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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. Molecular Detection of Legionella spp. and their associations with Mycobacterium spp., Pseudomonas aeruginosa and amoeba hosts in a drinking water distribution system

    • Journal of Applied Microbiology

    • Abstract

      Aims

      This study investigated waterborne opportunistic pathogens (OPs) including potential hosts, and evaluated the use of Legionella spp. for indicating microbial water quality for OPs within a full-scale operating drinking water distribution system (DWDS).

      • Campylobacter
      • Giardia lamblia
      • Cryptosporidium parvum
      • Bacterial pathogens
      • Parasites

  2. Pathogen Loading From Canada Geese Faeces in Freshwater: Potential Risks to Human Health Through Recreational Water Exposure

    • Zoonoses and Public Health

    • Canada geese (Branta canadensis) faeces have been shown to contain pathogenic protozoa and bacteria in numerous studies over the past 15 years. Further, increases in both the Canada geese populations and their ideal habitat requirements in the United States (US) translate to a greater presence of these human pathogens in public areas, such as recreational freshwater beaches.

      • Campylobacter
      • Listeria monocytogenes
      • Giardia lamblia
      • Cryptosporidium parvum
      • Bacterial pathogens
      • Parasites

  3. Environmental Factors Associated with High Fly Densities and Diarrhea in Vellore, India [Public and Environmental Health Microbiology]

    • Applied and Environmental Microbiology

    • Diarrhea causes significant morbidity and mortality in Indian children under 5 years of age. Flies carry enteric pathogens and may mediate foodborne infections. In this study, we characterized fly densities as a determinant of infectious diarrhea in a longitudinal cohort of 160 urban and 80 rural households with 1,274 individuals (27% under 5 years of age) in Vellore, India. Household questionnaires on living conditions were completed at enrollment.

      • Norovirus
      • Shigella
      • Vibrio
      • Giardia lamblia
      • Cryptosporidium parvum
      • Bacterial pathogens
      • Parasites
      • Viruses

  4. Development of a qRT-PCR method to assess the viability of Giardia intestinalis cysts, Cryptosporidium spp. and Toxoplasma gondii oocysts

    • Food Control

    • Publication date: January 2016
      , Volume 59
      Author(s): Emmanuelle Travaillé , Stéphanie La Carbona , Gilles Gargala , Dominique Aubert , Karine Guyot , Aurélien Dumètre , Isabelle Villena , Maryline Houssin

      • Giardia lamblia
      • Cryptosporidium parvum
      • Parasites

  5. Reactivation of Giardia lamblia cysts after exposure to low-pressure UV irradiation

    • Canadian Journal of Microbiology

    • e-First Articles.

      • Giardia lamblia
      • Parasites

  6. Intestinal Parasite Infections in Symptomatic Children Attending Hospital in Siem Reap, Cambodia

    • PLOS ONE

    • Catrin E. Moore, Phot Nget, Mao Saroeun, Suy Kuong, Seng Chanthou, Varun Kumar, Rachel Bousfield, Johanna Nader, J. Wendi Bailey, Nicholas J. Beeching, Nicholas P. Day, Christopher M. Parry

      Background

      • Giardia lamblia
      • Parasites

  7. A reduced-cost approach for analyzing fresh produce for contamination with Cryptosporidium oocysts and / or Giardia cysts

    • Food Research International

    • Publication date: Available online 9 May 2015

      Author(s): Kjersti Selstad Utaaker , Qirong Huang , Lucy J. Robertson

      • Giardia lamblia
      • Cryptosporidium parvum
      • Cyclospora cayetanensis
      • Parasites

  8. Molecular Survey of Occurrence and Quantity of Legionella spp., Mycobacterium spp., Pseudomonas aeruginosa and Amoeba Hosts in Municipal Drinking Water Storage Tank Sediments

    • Journal of Applied Microbiology

    • Aim
      To examine the occurrence and quantity of potential pathogens and an indicator of microbial contamination in the sediments of municipal drinking water storage tanks (MDWSTs), given the absence of such data across the United States.

      • Bacterial pathogens
      • Giardia lamblia
      • Cryptosporidium parvum
      • Parasites
      • Campylobacter

  9. Comparison of four rapid diagnostic tests, ELISA, microscopy and PCR for the detection of Giardia lamblia, Cryptosporidium spp. and Entamoeba histolytica in feces

    • Journal of Microbiological Methods

    • Publication date: March 2015
      , Volume 110
      Author(s): Dorien Van den Bossche , Lieselotte Cnops , Jacob Verschueren , Marjan Van Esbroeck

      • Parasites
      • Giardia lamblia
      • Cryptosporidium parvum

  10. Aetiology of acute paediatric gastroenteritis in Bulgaria during summer months: prevalence of the viral infections [STANDARD]

    • Journal of Medical Microbiology

    • Paediatric acute gastroenteritis is a global public health problem.Comprehensive laboratory investigation for viral, bacterial and parasitic agents is helpful for improving management of acute gastroenteritis in health care settings and for monitoring and controlling the spread of these infections.Our study aimed to investigate the role of various pathogens in infantile diarrhoea in Bulgaria outside the classical winter epidemics of rotavirus and norovirus.Stool samples from 115 hospitalized

      • Giardia lamblia
      • Cryptosporidium parvum
      • Campylobacter
      • Norovirus
      • Shigella