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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. Application of the novel Droplet digital PCR technology for identification of meat species

    • International Journal of Food Science & Technology

    • The authenticity and traceability of meat products are issues of primary importance to ensure food safety. Unfortunately, food adulteration (e.g. the addition of inexpensive cuts to minced meat products) and mislabelling (e.g. the inclusion of meat from species other than those declared) happens frequently worldwide.

  2. Salmonella enterica Requires Lipid Metabolism Genes To Replicate in Proinflammatory Macrophages and Mice

    • Infection and Immunity

    • To survive and replicate during infection, pathogens utilize different carbon and energy sources depending on the nutritional landscape of their host microenvironment. Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium is an intracellular bacterial pathogen that occupies diverse cellular niches. While it is clear that Salmonella Typhimurium requires access to glucose during systemic infection, data on the need for lipid metabolism are mixed.

      • Bacterial pathogens
      • Salmonella

  3. Human Enteric Defensin 5 Promotes Shigella Infection of Macrophages

    • Infection and Immunity

    • Human α-defensins are 3- to 5-kDa disulfide-bridged peptides with a multitude of antimicrobial activities and immunomodulatory functions. Recent studies show that human enteric α-defensin 5 (HD5), a host defense peptide important for intestinal homeostasis and innate immunity, aids the highly infectious enteropathogen Shigella in breaching the intestinal epithelium in vitro and in vivo.

      • Bacterial pathogens
      • Shigella

  4. Salmonella enterica Serovar Typhimurium Uses PbgA/YejM To Regulate Lipopolysaccharide Assembly during Bacteremia

    • Infection and Immunity

    • Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium (S. Typhimurium) relies upon the inner membrane protein PbgA to enhance outer membrane (OM) integrity and promote virulence in mice. The PbgA transmembrane domain (residues 1 to 190) is essential for viability, while the periplasmic domain (residues 191 to 586) is dispensable. Residues within the basic region (residues 191 to 245) bind acidic phosphates on polar phospholipids, like for cardiolipins, and are necessary for salmonella OM integrity. S.

      • Bacterial pathogens
      • Salmonella

  5. A Loss-of-Function Mutation in the Integrin Alpha L (Itgal) Gene Contributes to Susceptibility to Salmonella enterica Serovar Typhimurium Infection in Collaborative Cross Strain CC042

    • Infection and Immunity

    • Salmonella is an intracellular bacterium found in the gastrointestinal tract of mammalian, avian, and reptilian hosts. Mouse models have been extensively used to model in vivo distinct aspects of human Salmonella infections and have led to the identification of several host susceptibility genes. We have investigated the susceptibility of Collaborative Cross strains to intravenous infection with Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium as a model of human systemic invasive infection.

      • Bacterial pathogens
      • Salmonella

  6. Transcriptional and Pathological Host Responses to Coinfection with Virulent or Attenuated Mycoplasma gallisepticum and Low-Pathogenic Avian Influenza A Virus in Chickens

    • Infection and Immunity

    • The avian pathogen Mycoplasma gallisepticum, the etiological agent of chronic respiratory disease in chickens, exhibits enhanced pathogenesis in the presence of a copathogen such as low-pathogenic avian influenza virus (LPAIV). To further investigate the intricacies of this copathogenesis, chickens were monoinfected or coinfected with either virulent M.

      • Viruses

  7. Mutation of the Transcriptional Regulator YtoI Rescues Listeria monocytogenes Mutants Deficient in the Essential Shared Metabolite 1,4-Dihydroxy-2-Naphthoate (DHNA)

    • Infection and Immunity

    • Listeria monocytogenes, a Gram-positive, facultative intracellular pathogen, survives and replicates in the cytosol of host cells. Synthesis of 1,4-dihydroxy-2-naphthoate (DHNA), an intermediate of menaquinone biosynthesis, is essential for cytosolic survival of L. monocytogenes independent from its role in respiration. Here, we demonstrate that DHNA is essential for virulence in a murine model of listeriosis due to both respiration-dependent and -independent functions.

      • Bacterial pathogens
      • Listeria monocytogenes

  8. Plasma-activated water as an alternative nitrite source for the curing of beef jerky: Influence on quality and inactivation of Listeria innocua

    • Innovative Food Science & Emerging Technologies

    • Author(s): Elena S. Inguglia, Márcia Oliveira, Catherine M. Burgess, Joe P. Kerry, Brijesh K. Tiwari

      • Bacterial pathogens

  9. Antimicrobial effects and membrane damage mechanism of blueberry (Vaccinium corymbosum L.) extract against Vibrio parahaemolyticus

    • Food Control

    • Author(s): Xiao-hong Sun, Li-ran Hao, Qing-chao Xie, Wei-qing Lan, Yong Zhao, Ying-jie Pan, Vivian C.H. Wu

      • Bacterial pathogens
      • Vibrio

  10. Development of a high-efficient concentrated pretreatment method for noroviruses detection in independent oysters:An extension of the ISO/TS 15216-2:2013 standard method

    • Food Control

    • Author(s): Le Zhang, Liang Xue, Junshan Gao, Weicheng Cai, Yueting Jiang, Yueting Zuo, Yingyin Liao, Zhiwei Qin, Haoming Wu, Tong Cheng, Xueting Luo, Qingping Wu, Kegang Wu, Jumei Zhang

      • Viruses
      • Norovirus

  11. Development of a pasteurization method based on radio frequency heating to ensure microbiological safety of liquid egg

    • Food Control

    • Author(s): Jinyu Zhu, Daofeng Zhang, Xiujuan Zhou, Yan Cui, Shunshan Jiao, Xianming Shi

      • Bacterial pathogens
      • Salmonella

  12. Chlorous acid is a more potent antibacterial agent than sodium hypochlorite against Campylobacter

    • Food Control

    • Author(s): Noritoshi Hatanaka, Sharda Prasad Awasthi, Hisataka Goda, Hiroyuki Kawata, Yuzuru Uchino, Takahiro Kubo, Shigeru Aoki, Atsushi Hinenoya, Shinji Yamasaki

      • Bacterial pathogens
      • Campylobacter

  13. Occurrence of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in youtiao and exposure assessment from Shandong Province, China

    • Food Control

    • Author(s): Xiaolin Wang, Shufan Wang, Fenghua Li, Renpeng Li, Jing Zhu, Jindong Chen, Wei Li, Dafeng Jiang

      • Chemical contaminants

  14. Camel milk whey hydrolysate inhibits growth and biofilm formation of Pseudomonas aeruginosa PAO1 and methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus

    • Food Control

    • Author(s): Mahmoud Abdel-Hamid, Ehab Romeih, Paola Saporito, Ali Osman, Ramona Valentina Mateiu, Biljana Mojsoska, Håvard Jenssen

      • Staphylococcus aureus
      • Bacterial pathogens

  15. Occurrence of aflatoxin M1 in raw, pasteurized, UHT cows’ milk, and dairy products in Lebanon

    • Food Control

    • Author(s): Rouaa Daou, Charbel Afif, Karine Joubrane, Lydia rabbaa Khabbaz, Richard Maroun, Ali Ismail, André el Khoury

      • Aflatoxins
      • Natural toxins

  16. Norovirus contamination of sea urchins (Paracentrotus lividus): Potential food risk for consumers

    • Food Control

    • Author(s): Nânci Santos-Ferreira, João Rodrigo Mesquita, Enrique Rivadulla, Ângela S. Inácio, Maria São José Nascimento, Jesus Romalde, Paulo Martins da Costa

      • Hepatitis
      • Bacterial pathogens
      • Viruses
      • Norovirus
      • Salmonella

  17. Optimization deep eutectic solvent-based ultrasound-assisted liquid-liquid microextraction by using the desirability function approach for extraction and preconcentration of organophosphorus pesticides from fruit juice samples

    • Journal of Food Composition and Analysis

    • Author(s): Hassan Heidari, Samira Ghanbari-Rad, Esmaeil Habibi

      • Pesticide residues
      • Chemical contaminants

  18. Carnobacterium maltaromaticum as bioprotective culture in vitro and in cooked ham

    • Meat Science

    • Author(s): Gabriela Maia Danielski, Pedro Henrique Imazaki, Caroline Maria de Andrade Cavalari, Georges Daube, Antoine Clinquart, Renata Ernlund Freitas de Macedo

      • Bacterial pathogens
      • Listeria monocytogenes
      • Salmonella

  19. Effects of soaking, acidity and temperature on cadmium and lead removal from rice

    • Food Chemistry

    • Author(s): Maha Al-Naimi, Mohammad A. Al-Ghouti

      • Heavy Metals
      • Chemical contaminants

  20. Assessment of chitosan biopolymer encapsulated α-Terpineol against fungal, aflatoxin B1 (AFB1) and free radicals mediated deterioration of stored maize and possible mode of action

    • Food Chemistry

    • Author(s): Anand Kumar Chaudhari, Akanksha Singh, Vipin Kumar Singh, Abhishek Kumar Dwivedy, Somenath Das, Mayondi Grace Ramsdam, Mumtaz S Dkhar, Highland Kayang, Nawal Kishore Dubey

      • Aflatoxins
      • Natural toxins

  21. Control of aflatoxin M1 in milk by novel methods: A review

    • Food Chemistry

    • Author(s): Thu Nguyen, Steve Flint, Jon Palmer

      • Aflatoxins
      • Natural toxins

  22. High prevalence of mcr-1 encoding colistin resistance and first identification of blaCTX-M-55 in ESBL/CMY-2-producing Escherichia coli isolated from chicken faeces and retail meat in Tunisia

    • International Journal of Food Microbiology

    • Author(s): Bilel Hassen, Mohamed Salah Abbassi, Laura Ruiz-Ripa, Olouwafemi M. Mama, Abdennaceur Hassen, Carmen Torres, Salah Hammami

      • Bacterial pathogens

  23. Identifying geographic origins of the Escherichia coli isolates from food by a method based on single-nucleotide polymorphisms

    • Journal of Microbiological Methods

    • Author(s): Weili Liu, Hong Zhao, Zhigang Qiu, Min Jin, Dong Yang, Qunying Xu, Hua Feng, Junwen Li, Zhiqiang Shen

      Abstract
      Background

      E.coli is an important foodborne pathogen. Rapid and robust tracking of the source of E. coli is the key step to control foodborne infections.

      • Bacterial pathogens

  24. Microbial pathogen removal from domestic effluent using coral sand in Kiribati

    • Journal of Applied Microbiology

    • Aim Infiltration experiments aimed to show the effectivity of coral sand to remove microorganisms in septic tank wastewater treatment system, in South Tarawa, Kiribati. Methods and Results Laboratory experiments evaluated effective microbial removal properties of a packed bed of coral beach sand conditioned with domestic effluent.

      • Bacterial pathogens
      • Viruses
      • Norovirus

  25. Preliminary study on the relationship between aflatoxin-bovine serum albumin adducts in blood and aflatoxin M1 levels in milk of dairy cows

    • Mycotoxin Research

    • The aflatoxin (AF) albumin adduct is often used as a biomarker for aflatoxin exposure in humans. An ELISA method previously used for aflatoxin serum albumin in human blood was used to analyse bovine serum samples (n = 22) collected from dairy cattle during an aflatoxin mitigation study in Kenya. Albumin adduct data were compared with aflatoxin M1 (AFM1) levels in corresponding milk samples from these cows.

      • Aflatoxins
      • Natural toxins