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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. Nontoxigenic Vibrio cholerae Non-O1/O139 Isolate from a Case of Human Gastroenteritis in the U.S. Gulf Coast [Bacteriology]

    • Journal of Clinical Microbiology

    • An occurrence of Vibrio cholerae non-O1/O139 gastroenteritis in the U.S. Gulf Coast is reported here. Genomic analysis revealed that the isolate lacked known virulence factors associated with the clinical outcome of a V. cholerae infection but did contain putative genomic islands and other accessory virulence factors. Many of these factors are widespread among environmental strains of V. cholerae, suggesting that there might be additional virulence factors in non-O1/O139 V.

      • Bacterial pathogens
      • Vibrio

  2. Fast and Sensitive Detection of Enteropathogenic Yersinia by Immunoassays [Bacteriology]

    • Journal of Clinical Microbiology

    • Yersinia enterocolitica and Yersinia pseudotuberculosis, the two Yersinia species that are enteropathogenic for humans, are distributed worldwide and frequently cause diarrhea in inhabitants of temperate and cold countries. Y. enterocolitica is a major cause of foodborne disease resulting from consumption of contaminated pork meat and is further associated with substantial economic cost.

      • Yersinia
      • Bacterial pathogens

  3. Prevalence, characterization, and antimicrobial resistance of Yersinia species and Yersinia enterocolitica isolated from raw milk in farm bulk tanks

    • Journal of Dairy Science

    • Publication date: February 2015
      , Volume 98, Issue 2
      Author(s): Hossein Jamali , Mohammadjavad Paydar , Behrad Radmehr , Salmah Ismail

      • Yersinia
      • Bacterial pathogens

  4. A lactose fermentation product produced by Lactococcus lactis subsp. lactis, acetate, inhibits the motility of flagellated pathogenic bacteria [STANDARD]

    • Microbiology

    • Many strains of lactic acid bacteria have been used for the production of probiotics. Some metabolites produced by lactic acid bacteria impair the motilities of pathogenic bacteria. Because bacterial motility is strongly associated with virulence, the metabolic activities of lactic acid bacteria are effective for suppressing bacterial infections. Here we show that lactose fermentation by Lactococcus lactis subsp. lactis inhibits the motility of Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium.

      • Bacterial pathogens
      • Vibrio

  5. CRP-dependent Positive Autoregulation and Proteolytic Degradation Regulates Competence Activator Sxy of Escherichia coli

    • Molecular Microbiology

    • Natural competence, the ability of bacteria to take up exogenous DNA and incorporate it into their chromosomes, is in most bacteria a transient phenomenon under complex genetic and environmental control. In the Gram-negative bacteria Haemophilus influenzae and Vibrio cholerae the master regulator Sxy/TfoX controls competence development.

      • Bacterial pathogens
      • Vibrio

  6. Yersinia enterocolitica Type III secretion injectisomes form regularly spaced clusters which incorporate new machines upon activation

    • Molecular Microbiology

    • Bacterial type III secretion systems or injectisomes are multi protein complexes directly transporting bacterial effector proteins into eukaryotic host cells. To investigate the distribution of injectisomes in the bacterium and the influence of activation of the system on that distribution, we combined in vivo fluorescent imaging and high resolution in situ visualization of Yersinia enterocolitica injectisomes by cryo-electron tomography.

      • Yersinia
      • Bacterial pathogens

  7. HPr regulates pyruvate kinase A activity in response to glucose in Vibrio vulnificus

    • Molecular Microbiology

    • The bacterial phosphoenolpyruvate:sugar phosphotransferase system (PTS) consists of two general energy-coupling proteins (enzyme I and HPr) and several sugar-specific enzyme IIs. Although, in addition to the phosphorylation-coupled transport of sugars, various regulatory roles of PTS components have been identified in Escherichia coli, much less is known about the PTS in the opportunistic human pathogen Vibrio vulnificus.

      • Bacterial pathogens
      • Vibrio

  8. Quality attributes of map packaged ready-to-eat baby carrots by using chitosan-based coatings

    • Postharvest Biology and Technology

    • Publication date: February 2015
      , Volume 100
      Author(s): I. Leceta , S. Molinaro , P. Guerrero , J.P. Kerry , K. de la Caba

      • Bacterial pathogens
      • Staphylococcus aureus
      • Bacillus cereus

  9. Staphylococcal Enterotoxin H Induced Apoptosis of Bovine Mammary Epithelial Cells in Vitro

    • Toxins

    • Staphylococcal enterotoxins (SEs) are powerful superantigenic toxins produced by Staphylococcus aureus (S. aureus). They can cause food poisoning and toxic shock. However, their impact on bovine mammary epithelial cells (bMECs) is still unknown. In this study, the distribution of SE genes was evaluated in 116 S. aureus isolates from bovine mastitis, and the most prevalent genes were seh (36.2%), followed by sei (12.1%), seg (11.2%), ser (4.3%), sec (3.4%), sea (2.6%) and sed (1.7%).

      • Bacterial pathogens
      • Staphylococcus aureus

  10. Hydrophobically-modified silica aerogels: Novel food-contact surfaces with bacterial anti-adhesion properties

    • Food Control

    • Publication date: June 2015
      , Volume 52
      Author(s): Jun Kyun Oh , Keila Perez , Nandita Kohli , Veli Kara , Jingyu Li , Younjin Min , Alejandro Castillo , Matthew Taylor , Arul Jayaraman , Luis Cisneros-Zevallos , Mustafa Akbulut

      • Bacterial pathogens

  11. Virucidal effect of high power ultrasound combined with a chemical sanitizer containing peroxyacetic acid for water reconditioning in the fresh-cut industry

    • Food Control

    • Publication date: June 2015
      , Volume 52
      Author(s): G. Sánchez , P. Elizaquível , R. Aznar , M.V. Selma

      • Bacterial pathogens
      • Escherichia coli O157:H7

  12. Bacterial Flagella: Twist and Stick, or Dodge across the Kingdoms

    • PLOS Pathogens

    • Yannick Rossez, Eliza B. Wolfson, Ashleigh Holmes, David L. Gally, Nicola J. Holden

      • Bacterial pathogens
      • Campylobacter

  13. Reprogramming of Yersinia from Virulent to Persistent Mode Revealed by Complex In Vivo RNA-seq Analysis

    • PLOS Pathogens

    • Kemal Avican, Anna Fahlgren, Mikael Huss, Ann Kathrin Heroven, Michael Beckstette, Petra Dersch, Maria Fällman

      • Yersinia
      • Bacterial pathogens

  14. Microbial composition of turbid rice wine (Makgeolli) at different stages of production in a real processing line

    • Food Control

    • Publication date: July 2015
      , Volume 53
      Author(s): S.A. Kim , S.J. Yun , S.H. Jeon , N.H. Kim , H.W. Kim , T.J. Cho , S.H. Lee , I.G. Hwang , M.S. Rhee

      • Bacterial pathogens

  15. Bacteriocin production and inhibition of Listeria monocytogenes by Lactobacillus sakei subsp. sakei 2a in a potentially synbiotic cheese spread

    • Food Microbiology

    • Publication date: June 2015
      , Volume 48
      Author(s): Rafael Chacon Ruiz Martinez , Cristina Dini Staliano , Antonio Diogo Silva Vieira , Martha Lissete Morales Villarreal , Svetoslav Dimitrov Todorov , Susana Marta Isay Saad , Bernadette Dora Gombossy de Melo Franco

      • Bacterial pathogens
      • Listeria monocytogenes

  16. Heat resistance of Cronobacter sakazakii DPC 6529 and its behavior in reconstituted powdered infant formula

    • Food Research International

    • Publication date: Available online 16 January 2015

      Author(s): Juan-Pablo Huertas , Avelino Álvarez-Ordóñez , Ruth Morrisey , Maria Ros-Chumillas , Maria-Dolores Esteban , Javier Maté , Alfredo Palop , Colin Hill

      • Bacterial pathogens
      • Cronobacter

  17. Influence of composition and processing of Frankfurter sausages on the growth dynamics of Listeria monocytogenes under vacuum

    • Food Research International

    • Publication date: Available online 17 January 2015

      Author(s): Maria Baka , Estefanía Noriega , Efstathia Tsakali , Jan F.M. Van Impe

      • Bacterial pathogens
      • Listeria monocytogenes

  18. Sensitive enumeration of Listeria monocytogenes and other Listeria species in various naturally contaminated matrices using a membrane filtration method

    • Food Microbiology

    • Publication date: June 2015
      , Volume 48
      Author(s): Léna Barre , Emilie Brasseur , Camille Doux , Bertrand Lombard , Nathalie Gnanou Besse

      • Bacterial pathogens
      • Listeria monocytogenes

  19. Persistent High IgG Phase I Antibody Levels against Coxiella burnetii among Veterinarians Compared to Patients Previously Diagnosed with Acute Q Fever after Three Years of Follow-Up

    • PLOS ONE

    • Cornelia C. H. Wielders, Anneroos W. Boerman, Barbara Schimmer, René van den Brom, Daan W. Notermans, Wim van der Hoek, Peter M. Schneeberger

      Background

      • Bacterial pathogens

  20. Spoilage evaluation, shelf-life prediction, and potential spoilage organisms of tropical brackish water shrimp (Penaeus notialis) at different storage temperatures

    • Food Microbiology

    • Publication date: June 2015
      , Volume 48
      Author(s): D. Sylvain Dabadé , Heidy M.W. den Besten , Paulin Azokpota , M.J. Robert Nout , D. Joseph Hounhouigan , Marcel H. Zwietering

      • Bacterial pathogens

  21. Dynamics and diversity of microbial community succession in traditional fermentation of Shanxi aged vinegar

    • Food Microbiology

    • Publication date: May 2015
      , Volume 47
      Author(s): Zhiqiang Nie , Yu Zheng , Hongfu Du , Sankuan Xie , Min Wang

      • Bacterial pathogens

  22. Effect of High Pressure Processing on the survival of Shiga Toxin-Producing Escherichia coli (Big Six vs. O157:H7) in ground beef

    • Food Microbiology

    • Publication date: June 2015
      , Volume 48
      Author(s): HsinYun Hsu , Shiowshuh Sheen , Joseph Sites , Jennifer Cassidy , Butch Scullen , Christopher Sommers

      • Bacterial pathogens
      • Enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli

  23. Cinnamon bark oil and its components inhibit biofilm formation and toxin production

    • International Journal of Food Microbiology

    • Publication date: 16 February 2015
      , Volume 195
      Author(s): Yong-Guy Kim , Jin-Hyung Lee , Soon-Il Kim , Kwang-Hyun Baek , Jintae Lee

      • Bacterial pathogens
      • Escherichia coli O157:H7

  24. Predictive model and optimization of a combined treatment of caprylic acid and citric acid for the reduction of Escherichia coli O157:H7 using the response surface methodology

    • International Journal of Food Microbiology

    • Publication date: 16 March 2015
      , Volume 197
      Author(s): S.A. Kim , M.S. Rhee

      • Bacterial pathogens
      • Escherichia coli O157:H7

  25. Characteristics and phylogeny of Bacillus cereus strains isolated from Maari, a traditional West African food condiment

    • International Journal of Food Microbiology

    • Publication date: 2 March 2015
      , Volume 196
      Author(s): Line Thorsen , Christine Kere Kando , Hagrétou Sawadogo , Nadja Larsen , Bréhima Diawara , Georges Anicet Ouédraogo , Niels Bohse Hendriksen , Lene Jespersen

      • Bacterial pathogens
      • Bacillus cereus