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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. Impact of Seasonal Hypoxia on Activity and Community Structure of Chemolithoautotrophic Bacteria in a Coastal Sediment [Environmental Microbiology]

    • Applied and Environmental Microbiology

    • Seasonal hypoxia in coastal systems drastically changes the availability of electron acceptors in bottom water, which alters the sedimentary reoxidation of reduced compounds. However, the effect of seasonal hypoxia on the chemolithoautotrophic community that catalyzes these reoxidation reactions is rarely studied.

      • Campylobacter
      • Bacterial pathogens

  2. Adaptation of Salmonella enterica Serovar Senftenberg to Linalool and Its Association with Antibiotic Resistance and Environmental Persistence [Public and Environmental Health Microbiology]

    • Applied and Environmental Microbiology

    • A clinical isolate of Salmonella enterica serovar Senftenberg, isolated from an outbreak linked to the herb Ocimum basilicum L. (basil), has been shown to be resistant to basil oil and to the terpene alcohol linalool.

      • Salmonella
      • Bacterial pathogens

  3. Simultaneous Decolorization and Biohydrogen Production from Xylose by Klebsiella oxytoca GS-4-08 in the Presence of Azo Dyes with Sulfonate and Carboxyl Groups [Biodegradation]

    • Applied and Environmental Microbiology

    • Biohydrogen production from the pulp and paper effluent containing rich lignocellulosic material could be achieved by the fermentation process. Xylose, an important hemicellulose hydrolysis product, is used less efficiently as a substrate for biohydrogen production. Moreover, azo dyes are usually added to fabricate anticounterfeiting paper, which further increases the complexity of wastewater.

      • Bacterial pathogens

  4. Molecular Viability Testing of UV-Inactivated Bacteria [Public and Environmental Health Microbiology]

    • Applied and Environmental Microbiology

    • PCR is effective in detecting bacterial DNA in samples, but it is unable to differentiate viable bacteria from inactivated cells or free DNA fragments. New PCR-based analytical strategies have been developed to address this limitation. Molecular viability testing (MVT) correlates bacterial viability with the ability to rapidly synthesize species-specific rRNA precursors (pre-rRNA) in response to brief nutritional stimulation.

      • Bacterial pathogens

  5. An Amoebal Grazer of Cyanobacteria Requires Cobalamin Produced by Heterotrophic Bacteria [Microbial Ecology]

    • Applied and Environmental Microbiology

    • Amoebae are unicellular eukaryotes that consume microbial prey through phagocytosis, playing a role in shaping microbial food webs. Many amoebal species can be cultivated axenically in rich media or monoxenically with a single bacterial prey species. Here, we characterize heterolobosean amoeba LPG3, a recent natural isolate, which is unable to grow on unicellular cyanobacteria, its primary food source, in the absence of a heterotrophic bacterium, a Pseudomonas species coisolate.

      • Vibrio
      • Bacterial pathogens

  6. Lethal and Sublethal Effect of a Dielectric Barrier Discharge Atmospheric Cold Plasma on Staphylococcus aureus

    • Journal of Food Protection

    • Journal of Food Protection, Volume 80, Issue 6, Page 928-932, June 2017.

      • Staphylococcus aureus
      • Bacterial pathogens

  7. Effect of Water Activity on the Thermal Tolerance and Survival of Salmonella enterica Serovars Tennessee and Senftenberg in Goat's Milk Caramel

    • Journal of Food Protection

    • Journal of Food Protection, Volume 80, Issue 6, Page 922-927, June 2017.

      • Bacterial pathogens

  8. Comparison of Growth and the Cytokines Induced by Pathogenic Yersinia enterocolitica Bio-Serotypes 3/O: 3 and 2/O: 9

    • Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology

    • Haoshu Yang, Wenpeng Gu, Haiyan Qiu, Guixiang Sun, Junrong Liang, Kewei Li, Yuchun Xiao, Ran Duan, Huaiqi Jing, Xin Wang

      • Yersinia
      • Bacterial pathogens

  9. Effects of ambient exposure, refrigeration, and icing on Vibrio vulnificus and Vibrio parahaemolyticus abundances in oysters

    • International Journal of Food Microbiology

    • Publication date: Available online 27 April 2017


      Author(s): J.L. Jones, K.A. Lydon, T.P. Kinsey, B. Friedman, M. Curtis, R. Schuster, J.C. Bowers

      • Vibrio
      • Bacterial pathogens

  10. Supercritical fluid extracts of Moringa oleifera and their unsaturated fatty acid components inhibit biofilm formation by Staphylococcus aureus

    • Food Control

    • Publication date: October 2017
      , Volume 80

      Author(s): Jin-Hyung Lee, Yong-Guy Kim, Jae Gyu Park, Jintae Lee

      • Staphylococcus aureus
      • Bacterial pathogens

  11. Antimicrobial Effects of Quillaja saponaria Extract Against Escherichia coli O157:H7 and the Emerging Non-O157 Shiga Toxin-Producing E. coli

    • Journal of Food Science

    • Abstract

      • Escherichia coli O157:H7
      • Bacterial pathogens

  12. Genetic and environmental factors influence Listeria monocytogenes nisin resistance

    • Journal of Applied Microbiology

    • Abstract

      Aims

      Listeria monocytogenes nisin resistance increases when first exposed to NaCl and other stresses, such as low pH. In addition to environmental stressors, specific genomic elements can confer nisin resistance, such as the stress survival islet (SSI-1). As SSI-1 is variably present among L. monocytogenes strains, we wanted to determine if SSI-1 was associated with salt-induced nisin resistance.

      • Listeria monocytogenes
      • Bacterial pathogens

  13. Persistence of Salmonella Typhimurium LT2 in Soil Enhanced after Growth in Lettuce Medium

    • Frontiers in Microbiology

    • Eva Fornefeld, Jasper Schierstaedt, Sven Jechalke, Rita Grosch, Adam Schikora, Kornelia Smalla

      • Bacterial pathogens

  14. Subtyping of Canadian isolates of Salmonella Enteritidis using Multiple Locus Variable Number Tandem Repeat Analysis (MLVA) alone and in combination with Pulsed-Field Gel Electrophoresis (PFGE) and phage typing

    • Journal of Microbiological Methods

    • Publication date: Available online 26 April 2017


      Author(s): Kim Ziebell, Linda Chui, Robin King, Suzanne Johnson, Patrick Boerlin, Roger P. Johnson

      • Salmonella
      • Bacterial pathogens

  15. Comparative Proteomics Reveals Differences in Host-Pathogen Interaction between Infectious and Commensal Relationship with Campylobacter jejuni

    • Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology

    • Nieves Ayllón, Ángeles Jiménez-Marín, Héctor Argüello, Sara Zaldívar-López, Margarita Villar, Carmen Aguilar, Angela Moreno, José De La Fuente, Juan J. Garrido

      • Bacterial pathogens
      • Campylobacter

  16. Comparison of the Expression Changes after Botulinum Toxin Type A and Minocycline Administration in Lipopolysaccharide-Stimulated Rat Microglial and Astroglial Cultures

    • Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology

    • Anna Piotrowska, Katarzyna Popiolek-Barczyk, Flaminia Pavone, Joanna Mika Botulinum neurotoxin type A (BoNT/A) and minocycline are potent drugs used in clinical therapies. The primary molecular mechanism of BoNT/A is the cleavage of SNARE proteins, which prevents cells from releasing neurotransmitters from vesicles, while the effects of minocycline are related to the inhibition of p38 activation.

      • Clostridium botulinum
      • Bacterial pathogens

  17. The antibiotic activity and mechanisms of sugar beet (Beta vulgaris) molasses polyphenols against selected food-borne pathogens

    • LWT

    • Publication date: 1 September 2017
      Source:LWT - Food Science and Technology, Volume 82

      Author(s): Mingshun Chen, Zhengang Zhao, Hecheng Meng, Shujuan Yu

      • Bacterial pathogens
      • Listeria monocytogenes
      • Staphylococcus aureus

  18. Citric acid as alternative to sodium hypochlorite for washing and disinfection of experimentally-infected spinach leaves

    • LWT

    • Publication date: 1 September 2017
      Source:LWT - Food Science and Technology, Volume 82

      Author(s): G. Finten, M.V. Agüero, R.J. Jagus

      • Bacterial pathogens

  19. Prediction of the antibacterial activity of garlic extract on E. coli, S. aureus and B. subtilis by determining the diameter of the inhibition zones using artificial neural networks

    • LWT

    • Publication date: 1 September 2017
      Source:LWT - Food Science and Technology, Volume 82

      Author(s): Djamel Atsamnia, Mabrouk Hamadache, Salah Hanini, Othmane Benkortbi, Dahmane Oukrif

      • Bacterial pathogens
      • Staphylococcus aureus

  20. Quantitative analysis of Campylobacter spp. contamination in chicken slaughtering lines by “label tracking method” in eastern China

    • Food Control

    • Publication date: October 2017
      , Volume 80

      Author(s): Jinlin Huang, Xiaoqi Zang, Weihua Zhai, Chunai Guan, Tianyao Lei, Xinan Jiao

      • Bacterial pathogens
      • Campylobacter

  21. Isolation and characterization of bacteriocin-producing Pediococcus acidilactici HW01 from malt and its potential to control beer spoilage lactic acid bacteria

    • Food Control

    • Publication date: October 2017
      , Volume 80

      Author(s): Hyunwoo Ahn, Jinseon Kim, Wang June Kim

      • Bacterial pathogens
      • Listeria monocytogenes
      • Staphylococcus aureus

  22. Headspace oxygen as a hurdle to improve the safety of in-pack pasteurized chilled food during storage at different temperatures

    • International Journal of Food Microbiology

    • Publication date: Available online 26 April 2017


      Author(s): Nydia Munoz, Kanishka Bhunia, Hongchao Zhang, Gustavo V. Barbosa-Cánovas, Juming Tang, Shyam Sablani

      • Bacterial pathogens

  23. Antimicrobial activity of free and liposome-encapsulated thymol and carvacrol against Salmonella and Staphylococcus aureus adhered to stainless steel

    • International Journal of Food Microbiology

    • Publication date: 3 July 2017
      , Volume 252

      Author(s): Juliana Both Engel, Caroline Heckler, Eduardo Cesar Tondo, Daniel Joner Daroit, Patrícia da Silva Malheiros

      • Bacterial pathogens
      • Salmonella
      • Staphylococcus aureus

  24. Modelling the effect of combined antimicrobials: A base model for multiple-hurdles

    • International Journal of Food Microbiology

    • Publication date: 3 July 2017
      , Volume 252

      Author(s): M. Anastasiadi, R.J.W. Lambert

      • Bacterial pathogens
      • Cronobacter

  25. Two complementary approaches to quantify variability in heat resistance of spores of Bacillus subtilis

    • International Journal of Food Microbiology

    • Publication date: Available online 26 April 2017 Author(s): Heidy M.W. den Besten, Erwin M. Berendsen, Marjon H.J. Wells-Bennik, Han Straatsma, Marcel H. Zwietering Realistic prediction of microbial inactivation in food requires quantitative information on variability introduced by the microorganisms. Bacillus subtilis forms heat resistant spores and in this study the impact of strain variability on spore heat resistance was quantified using 20 strains.

      • Bacterial pathogens
      • Listeria monocytogenes