Molecular analysis of isolates by using clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeat polymorphisms and multilocus variable-number tandem-repeat analysis was performed. This subtyping made defining the epidemic strain, finding the source, and decontaminating affected poultry flocks possible.

      • Bacterial pathogens

  3. Control of Histamine-Producing Bacteria and Histamine Formation in Fish Muscle by Trisodium Phosphate

    • Journal of Food Science

    • Scombrotoxin fish poisoning remains the primary cause of seafood poisoning outbreaks despite preventive guidelinesThe purpose of this study was to investigate the use of pH for the control of growth and histamine formation by histamine-producing bacteria in fish muscle. We examined pH effects on growth and histamine formation in tuna fish infusion broth and in inoculated tuna and mahi-mahi fish muscle.

      • Natural toxins

  4. Rapid Detection of Melamine in Milk Using Immunological Separation and Surface Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy

    • Journal of Food Science

    • We integrated immunological separation and surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopySERS) to detect melamine in milk. Antimelamine was produced by New Zealand white rabbits following the injection with melamine hapten-ovalbumin immunogen. Melamine was separated from milk by binding to the converted protein G-antimelamine complex. After releasing antimelamine and melamine from the complex, the eluents were deposited directly onto the silver dendrite SERS-active substrate for spectral collection.

      • Chemical contaminants

  5. Controlling Listeria monocytogenes in Cold Smoked Salmon with the Antimicrobial Peptide Salmine

    • Journal of Food Science

    • Listeria monocytogenesLM) is a major safety concern for smoked salmon producers, as it can survive both the brining and smoking process in cold smoked salmon production. Salmine is a cationic antimicrobial peptide derived from the milt of salmon that has been shown to inhibit the growth of LM in vitro. Commercialization of this peptide would add value to a waste product produced when raising salmon.

      • Bacterial pathogens
      • Listeria monocytogenes

  6. Structural Variabilities in β-Lactamase (blaA) of Different Biovars of Yersinia enterocolitica: Implications for β-Lactam Antibiotic and β-Lactamase Inhibitor Susceptibilities

    • PLOS ONE

    • Neelja Singhal, Abhishikha Srivastava, Manish Kumar, Jugsharan Singh Virdi

      • Bacterial pathogens
      • Chemical contaminants
      • Antibiotic residues

  7. Fungi and the natural occurrence of deoxynivalenol and fumonisins in malting barley (Hordeum vulgare L.)

    • Food Chemistry

    • Publication date: 15 November 2015
      , Volume 187
      Author(s): Karim C. Piacentini , Geovana D. Savi , Maria E.V. Pereira , Vildes M. Scussel

      • Mycotoxins
      • Natural toxins

  8. Recombination between Streptococcus suis ICESsu32457 and Streptococcus agalactiae ICESa2603 yields a hybrid ICE transferable to Streptococcus pyogenes

    • Veterinary Microbiology

    • Publication date: Available online 24 April 2015

      Author(s): Emanuela Marini , Claudio Palmieri , Gloria Magi , Bruna Facinelli

  9. Mechanisms of antimicrobial resistant Salmonella enterica transmission associated with starling-livestock interactions

    • Veterinary Microbiology

    • Publication date: Available online 21 April 2015

      Author(s): James C. Carlson , Doreene R. Hyatt , Jeremy W. Ellis , David R. Pipkin , Anna M. Mangan , Michael Russell , Denise S. Bolte , Richard M. Engeman , Thomas J. DeLiberto , George M. Linz

      • Salmonella
      • Bacterial pathogens

  10. Identification and characterization of a novel antigenic epitope in the hemagglutinin of the escape mutants of H9N2 avian influenza viruses

    • Veterinary Microbiology

    • Publication date: Available online 23 April 2015

      Author(s): Yinbiao Zhu , Da Yang , Qian Ren , Yang Yang , Xin Liu , Xiulong Xu , Wei Liu , Sujuan Chen , Daxin Peng , Xiufan Liu

  11. Outbreak of Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium phage type DT41 in Danish poultry production

    • Veterinary Microbiology

    • Publication date: Available online 25 April 2015

      Author(s): Charlotta Löfström , Ann-Sofie Hintzmann , Gitte Sørensen , Dorte Lau Baggesen

      • Salmonella
      • Bacterial pathogens

  12. Ascertaining the relationship between Salmonella Typhimurium and Salmonella 4,[5],12:i:- by MLVA and inferring the sources of human salmonellosis due to the two serovars in Italy

    • Frontiers in Microbiology

    • Lisa Barco, Federica Barrucci, Enzo Cortini, Elena Ramon, John Elmerdahl Olsen, Ida Luzzi, Antonia Anna Lettini and Antonia Ricci The current picture of human salmonellosis shows Salmonella Typhimurium and S. 4,[5],12:i:- as the most common serovars in Italy. The aims of this study were to investigate the genetic relationship between these serovars, as well as to test the possibility of inferring sources of human salmonellosis due to S. Typhimurium and S.

      • Bacterial pathogens

  13. Influences of Operating Parameters on the Formation of Furan During Heating Based on Models of Polyunsaturated Fatty Acids

    • Journal of Food Science

    • Furana possible carcinogen, is commonly produced by thermal processing in a number of heated foods. The existence of furan levels in foods has attracted considerable attention worldwide. Recent research of furan in food has focused on the possible influences of operating parameters on the furan formation during heat processing.

      • Chemical contaminants

  14. Antigenic Relatedness of Norovirus GII.4 Variants Determined by Human Challenge Sera

    • PLOS ONE

    • Ying-Chun Dai, Xu-Fu Zhang, Ming Xia, Ming Tan, Christina Quigley, Wen Lei, Hao Fang, Weiming Zhong, Bonita Lee, Xiaoli Pang, Jun Nie, Xi Jiang

      • Norovirus

  15. Old Friends in New Places: Exploring the Role of Extraintestinal E. coli in Intestinal Disease and Foodborne Illness

    • Zoonoses and Public Health

    • The emergence of new antibiotic-resistant Escherichia coli pathotypes associated with human disease has led to an investigation in terms of the origins of these pathogens. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, unspecified agents are responsible for 38.4 million of the 48 million (80%) cases of foodborne illnesses each year in the United States.

  16. Antimicrobial Resistance and Multilocus Sequence Types of Finnish Campylobacter jejuni Isolates from Multiple Sources

    • Zoonoses and Public Health

    • Antimicrobial susceptibility was determined for 805 domestic Campylobacter jejuni isolates obtained from broilers (n = 459), bovines (n = 120), human patients (n = 95), natural waters (n = 80), wild birds (n = 35) and zoo animals/enclosures (n = 16) with known multilocus sequence types (MLST) for 450 isolates.

  17. Assessment of Risk Factors in Milk Contamination with Staphylococcus aureus in Urban and Peri-Urban Small-Holder Dairy Farming in Central Ethiopia

    • Zoonoses and Public Health

    • Assessment of risk factors associated with milk production systems is central to ensuring quality and safety of milk and milk products. This study was aimed at identifying possible risk factors in milk contamination in urban and peri-urban areas of the central high lands of Ethiopia.

  18. Clostridium perfringens Alpha-Toxin Induces Gm1a Clustering and Trka Phosphorylation in the Host Cell Membrane

    • PLOS ONE

    • Teruhisa Takagishi, Masataka Oda, Michiko Kabura, Mie Kurosawa, Kaori Tominaga, Shiori Urano, Yoshibumi Ueda, Keiko Kobayashi, Toshihide Kobayashi, Jun Sakurai, Yutaka Terao, Masahiro Nagahama

      • Bacterial pathogens
      • Clostridium perfringens

  19. Metabolic Outcome of Female Mice Exposed to a Mixture of Low-Dose Pollutants in a Diet-Induced Obesity Model

    • PLOS ONE

    • Danielle Naville, Emmanuel Labaronne, Nathalie Vega, Claudie Pinteur, Emmanuelle Canet-Soulas, Hubert Vidal, Brigitte Le Magueresse-Battistoni

      • Dioxins
      • Chemical contaminants

  20. Cross-priming amplification targeting the coagulase gene for rapid detection of coagulase-positive Staphylococci

    • Journal of Applied Microbiology

    • Aims
      To develop and evaluate cross-priming amplification (CPA) combined with immuno-blotting for detection of coagulase-positive Staphylococci including Staphylococcus aureus.

      • Bacterial pathogens

  21. Content evaluation of 4 furanocoumarin monomers in various citrus germplasms

    • Food Chemistry

    • Publication date: 15 November 2015
      , Volume 187
      Author(s): Juan Xu , Lili Ma , Dong Jiang , Shiping Zhu , Fuhua Yan , Yunxia Xie , Zongzhou Xie , Wenwu Guo , Xiuxin Deng

      • Chemical contaminants

  22. Application of solvent-assisted dispersive solid phase extraction as a new, fast, simple and reliable preconcentration and trace detection of lead and cadmium ions in fruit and water samples

    • Food Chemistry

    • Publication date: 15 November 2015
      , Volume 187
      Author(s): Mohammad Behbahani , Parmoon Ghareh Hassanlou , Mostafa M. Amini , Fariborz Omidi , Ali Esrafili , Mehdi Farzadkia , Akbar Bagheri

      • Heavy Metals
      • Chemical contaminants

  23. Development of a new method for the simultaneous determination of 21 mycotoxins in coffee beverages by liquid chromatography tandem mass spectrometry

    • Food Research International

    • Publication date: June 2015
      , Volume 72
      Author(s): Ana García-Moraleja , Guillermina Font , Jordi Mañes , Emilia Ferrer

      • Mycotoxins
      • Natural toxins
      • Aflatoxins

  24. Changing hepatitis A epidemiology in the European Union: new challenges and opportunities

    • Eurosurveillance

    • This perspective on hepatitis A in the European Union and European Economic Area (EU/EEA) presents epidemiological data on new cases and outbreaks and vaccination policies. Hepatitis A endemicity in the EU/EEA ranges from very low to intermediate with a decline in notification rates in recent decades. Vaccination uptake has been insufficient to compensate for the increasing number of susceptible individuals. Large outbreaks occur.

      • Hepatitis

  25. A multi-country Salmonella Enteritidis phage type 14b outbreak associated with eggs from a German producer: 'near real-time' application of whole genome sequencing and food chain investigations, United Kingdom, May to September 2014

    • Eurosurveillance

    • We report an outbreak of Salmonella Enteritidis phage type 14b (PT14b) in the United Kingdom (UK) between May and September 2014 where Public Health England launched an investigation to identify the source of infection and implement control measures. During the same period, outbreaks caused by a Salmonella Enteritidis strain with a specific multilocus variable-number tandem repeat analysis (MLVA) profile occurred in other European Union Member States.

      • Bacterial pathogens