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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. Synergistic hydrolysis of xylan using novel xylanases, β-xylosidases, and an α- l -arabinofuranosidase from Geobacillus thermodenitrificans NG80-2

    • Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology

    • Abstract

      • Chemical contaminants

  2. Characterization of NDM-5-positive extensively resistant Escherichia coli isolates from dairy cows

    • Veterinary Microbiology

    • Publication date: Available online 13 June 2017


      Author(s): Tao He, Ruicheng Wei, Lili Zhang, Lichang Sun, Maoda Pang, Ran Wang, Yang Wang

      • Bacterial pathogens

  3. Patterns of antimicrobial resistance in Streptococcus suis isolates from pigs with or without streptococcal disease in England between 2009 and 2014

    • Veterinary Microbiology

    • Publication date: Available online 13 June 2017


      Author(s): Juan Hernandez-Garcia, Jinhong Wang, Olivier Restif, Mark A. Holmes, Alison E. Mather, Lucy A. Weinert, Thomas M. Wileman, Jill R. Thomson, Paul R. Langford, Brendan W. Wren, Andrew Rycroft, Duncan J. Maskell, Alexander W. Tucker

  4. Detection and prevalence of protozoan parasites in ready-to-eat packaged salads on sale in Italy

    • Food Microbiology

    • Publication date: October 2017
      , Volume 67

      Author(s): Tiziana Caradonna, Marianna Marangi, Federica Del Chierico, Nicola Ferrari, Sofia Reddel, Giorgia Bracaglia, Giovanni Normanno, Lorenza Putignani, Annunziata Giangaspero

      • Toxoplasma gondii
      • Giardia lamblia
      • Cryptosporidium parvum
      • Cyclospora cayetanensis
      • Parasites

  5. Shifting brucellosis risk in livestock coincides with spreading seroprevalence in elk

    • PLOS ONE

    • Angela Brennan, Paul C. Cross, Katie Portacci, Brandon M. Scurlock, William H. Edwards

      • Bacterial pathogens

  6. Deciphering the landscape of host barriers to Listeria monocytogenes infection [Microbiology]

    • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

    • Listeria monocytogenes is a common food-borne pathogen that can disseminate from the intestine and infect multiple organs. Here, we used sequence tag-based analysis of microbial populations (STAMP) to investigate L. monocytogenes population dynamics during infection. We created a genetically barcoded library of murinized L. monocytogenes and then used deep sequencing...

      • Listeria monocytogenes
      • Bacterial pathogens

  7. Spatio-temporal variability in the fatty acid profile of the adductor muscle of the common cockle Cerastoderma edule and its relevance for tracing geographic origin

    • Food Control

    • Publication date: November 2017
      , Volume 81

      Author(s): Fernando Ricardo, Elisabete Maciel, M. Rosário Domingues, Ricardo Calado

  8. Erythritol Availability in Bovine, Murine and Human Models Highlights a Potential Role for the Host Aldose Reductase during Brucella Infection

    • Frontiers in Microbiology

    • Thibault Barbier, Arnaud Machelart, Amaia Zúñiga-Ripa, Hubert Plovier, Charlotte Hougardy, Elodie Lobet, Kevin Willemart, Eric Muraille, Xavier De Bolle, Emile Van Schaftingen, Ignacio Moriyón, Jean-Jacques Letesson

      • Bacterial pathogens

  9. Prevalence and Antimicrobial Susceptibility of Vibrio parahaemolyticus Isolated from Short Mackerels (Rastrelliger brachysoma) in Malaysia

    • Frontiers in Microbiology

    • Chia W. Tan, Tan T. H. Malcolm, Chee H. Kuan, Tze Y. Thung, Wei S. Chang, Yuet Y. Loo, Jayasekara M. K. J. K. Premarathne, Othman B. Ramzi, Mohd F. S. Norshafawatie, Nordin Yusralimuna, Yaya Rukayadi, Yoshitsugu Nakaguchi, Mitsuaki Nishibuchi, Son Radu

      • Vibrio
      • Bacterial pathogens

  10. Original XPCTM Effect on Salmonella Typhimurium and Cecal Microbiota from Three Different Ages of Broiler Chickens When Incubated in an Anaerobic In Vitro Culture System

    • Frontiers in Microbiology

    • Si Hong Park, Sun Ae Kim, Sang In Lee, Peter M. Rubinelli, Stephanie M. Roto, Hilary O. Pavlidis, Donald R. McIntyre, Steven C. Ricke

      • Bacterial pathogens

  11. Autoinducer-2 Quorum Sensing Influences Viability of Escherichia coli O157:H7 under Osmotic and In Vitro Gastrointestinal Stress Conditions

    • Frontiers in Microbiology

    • Hyunjoon Park, Kyuyeon Lee, Soyoung Yeo, Heuynkil Shin, Wilhelm H. Holzapfel

      • Escherichia coli O157:H7
      • Bacterial pathogens

  12. Distribution of norovirus genotypes and subtypes in river water by ultra-deep sequencing-based analysis

    • Letters in Applied Microbiology

    • Abstract

      • Norovirus
      • Viruses

  13. Landmarks in the historical development of twenty first century food processing technologies

    • Food Research International

    • Publication date: July 2017
      , Volume 97

      Author(s): N.N. Misra, Mohamed Koubaa, Shahin Roohinejad, Pablo Juliano, Hami Alpas, Rita S. Inácio, Jorge A. Saraiva, Francisco J. Barba

  14. Anaerobic cysteine degradation and potential metabolic coordination in Salmonella enterica and Escherichia coli

    • Journal of Bacteriology

    • Salmonella enterica has two CutR-activated enzymes that degrade cysteine: the aerobic CdsH and an unidentified anaerobic enzyme; E. coli only has the latter. To identify the anaerobic enzyme, transcript profiling was performed from E. coli without cutR and with overexpressed cutR. 37 genes showed at least a five-fold change in expression, and the cutPA (formerly yhaOM) operon had the greatest differential.

      • Salmonella
      • Bacterial pathogens

  15. The two-component signal transduction system VxrAB positively regulates Vibrio cholerae biofilm formation

    • Journal of Bacteriology

    • Two-component signal transduction systems (TCSs), typically composed of a sensor histidine kinase (HK) and a response regulator (RR), are the primary mechanism by which pathogenic bacteria sense and respond to extracellular signals. The pathogenic bacterium Vibrio cholerae is no exception and encodes for 52 RR genes. Using in frame deletion mutants of each RR gene, we performed a systematic analysis of their role in V. cholerae biofilm formation.

      • Vibrio
      • Bacterial pathogens

  16. Mechanisms of pyocyanin toxicity and genetic determinants of resistance in Staphylococcus aureus

    • Journal of Bacteriology

    • Pseudomonas aeruginosa and Staphylococcus aureus are commonly isolated from polymicrobial infections, such as wound infections and chronic respiratory infections of persons with cystic fibrosis. Despite their co-isolation, P. aeruginosa produces substances toxic to S. aureus, including pyocyanin, a blue pigmented molecule that functions in P. aeruginosa virulence. Pyocyanin inhibits S.

      • Staphylococcus aureus
      • Bacterial pathogens

  17. Rapid detection of Salmonella with Recombinase Aided Amplification

    • Journal of Microbiological Methods

    • Publication date: Available online 12 June 2017


      Author(s): Xiaoping Zhang, Lichuan Guo, Ranran Ma, Lijuan Cong, Zhonghua Wu, Ying Wei, Shijie Xue, Wei Zheng, Saijun Tang

      • Salmonella
      • Bacterial pathogens

  18. How the study of Listeria monocytogenes has led to new concepts in biology

    • Future Microbiology

    • The opportunistic intracellular bacterial pathogen Listeria monocytogenes has in 30 years emerged as an exceptional bacterial model system in infection biology. Research on this bacterium has provided considerable insight into how pathogenic bacteria adapt to mammalian hosts, invade eukaryotic cells, move intracellularly, interfere with host cell functions and disseminate within tissues.

      • Listeria monocytogenes
      • Bacterial pathogens

  19. Irrigation Water Sources and Time Intervals as Variables on the Presence of Campylobacter spp. and Listeria monocytogenes on Romaine Lettuce Grown in Muck Soil

    • Journal of Food Protection

    • Journal of Food Protection, Volume 80, Issue 7, Page 1182-1187, July 2017.

      • Campylobacter
      • Listeria monocytogenes
      • Bacterial pathogens

  20. Predicting and Modelling the Growth of Potentially Pathogenic Bacteria in Coalho Cheese

    • Journal of Food Protection

    • Journal of Food Protection, Volume 80, Issue 7, Page 1172-1181, July 2017.

  21. Evaluation of Trace Elements in Potatoes (Solanum tuberosum) from a Suburban Area of Naples, Italy: The “Triangle of Death”

    • Journal of Food Protection

    • Journal of Food Protection, Volume 80, Issue 7, Page 1167-1171, July 2017.

  22. Meat Safety: An Evaluation of Portuguese Butcher Shops

    • Journal of Food Protection

    • Journal of Food Protection, Volume 80, Issue 7, Page 1159-1166, July 2017.

  23. Importance of Campylobacter jejuni FliS and FliW in Flagella Biogenesis and Flagellin Secretion

    • Frontiers in Microbiology

    • Katarzyna A. Radomska, Marc M. S. M. Wösten, Soledad R. Ordoñez, Jaap A. Wagenaar, Jos P. M. van Putten

      • Campylobacter
      • Bacterial pathogens

  24. Toxins, Vol. 9, Pages 189: Presence of Enniatins and Beauvericin in Romanian Wheat Samples: From Raw Material to Products for Direct Human Consumption

    • Toxins

    • In this study, a total of 244 wheat and wheat-based products collected from Romania were analyzed by liquid chromatography tandem mass spectrometry (LC-MS/MS) in order to evaluate the presence of four enniatins (ENs; i.e., ENA, ENA1, ENB, and ENB1) and beauvericin (BEA).

  25. Toxins, Vol. 9, Pages 190: Prevalence, Variability and Bioconcentration of Saxitoxin-Group in Different Marine Species Present in the Food Chain

    • Toxins

    • The saxitoxin-group (STX-group) corresponds to toxic metabolites produced by cyanobacteria and dinoflagellates of the genera Alexandrium, Gymnodinium, and Pyrodinium. Over the last decade, it has been possible to extrapolate the areas contaminated with the STX-group worldwide, including Chile, a phenomenon that has affected ≈35% of the Southern Pacific coast territory, generating a high economic impact.

      • Shellfish toxins