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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. Effect of sub-inhibitory concentrations of biocides on the architecture and viability of MRSA biofilms

    • Food Microbiology

    • Publication date: August 2017
      , Volume 65

      Author(s): Laura Buzón-Durán, Carlos Alonso-Calleja, Félix Riesco-Peláez, Rosa Capita

      • Staphylococcus aureus
      • Bacterial pathogens

  2. Spatial molecular epidemiology of carbapenem resistant and New Delhi Metallo Beta-lactamase (blaNDM) producing Escherichia coli strains from farmed piglets of India

    • Journal of Applied Microbiology

    • Abstract

      Aim

      A cross-sectional study was conducted in ten government organized pig farms between 2014 and 2016 representing seven states of India to understand the epidemiology of carbapenem resistance in Escherichia coli isolates.

      • Bacterial pathogens

  3. Survival of Listeria monocytogenes strains in ultra-filtered white cheese: Effect of Lactobacillus plantarum and incubation period

    • Journal of Food Processing and Preservation

      • Listeria monocytogenes
      • Bacterial pathogens

  4. Is Follow-Up Testing with the FilmArray Gastrointestinal Multiplex PCR Panel Necessary? [Bacteriology]

    • Journal of Clinical Microbiology

    • The FilmArray gastrointestinal (GI) panel (BioFire Diagnostics, Salt Lake City, UT) is a simple, sample-to-answer, on-demand, multiplex, nucleic acid amplification test for syndromic diagnosis of infectious gastroenteritis. The aim of this study was to measure the yield of follow-up testing with FilmArray GI panel within 4 weeks of an initial test. Consecutive adult and pediatric patients tested at an academic institution between August 2015 and June 2016 were included in this study.

      • Bacterial pathogens

  5. Biocontrol of the internalization of Salmonella enterica and Enterohaemorrhagic Escherichia coli in mung bean sprouts with an endophytic Bacillus subtilis

    • International Journal of Food Microbiology

    • Publication date: Available online 24 March 2017


      Author(s): Zhenyu Shen, Azlin Mustapha, Mengshi Lin, Guolu Zheng

      • Listeria monocytogenes
      • Salmonella
      • Staphylococcus aureus
      • Bacterial pathogens

  6. Nuggets of Wisdom: Salmonella Enteritidis Outbreaks and the Case for New Rules on Uncooked Frozen Processed Chicken

    • Journal of Food Protection

    • Journal of Food Protection, Volume 80, Issue 4, Page 703-709, April 2017.

      • Bacterial pathogens

  7. How Do the Virulence Factors of Shigella Work Together to Cause Disease?

    • Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology

    • Emily Mattock, Ariel J. Blocker

      • Shigella
      • Bacterial pathogens

  8. Macrophage origin limits functional plasticity in helminth-bacterial co-infection

    • PLOS Pathogens

    • Dominik Rückerl, Sharon M. Campbell, Sheelagh Duncan, Tara E. Sutherland, Stephen J. Jenkins, James P. Hewitson, Tom A. Barr, Lucy H. Jackson-Jones, Rick M. Maizels, Judith E. Allen

      • Bacterial pathogens

  9. Distinct Roles of the Antiapoptotic Effectors NleB and NleF from Enteropathogenic Escherichia coli [Cellular Microbiology: Pathogen-Host Cell Molecular Interactions]

    • Infection and Immunity

    • During infection, enteropathogenic Escherichia coli (EPEC) translocates effector proteins directly into the cytosol of infected enterocytes using a type III secretion system (T3SS). Once inside the host cell, these effector proteins subvert various immune signaling pathways, including death receptor-induced apoptosis. One such effector protein is the non-locus of enterocyte effacement (LEE)-encoded effector NleB1, which inhibits extrinsic apoptotic signaling via the FAS death receptor.

      • Bacterial pathogens

  10. Salmonella enterica Serovar Typhi Lipopolysaccharide O-Antigen Modification Impact on Serum Resistance and Antibody Recognition [Cellular Microbiology: Pathogen-Host Cell Molecular Interactions]

    • Infection and Immunity

    • Salmonella enterica serovar Typhi is a human-restricted Gram-negative bacterial pathogen responsible for causing an estimated 27 million cases of typhoid fever annually, leading to 217,000 deaths, and current vaccines do not offer full protection. The O-antigen side chain of the lipopolysaccharide is an immunodominant antigen, can define host-pathogen interactions, and is under consideration as a vaccine target for some Gram-negative species.

      • Salmonella
      • Bacterial pathogens

  11. Cellular Uptake of Clostridium botulinum C2 Toxin Requires Acid Sphingomyelinase Activity [Cellular Microbiology: Pathogen-Host Cell Molecular Interactions]

    • Infection and Immunity

    • Clostridium botulinum C2 toxin consists of an enzyme component (C2I) and a binding component (C2II). Activated C2II (C2IIa) binds to a cell receptor, giving rise to lipid raft-dependent oligomerization, and it then assembles with C2I. The whole toxin complex is then endocytosed into the cytosol, resulting in the destruction of the actin cytoskeleton and cell rounding. Here, we showed that C2 toxin requires acid sphingomyelinase (ASMase) activity during internalization.

      • Clostridium botulinum
      • Bacterial pathogens

  12. OxyR2 Modulates OxyR1 Activity and Vibrio cholerae Oxidative Stress Response [Molecular Pathogenesis]

    • Infection and Immunity

    • Bacteria have developed capacities to deal with different stresses and adapt to different environmental niches. The human pathogen Vibrio cholerae, the causative agent of the severe diarrheal disease cholera, utilizes the transcriptional regulator OxyR to activate genes related to oxidative stress resistance, including peroxiredoxin PrxA, in response to hydrogen peroxide. In this study, we identified another OxyR homolog in V.

      • Vibrio
      • Bacterial pathogens

  13. The Tat Substrate SufI Is Critical for the Ability of Yersinia pseudotuberculosis To Cause Systemic Infection [Bacterial Infections]

    • Infection and Immunity

    • The twin arginine translocation (Tat) system targets folded proteins across the inner membrane and is crucial for virulence in many important human-pathogenic bacteria. Tat has been shown to be required for the virulence of Yersinia pseudotuberculosis, and we recently showed that the system is critical for different virulence-related stress responses as well as for iron uptake. In this study, we wanted to address the role of the Tat substrates in in vivo virulence.

      • Yersinia
      • Bacterial pathogens

  14. Publisher's Expression of Concern: Lactobacillus bulgaricus Prevents Intestinal Epithelial Cell Injury Caused by Enterobacter sakazakii-Induced Nitric Oxide both In Vitro and in the Newborn Rat Model of Necrotizing Enterocolitis [Expression Of Concern]

    • Infection and Immunity
      • Cronobacter
      • Bacterial pathogens

  15. Membrane fatty acid composition as a determinant of Listeria monocytogenes sensitivity to trans-cinnamaldehyde

    • Research in Microbiology

    • Publication date: Available online 23 March 2017
      Source:

      Author(s): Gil Rogiers, Biniam T. Kebede, Ann Van Loey, Chris W. Michiels

      • Listeria monocytogenes
      • Bacterial pathogens

  16. Antimicrobial medium- and long-chain free fatty acids prevent PrfA-dependent activation of virulence genes in Listeria monocytogenes

    • Research in Microbiology

    • Publication date: Available online 23 March 2017
      Source:

      Author(s): Eva Maria Sternkopf Lillebæk, Stine Lambert Nielsen, Rikke Scheel Thomasen, Nils J. Færgeman, Birgitte H. Kallipolitis

      • Listeria monocytogenes
      • Bacterial pathogens

  17. Comparative Phenotypic and Genotypic Analysis of Swiss and Finnish Listeria monocytogenes Isolates with Respect to Benzalkonium Chloride Resistance

    • Frontiers in Microbiology

    • Anja B. Meier, Claudia Guldimann, Annukka Markkula, Anna Pöntinen, Hannu Korkeala, Taurai Tasara

      • Listeria monocytogenes
      • Bacterial pathogens

  18. Interventions to reduce the bacterial load in recycled broiler litter

    • Poultry Science

    • Two experiments were undertaken to evaluate the bacterial load in recycled litter between broiler flocks following addition of quicklime (T1), windrowing (T2), shallow fermentation (T3), and control (no intervention, T4). The first experiment was developed in field conditions in which the broiler houses were accompanied by 6 consecutive flocks and the effect of the treatments was assessed on enterobacteria and aerobic mesophiles.

      • Bacterial pathogens

  19. Reduction of Salmonella in ground chicken using a bacteriophage

    • Poultry Science

    • This study’s goal was to ascertain the effectiveness of a commercially available Salmonella bacteriophage during ground chicken production focusing on: water source, different Salmonella serovars, and time. Salmonella-free boneless, skinless chicken meat was inoculated with 4.0 Log CFU/cm2 of either a cocktail of 3 Salmonella isolates derived from ground chicken (GC) or a cocktail of 3 Salmonella strains not isolated from ground chicken (non-GC).

      • Salmonella
      • Bacterial pathogens

  20. Spoilage potential of three different bacteria isolated from spoiled grass carp (Ctenopharyngodon idellus) fillets during storage at 4 °C

    • LWT

    • Publication date: August 2017
      Source:LWT - Food Science and Technology, Volume 81

      Author(s): Hang Wang, Xiaochang Liu, Yuemei Zhang, Han Lu, Qian Xu, Ce Shi, Yongkang Luo

      • Bacterial pathogens

  21. Sodium alginate coating with plant extract affected microbial communities, biogenic amine formation and quality properties of abalone (Haliotis discus hannai Ino) during chill storage

    • LWT

    • Publication date: August 2017
      Source:LWT - Food Science and Technology, Volume 81

      Author(s): Ruoyi Hao, Yang Liu, Liming Sun, Lining Xia, Hui Jia, Qi Li, Jinfeng Pan

      • Bacterial pathogens

  22. Seroprevalence of Bartonella species, Coxiella burnetii and Toxoplasma gondii among patients with hematological malignancies: A pilot study in Romania

    • Zoonoses and Public Health

    • Summary

      • Toxoplasma gondii
      • Bacterial pathogens
      • Parasites

  23. Impact of treatments for recycled broiler litter on the viability and infectivity of microorganisms

    • Veterinary Microbiology

    • Publication date: Available online 21 March 2017


      Author(s): Daiane Voss-Rech, Iara Maria Trevisol, Liana Brentano, Virgínia Santiago Silva, Raquel Rebelatto, Fátima Regina Ferreira Jaenisch, Cintia Hiromi Okino, Marcos Antonio Zanella Mores, Arlei Coldebella, Sônia de Avila Botton, Clarissa Silveira Luiz Vaz

      • Bacterial pathogens

  24. Chloroform-free permeabilization for improved detection of β-galactosidase activity in Vibrio cholerae

    • Journal of Microbiological Methods

    • Publication date: Available online 21 March 2017


      Author(s): Charlotte Toulouse, Claudia C. Häse, Julia Steuber

      LacZ (β-galactosidase) is used to monitor the transcription of genes in reporter strains carrying the lacZ gene under the control of a promotor of interest. This protocol for LacZ activity determinations in Vibrio cholerae following detergent lysis results in 2.5-fold increase of LacZ activities compared to lysis with chloroform.



      • Vibrio
      • Bacterial pathogens

  25. A three monoclonal antibody combination potently neutralizes multiple botulinum neurotoxin serotype F subtypes

    • PLOS ONE

    • Yongfeng Fan, Consuelo Garcia-Rodriguez, Jianlong Lou, Weihua Wen, Fraser Conrad, Wenwu Zhai, Theresa J. Smith, Leonard A. Smith, James D. Marks

      • Clostridium botulinum
      • Bacterial pathogens
      • Chemical contaminants