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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. Chronic Brucella Infection Induces Selective and Persistent Interferon Gamma-Dependent Alterations of Marginal Zone Macrophages in the Spleen [Host Response and Inflammation]

    • Infection and Immunity

    • The spleen is known as an important filter for blood-borne pathogens that are trapped by specialized macrophages in the marginal zone (MZ): the CD209+ MZ macrophages (MZMs) and the CD169+ marginal metallophilic macrophages (MMMs). Acute systemic infection strongly impacts MZ populations and the location of T and B lymphocytes. This phenomenon has been linked to reduced chemokine secretion by stromal cells. Brucella spp. are the causative agent of brucellosis, a widespread zoonotic disease.

      • Bacterial pathogens

  2. Prevalence, Molecular Characterization, and Antibiotic Susceptibility of Cronobacter sakazakii Isolates from Powdered Infant Formula Collected from Chinese Retail Markets

    • Frontiers in Microbiology

    • Peng Fei, Yichao Jiang, Yan Jiang, Xiujuan Yuan, Tongxiang Yang, Junliang Chen, Ziyuan Wang, Huaibin Kang, Stephen J. Forsythe

      • Cronobacter
      • Bacterial pathogens

  3. Occurrence of Salmonella enterica and Escherichia coli in raw chicken and beef meat in northern Egypt and dissemination of their antibiotic resistance markers

    • Gut Pathogens

    • The global incidence of foodborne infections and antibiotic resistance is recently increased and considered of public health concern. Currently, scarcely information is available on foodborne infections and ES...

      • Bacterial pathogens

  4. Identification and characterization of pesticide metabolites in Brassica species by liquid chromatography travelling wave ion mobility quadrupole time-of-flight mass spectrometry (UPLC-TWIMS-QTOF-MS)

    • Food Chemistry

    • Publication date: 1 April 2018
      , Volume 244

      Author(s): Anna Bauer, Jens Luetjohann, Franziska S. Hanschen, Monika Schreiner, Jürgen Kuballa, Eckard Jantzen, Sascha Rohn

      • Pesticide residues
      • Chemical contaminants

  5. Green and efficient removal of cadmium from rice flour using natural deep eutectic solvents

    • Food Chemistry

    • Publication date: 1 April 2018
      , Volume 244

      Author(s): Yao Huang, Fang Feng, Zhi-Gang Chen, Tao Wu, Zi-Han Wang

      • Heavy Metals
      • Chemical contaminants

  6. 9,10-Anthraquinone deposit in tea plantation might be one of the reasons for contamination in tea

    • Food Chemistry

    • Publication date: 1 April 2018
      , Volume 244

      Author(s): Xuan Wang, Li Zhou, Fengjian Luo, Xinzhong Zhang, Hezhi Sun, Mei Yang, Zhengyun Lou, Zongmao Chen

  7. Comparative proteomic profiling of myofibrillar proteins in dry-cured ham with different proteolysis indices and adhesiveness

    • Food Chemistry

    • Publication date: 1 April 2018
      , Volume 244

      Author(s): M. López-Pedrouso, C. Pérez-Santaescolástica, D. Franco, E. Fulladosa, J. Carballo, C. Zapata, J.M. Lorenzo

  8. In Bacillus subtilis, the SatA (Formerly YyaR) Acetyltransferase Detoxifies Streptothricin via Lysine Acetylation [Physiology]

    • Applied and Environmental Microbiology

    • Soil is a complex niche, where survival of microorganisms is at risk due to the presence of antimicrobial agents. Many microbes chemically modify cytotoxic compounds to block their deleterious effects. Streptothricin is a broad-spectrum antibiotic produced by streptomycetes that affects Gram-positive and Gram-negative bacteria alike.

      • Bacterial pathogens

  9. Critical Synergistic Concentration of Lecithin Phospholipids Improves the Antimicrobial Activity of Eugenol against Escherichia coli [Food Microbiology]

    • Applied and Environmental Microbiology

    • In this study, the effect of individual lecithin phospholipids on the antimicrobial properties of eugenol against Escherichia coli C600 was investigated.

      • Bacterial pathogens

  10. Lactolisterin BU, a Novel Class II Broad-Spectrum Bacteriocin from Lactococcus lactis subsp. lactis bv. diacetylactis BGBU1-4 [Food Microbiology]

    • Applied and Environmental Microbiology

    • Lactococcus lactis subsp. lactis bv. diacetylactis BGBU1-4 produces a novel bacteriocin, lactolisterin BU, with strong antimicrobial activity against many species of Gram-positive bacteria, including important food spoilage and foodborne pathogens, such as Listeria monocytogenes, Staphylococcus aureus, Bacillus spp., and streptococci.

      • Listeria monocytogenes
      • Staphylococcus aureus
      • Bacterial pathogens

  11. The Arsenic Resistance-Associated Listeria Genomic Island LGI2 Exhibits Sequence and Integration Site Diversity and a Propensity for Three Listeria monocytogenes Clones with Enhanced Virulence [Food Microbiology]

    • Applied and Environmental Microbiology

    • In the foodborne pathogen Listeria monocytogenes, arsenic resistance is encountered primarily in serotype 4b clones considered to have enhanced virulence and is associated with an arsenic resistance gene cluster within a 35-kb chromosomal region, Listeria genomic island 2 (LGI2). LGI2 was first identified in strain Scott A and includes genes putatively involved in arsenic and cadmium resistance, DNA integration, conjugation, and pathogenicity.

      • Listeria monocytogenes
      • Heavy Metals
      • Bacterial pathogens
      • Chemical contaminants

  12. Environmental Determinants of Vibrio parahaemolyticus in the Chesapeake Bay [Public and Environmental Health Microbiology]

    • Applied and Environmental Microbiology

    • Vibrio parahaemolyticus naturally occurs in brackish and marine waters and is one of the leading causes of seafood-borne illness. Previous work studying the ecology of V. parahaemolyticus has often been limited in geographic extent and lacked a full range of environmental measures. This study used a unique large data set of surface water samples in the Chesapeake Bay (n = 1,385) collected from 148 monitoring stations from 2007 to 2010.

      • Vibrio
      • Bacterial pathogens

  13. Characterization of an Olive Flounder Bone Gelatin-Zinc Oxide Nanocomposite Film and Evaluation of Its Potential Application in Spinach Packaging

    • Journal of Food Science

    • Abstract

      • Listeria monocytogenes
      • Bacterial pathogens

  14. Sodium tripolyphosphate inhibits the formation of lysinoalanine in heat-treated whey protein

    • Journal of Food Processing and Preservation

  15. Effect of chlorine dioxide on decontamination of fresh-cut coriander and identification of bacterial species in fresh-cutting process

    • Journal of Food Processing and Preservation

      • Staphylococcus aureus
      • Bacterial pathogens

  16. Survey of Veterinary Drug Residues in Raw Milk in Hebei Province, China

    • Journal of Food Protection

    • Journal of Food Protection, Volume 80, Issue 11, Page 1890-1896, November 2017.

      • Antibiotic residues
      • Chemical contaminants

  17. Detection of Total and Pathogenic Vibrio parahaemolyticus in Shellfish Growing along the South Yellow Sea and the East China Sea

    • Journal of Food Protection

    • Journal of Food Protection, Volume 80, Issue 11, Page 1882-1889, November 2017.

      • Vibrio
      • Bacterial pathogens

  18. First Detection of CTX-M-1 in Extended-Spectrum β-Lactamase–Producing Escherichia coli in Seafood from Tunisia

    • Journal of Food Protection

    • Journal of Food Protection, Volume 80, Issue 11, Page 1877-1881, November 2017.

      • Bacterial pathogens

  19. Phenotypic and genotypic profile of clinical and animal multi-drug resistant Salmonella enterica isolates from Mexico

    • Journal of Applied Microbiology

    • Abstract

      Aims

      The objective of this study was to obtain a phenotypic and genotypic profile of Salmonella enterica including multidrug-resistant isolates from food-producing animals and clinical isolates, as well as their genetic relatedness in two different States of Mexico (Jalisco and State of Mexico).

      • Salmonella
      • Bacterial pathogens

  20. Identifying the mechanism of Escherichia coli O157:H7 survival by the addition of salt in the treatment with organic acids

    • Journal of Applied Microbiology

    • Abstract

      Aim

      In this study, the effects of addition of salt to treatment with acids (one of several organic acids and salt in various solutions including rich or minimal broth, buffer, or distilled water) on the reduction of Escherichia coli O157:H7 were investigated. The protein expression profiles corresponding to acid stress (acetic acid) with or without salt addition were studied using a comparative proteomic analysis of E. coli O157:H7.

      • Escherichia coli O157:H7
      • Bacterial pathogens

  21. Potential Information Loss Due to Categorization of Minimum Inhibitory Concentration Frequency Distributions

    • Foodborne Pathogens and Disease

    • Online Ahead of Print.

  22. Resistance of phages lytic to pathogenic Escherichia coli to sanitisers used by the food industry and in home settings

    • International Journal of Food Science & Technology

    • Summary

      • Bacterial pathogens

  23. Transcriptional Regulation of the Type VI Secretion System 1 Genes by Quorum Sensing and ToxR in Vibrio parahaemolyticus

    • Frontiers in Microbiology

    • Yiquan Zhang, He Gao, George Osei-Adjei, Ying Zhang, Wenhui Yang, Huiying Yang, Zhe Yin, Xinxiang Huang, Dongsheng Zhou

      • Bacterial pathogens
      • Vibrio

  24. Reduction of in utero lead exposures in South African populations: Positive impact of unleaded petrol

    • PLOS ONE

    • Halina B. Röllin, Bukola Olutola, Kalavati Channa, Jon Ø. Odland

      Background

      Prenatal exposure to lead (Pb) has been shown to have negative and irreversible health impacts on foetal and early childhood development, affecting morbidity and mortality in adulthood. This study aimed to assess in utero Pb exposure, examine birth outcomes, and identify confounding factors in the large cohort of South African population, following the legislated removal of Pb from petrol.

      • Chemical contaminants
      • Heavy Metals
      • Pesticide residues

  25. Proinflammatory response of canine trophoblasts to Brucella canis infection

    • PLOS ONE

    • Andrea G. Fernández, M. Soledad Hielpos, Mariana C. Ferrero, Carlos A. Fossati, Pablo C. Baldi

      • Bacterial pathogens