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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. The Microbial Lipopeptide Paenibacterin Disrupts Desiccation Resistance in Salmonella enterica Serovars Tennessee and Eimsbuettel [Food Microbiology]

    • Applied and Environmental Microbiology

    • Salmonella enterica is increasingly linked to disease outbreaks associated with consumption of low-water-activity (low-aw) foods. Persistence of the pathogen in these foods was attributed to its ability to implement desiccation resistance mechanisms. Published knowledge about methods that disrupt desiccation resistance in S. enterica is lacking. We hypothesize that strong membrane-active compounds disrupt the desiccation resistance that S.

      • Salmonella
      • Bacterial pathogens

  2. Worldwide Epidemiology of Salmonella Serovars in Animal-Based Foods: a Meta-analysis [Food Microbiology]

    • Applied and Environmental Microbiology

    • Salmonella spp. are among the most important foodborne pathogens and the third leading cause of human death among diarrheal diseases worldwide. Animals are the primary source of this pathogen, and animal-based foods are the main transmission route to humans. Thus, understanding the global epidemiology of Salmonella serovars is key to controlling and monitoring this bacterium.

      • Salmonella
      • Bacterial pathogens

  3. Stable-Isotope Probing-Enabled Cultivation of the Indigenous Bacterium Ralstonia sp. Strain M1, Capable of Degrading Phenanthrene and Biphenyl in Industrial Wastewater [Biodegradation]

    • Applied and Environmental Microbiology

    • To identify and obtain the indigenous degraders metabolizing phenanthrene (PHE) and biphenyl (BP) from the complex microbial community within industrial wastewater, DNA-based stable-isotope probing (DNA-SIP) and cultivation-based methods were applied in the present study. DNA-SIP results showed that two bacterial taxa (Vogesella and Alicyclobacillus) were considered the key biodegraders responsible for PHE biodegradation only, whereas Bacillus and Cupriavidus were involved in BP degradation.

      • Chemical contaminants

  4. Bacillus cereus cshA Is Expressed during the Lag Phase of Growth and Serves as a Potential Marker of Early Adaptation to Low Temperature and pH [Food Microbiology]

    • Applied and Environmental Microbiology

    • Bacterial adaptation is characterized by a lag phase during which cells do not multiply or modify their physiology to cope with the constraints of their environment. Our aim was to determine a sequence of events during the lag phase of growth at low temperature and pH for three Bacillus cereus strains.

      • Bacillus cereus

  5. A Novel Cre Recombinase-Mediated In Vivo Minicircle DNA (CRIM) Vaccine Provides Partial Protection against Newcastle Disease Virus [Genetics and Molecular Biology]

    • Applied and Environmental Microbiology

    • Minicircle DNA (mcDNA), which contains only the necessary components for eukaryotic expression and is thus smaller than traditional plasmids, has been designed for application in genetic manipulation. In this study, we constructed a novel plasmid containing both the Cre recombinase under the phosphoglycerate kinase (PGK) promoter and recombinant lox66 and lox71 sites located outside the cytomegalovirus (CMV) expression cassette.

      • Bacterial pathogens

  6. Spatial Distribution of Salmonella enterica in Poultry Shed Environments Observed by Intensive Longitudinal Environmental Sampling [Environmental Microbiology]

    • Applied and Environmental Microbiology

    • Detection of salmonellae within poultry environments is an important component of many food safety programs, but sampling approaches vary greatly and may not enable the detection of salmonellae when bacteria are present at a low prevalence or concentration. Intensive longitudinal sampling within caged sheds enabled us to undertake a longitudinal analysis of the spatial distribution of salmonellae in caged shed environments.

      • Salmonella
      • Bacterial pathogens

  7. Effects of Sublethal Thymol, Carvacrol, and trans-Cinnamaldehyde Adaptation on Virulence Properties of Escherichia coli O157:H7 [Food Microbiology]

    • Applied and Environmental Microbiology

    • Essential oils (EOs) have demonstrated wide-spectrum antimicrobial activities and have been actively studied for their application in foods as alternative natural preservatives. However, information regarding microbial adaptive responses and changes in virulence properties following sublethal EO exposure is still scarce.

      • Escherichia coli O157:H7
      • Bacterial pathogens

  8. The effects of atmospheric cold plasma on inactivation of Listeria monocytogenes and Staphylococcus aureus and some quality characteristics of pastırma—A dry-cured beef product

    • Innovative Food Science & Emerging Technologies

    • Publication date: Available online 29 June 2019

      Innovative Food Science & Emerging Technologies

      Author(s): Veli Gök, Simge Aktop, Mehmet Özkan, Oktay Tomar

      • Listeria monocytogenes
      • Staphylococcus aureus
      • Bacterial pathogens

  9. Study on optimization of removing cadmium by lactobacillus fermentation and its effect on physicochemical and quality properties of rice noodles

    • Food Control

    • Available online 28 June 2019

      Author(s): Jihe Zhu, Yao Chen, Chenghao Lv, Weiguo Wu, Si Qin

      • Heavy Metals
      • Chemical contaminants

  10. Multimycotoxin LC-MS/MS analysis in Pearl millet (Pennisetum glaucum) from Tunisia

    • Food Control

    • Available online 28 June 2019

      Author(s): Hela Houissa, Salma Lasram, Michael Sulyok, Bojan Šarkanj, Angélique Fontana, Caroline Strub, Rudolf Krska, Sabine Galindo, Abdelwahed Ghorbel

      • Aflatoxins
      • Mycotoxins
      • Natural toxins

  11. Synergistic inactivation of Escherichia coli O157:H7 by plasma-activated water and mild heat

    • Food Control

    • Available online 29 June 2019

      Author(s): Qisen Xiang, Wenjie Wang, Dianbo Zhao, Liyuan Niu, Ke Li, Yanhong Bai

      • Bacterial pathogens
      • Escherichia coli O157:H7

  12. Multi-target antibacterial mechanism of eugenol and its combined inactivation with pulsed electric fields in a hurdle strategy on Escherichia coli

    • Food Control

    • Available online 29 June 2019

      Author(s): Debao Niu, Qian-Yi Wang, Er-Fang Ren, Xin-An Zeng, Lang-Hong Wang, Tian-Fu He, Qing-Hui Wen, Charles S. Brennan

      • Bacterial pathogens

  13. Isolation and identification of a Bacillus megaterium strain with ochratoxin A removal ability and antifungal activity

    • Food Control

    • Available online 29 June 2019

      Author(s): Linlin Shang, Xuexia Bai, Chi Chen, Lijun Liu, Mingyan Li, Xiaoshuang Xia, Yun Wang

      • Mycotoxins
      • Natural toxins

  14. Comprehensive quantification of sesame allergens in processed food using liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry

    • Food Control

    • Available online 30 June 2019

      Author(s): Xiuli Ma, Li Hong, Jiukai Zhang, Wensheng Huang, Jianxun Han, Yiqiang Ge, Jinlyu Sun, Ying Chen

  15. Sublethal injury and recovery of Listeria monocytogenes and Escherichia coli O157:H7 after exposure to slightly acidic electrolyzed water

    • Food Control

    • Available online 30 June 2019

      Author(s): Linshu Lan, Ru Zhang, Xianglian Zhang, Hui Shi

      • Bacterial pathogens
      • Escherichia coli O157:H7
      • Listeria monocytogenes

  16. Polyphasic identification of Penicillium spp. isolated from Spanish semi-hard ripened cheeses

    • Food Microbiology

    • Available online 29 June 2019

      Author(s): Juliana Ramos, Juliana Mareze, Eleni Patrinou, Jesús A. Santos, Teresa-María López-Díaz

      • Mycotoxins
      • Natural toxins

  17. Antifungal effect of engineered silver nanoparticles on phytopathogenic and toxigenic Fusarium spp. and their impact on mycotoxin accumulation

    • International Journal of Food Microbiology

    • Available online 30 June 2019

      Author(s): Andrea Tarazona, José V. Gómez, Eva M. Mateo, Misericordia Jiménez, Fernando Mateo

      • Mycotoxins
      • Natural toxins

  18. A Green, Simple, and Rapid Detection for Amaranth in Candy Samples Based on the Fluorescence Quenching of Nitrogen-Doped Graphene Quantum Dots

    • Food Analytical Methods

  19. Surface-Imprinted Gold Nanoparticle-Based Surface-Enhanced Raman Scattering for Sensitive and Specific Detection of Patulin in Food Samples

    • Food Analytical Methods

      • Mycotoxins
      • Natural toxins

  20. Silver Nanoplates and Gold Nanospheres as Probesfor Revealing an “Interference” Phenomenon in a Simultaneous Quantitative Immunochromatographic Assay

    • Food Analytical Methods

      • Bacterial pathogens

  21. Fabrication of biobeads expressing heavy metal-binding protein for removal of heavy metal from wastewater

    • Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology

    • Abstract

      • Heavy Metals
      • Chemical contaminants

  22. Identification of fungi-contaminated peanuts using hyperspectral imaging technology and joint sparse representation model

    • Journal of Food Science and Technology

    • Abstract

      • Aflatoxins
      • Natural toxins

  23. Molecular Genotyping of Hepatitis A Virus, California, USA, 2017–2018

    • Emerging Infectious Diseases

    • We implemented subgenomic and whole-genome sequencing to support the investigation of a large hepatitis A virus outbreak among persons experiencing homelessness, users of illicit drugs, or both in California, USA, during 2017–2018. Genotyping data helped confirm case-patients, track chains of transmission, and monitor the effectiveness of public health control measures.

      • Hepatitis
      • Viruses

  24. Emergence of a Novel Recombinant Norovirus GII.P16-GII.12 Strain Causing Gastroenteritis, Alberta, Canada

    • Emerging Infectious Diseases

    • We identified a novel recombinant GII.P16-GII.12 norovirus associated with epidemic and endemic gastroenteritis during March 1, 2018–February 12, 2019, in Alberta, Canada. GII.12 viruses have not been detected in Alberta since 2000. Comparing the full genome of this strain to previously published sequences revealed this virus to be a novel recombinant strain.

      • Norovirus
      • Viruses

  25. Change in chemical composition during maturation of Artocarpus heterophyllus and its effect on acrylamide formation in deep‐fried jackfruit chips

    • Journal of Food Processing and Preservation

      • Chemical contaminants
      • Chemical contaminants