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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 Bacillus cereus Group Is an Excellent Reservoir of Novel Lanthipeptides [Environmental Microbiology]

    • Applied and Environmental Microbiology

    • Lantibiotics are ribosomally synthesized peptides that contain multiple posttranslational modifications. Research on lantibiotics has increased recently, mainly due to their broad-spectrum antimicrobial activity, especially against some clinical Gram-positive pathogens. Many reports about various bacteriocins in the Bacillus cereus group have been published, but few were about lantibiotics.

  2. Exploring the Diversity of Listeria monocytogenes Biofilm Architecture by High-Throughput Confocal Laser Scanning Microscopy and the Predominance of the Honeycomb-Like Morphotype [Food Microbiology]

    • Applied and Environmental Microbiology

    • Listeria monocytogenes is involved in food-borne illness with a high mortality rate. The persistence of the pathogen along the food chain can be associated with its ability to form biofilms on inert surfaces. While most of the phenotypes associated with biofilms are related to their spatial organization, most published data comparing biofilm formation by L. monocytogenes isolates are based on the quantitative crystal violet assay, which does not give access to structural information.

  3. Clearance of Escherichia coli O157:H7 Infection in Calves by Rectal Administration of Bovine Lactoferrin [Environmental Microbiology]

    • Applied and Environmental Microbiology

    • Enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli (EHEC) strains, of which E. coli O157:H7 is the best-studied serotype, are an important group of foodborne pathogens causing severe illness in humans worldwide. The main reservoirs for EHEC are ruminants, mostly cattle, which harbor the bacteria in their intestinal tracts without showing clinical symptoms.

  4. Identification and regulation of a novel Citrobacter rodentium gut colonization fimbria (Gcf)

    • Journal of Bacteriology

    • The Gram-negative enteric bacterium Citrobacter rodentium is a natural mouse pathogen that has been extensively used as a surrogate model for studying the human pathogens enteropathogenic and enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli. All three pathogens produce similar attaching and effacing (A/E) lesions in the intestinal epithelium. During infection these bacteria employ surface structures called fimbriae to adhere and colonize the host intestinal epithelium. For C.

  5. Antimicrobial activity of açaí against Listeria innocua

    • Food Control

    • Publication date: July 2015
      , Volume 53
      Author(s): Clara Miracle Belda-Galbis , Antonio Jiménez-Carretón , María Consuelo Pina-Pérez , Antonio Martínez , Dolores Rodrigo

  6. Comparative Analysis of Super-Shedder Strains of Escherichia coli O157:H7 Reveals Distinctive Genomic Features and a Strongly Aggregative Adherent Phenotype on Bovine Rectoanal Junction Squamous Epithelial Cells

    • PLOS ONE

    • Rebecca Cote, Robab Katani, Matthew R. Moreau, Indira T. Kudva, Terrance M. Arthur, Chitrita DebRoy, Michael M. Mwangi, Istvan Albert, Juan Antonio Raygoza Garay, Lingling Li, Maria T. Brandl, Michelle Q. Carter, Vivek Kapur

  7. Listeria monocytogenes Exopolysaccharide: Origin, Structure, Biosynthetic Machinery, and c-di-GMP-Dependent Regulation

    • Molecular Microbiology

    • Elevated levels of the second messenger c-di-GMP activate biosynthesis of an unknown exopolysaccharide (EPS) in the food-borne pathogen Listeria monocytogenes. This EPS strongly protects cells against disinfectants and desiccation, indicating its potential significance for listerial persistence in the environment and for food safety.

  8. The outer membrane protease PgtE of Salmonella enterica interferes with the alternative complement pathway by cleaving factors B and H

    • Frontiers in Microbiology

    • Rauna Riva, Timo K. Korhonen and Seppo Meri The virulence factor PgtE is an outer membrane protease (omptin) of the zoonotic pathogen Salmonella enterica that causes diseases ranging from gastroenteritis to severe enteric fever. It is surface exposed in bacteria that have a short-chain, i.e., rough LPS, as observed e.g., in bacteria residing inside macrophages or just emerging from them.

  9. Prevalence, identification and molecular characterization of Cronobacter sakazakii isolated from retail meat products

    • Food Control

    • Publication date: July 2015
      , Volume 53
      Author(s): Mahmoud Ahmed Mohammed , Khalid Ibrahim Sallam , Tomohiro Tamura

  10. High Level Expression of a Novel Family 3 Neutral β-Xylosidase from Humicola insolens Y1 with High Tolerance to D-Xylose

    • PLOS ONE

    • Wei Xia, Pengjun Shi, Xinxin Xu, Lichun Qian, Ying Cui, Mengjuan Xia, Bin Yao

  11. Chitosan combined with calcium chloride impacts fresh-cut honeydew melon by stabilising nanostructures of sodium-carbonate-soluble pectin

    • Food Control

    • Publication date: July 2015
      , Volume 53
      Author(s): Jia Xin Chong , Shaojuan Lai , Hongshun Yang

  12. High frequency of the potential pathogen Lactococcus garvieae in raw milk from Kosovo

    • Food Control

    • Publication date: July 2015
      , Volume 53
      Author(s): Ibrahim Mehmeti , Skender Muji , Dzung B. Diep , Ingolf F. Nes

  13. A survey estimating the benefits of incorporating Listeria specific growth inhibitors in bulk luncheon meats to be sliced in retail delis

    • Food Control

    • Publication date: July 2015
      , Volume 53
      Author(s): Philip G. Crandall , Corliss A. O'Bryan , Robin Peterson , Natalie Dyenson , Frank Yiannas

  14. Risk-based microbiological criteria for Campylobacter in broiler meat: A comparison of two approaches

    • Food Control

    • Publication date: July 2015
      , Volume 53
      Author(s): Maarten Nauta , Jens Kirk Andersen , Pirkko Tuominen , Jukka Ranta , Roland Lindqvist

  15. Presence of mycotoxins in animal milk: A review

    • Food Control

    • Publication date: July 2015
      , Volume 53
      Author(s): Myra Evelyn Flores-Flores , Elena Lizarraga , Adela López de Cerain , Elena González-Peñas

  16. Limited survey of deoxynivalenol in wheat from different crop rotation fields in Yangtze-Huaihe river basin region of China

    • Food Control

    • Publication date: July 2015
      , Volume 53
      Author(s): Jonathan Nimal Selvaraj , Yueju Zhao , Lancine Sangare , Fuguo Xing , Lu Zhou , Yan Wang , Xiaofeng Xue , Yi Li , Yang Liu

  17. Isolation and Functional Characterization of the Novel Clostridium botulinum Neurotoxin A8 Subtype

    • PLOS ONE

    • Skadi Kull, K. Melanie Schulz, Jasmin Weisemann née Strotmeier, Sebastian Kirchner, Tanja Schreiber, Alexander Bollenbach, P. Wojtek Dabrowski, Andreas Nitsche, Suzanne R. Kalb, Martin B. Dorner, John R. Barr, Andreas Rummel, Brigitte G. Dorner

  18. Synergy between thymol, eugenol, berberine, cinnamaldehyde and streptomycin against planktonic and biofilm-associated food-borne pathogens

    • Letters in Applied Microbiology

    • Essential oils have been found to exert antibacterial, antifungal, spasmolytic, and antiplasmodial activity and therapeutic effect in cancer treatment. In this study, the antibacterial activities of four main essential oils’ components (thymol (Thy), eugenol (Eug), berberine (Ber), cinnamaldehyde (Cin)) were evaluated against two foodborne pathogens, Listeria monocytogenes and Salmonella Typhimurium, either alone or in combination with streptomycin.

  19. Combined effect of carvacrol and citral on the growth of Listeria monocytogenes and Listeria innocua and on the occurrence of damaged cells

    • Food Control

    • Publication date: July 2015
      , Volume 53
      Author(s): A.B. Silva-Angulo , S.F. Zanini , A. Rosenthal , D. Rodrigo , G. Klein , A. Martínez

  20. Real time quantitative expression study of a polyketide synthase gene related to ochratoxin a biosynthesis in Aspergillus niger

    • Food Control

    • Publication date: July 2015
      , Volume 53
      Author(s): G. Castellá , L. Alborch , M.R. Bragulat , F.J. Cabañes

  21. HACCP effectiveness between ISO 22000 certified and non-certified dairy companies

    • Food Control

    • Publication date: July 2015
      , Volume 53
      Author(s): Evangelos L. Psomas , Dimitrios P. Kafetzopoulos

  22. High Genotypic and Phenotypic Similarity Among Shiga Toxin–Producing Escherichia coli O111 Environmental and Outbreak Strains

    • Foodborne Pathogens and Disease

    • Foodborne Pathogens and Disease , Vol. 0, No. 0.

  23. Contribution of the hdeB-like Gene (SEN1493) to Survival of Salmonella enterica Enteritidis NalR at pH 2

    • Foodborne Pathogens and Disease

    • Foodborne Pathogens and Disease , Vol. 0, No. 0.

  24. PFGE Standard Operating Procedures for Listeria monocytogenes: Harmonizing the Typing of Food and Clinical Strains in Europe

    • Foodborne Pathogens and Disease

    • Foodborne Pathogens and Disease , Vol. 0, No. 0.

  25. Emergence of β-Lactamases and Extended-Spectrum β-Lactamases (ESBLs) Producing Salmonella in Retail Raw Chicken in China

    • Foodborne Pathogens and Disease

    • Foodborne Pathogens and Disease , Vol. 0, No. 0.