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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. Higher Temperatures Do Not Always Achieve Better Antibiotic Resistance Gene Removal in Anaerobic Digestion of Swine Manure [Public and Environmental Health Microbiology]

    • Applied and Environmental Microbiology

    • This study employed high-throughput quantitative PCR and 16S rRNA sequencing to evaluate the effect of temperature and residual antibiotics on the dynamics of antibiotic resistance genes (ARGs) and microbial communities during anaerobic digestion of swine manure. The abundances of total ARGs and 16S rRNA genes significantly decreased in all of four treatments (25°C, 37°C, and 37°C with 50 mg of wet weight antibiotics of body weight, and 55°C).

      • Antibiotic residues
      • Chemical contaminants

  2. Extragenic suppression of elongation factor P mutant phenotypes in Erwin

    • Journal of Bacteriology

    • Elongation factor P (EF-P) facilitates the translation of certain peptide motifs, including those with multiple proline residues. EF-P must be post-translationally modified for full functionality; in Enterobacteria this is accomplished by two enzymes, EpmA and EpmB, which catalyze the β-lysylation of EF-P at a conserved lysine position.

      • Antibiotic residues
      • Bacterial pathogens
      • Chemical contaminants

  3. Bioprospecting of Native Efflux Pumps To Enhance Furfural Tolerance in Ethanologenic Escherichia coli [Biotechnology]

    • Applied and Environmental Microbiology

    • Efficient microbial conversion of lignocellulose into valuable products is often hindered by the presence of furfural, a dehydration product of pentoses in hemicellulose sugar syrups derived from woody biomass. For a cost-effective lignocellulose microbial conversion, robust biocatalysts are needed that can tolerate toxic inhibitors while maintaining optimal metabolic activities.

      • Antibiotic residues
      • Bacterial pathogens
      • Chemical contaminants

  4. Application of the Mechanical High-Pressure Method Combined with High-Performance Liquid Chromatography–Tandem Mass Spectrometry for Determination of Veterinary Drug Residues in Incurred Chicken and Rabbit Muscle Tissues

    • Journal of Food Protection

    • Journal of Food Protection, Volume 82, Issue 3, Page 415-421, March 2019.

      • Antibiotic residues
      • Chemical contaminants
      • Antibiotic residues
      • Chemical contaminants

  5. Characteristics of ripened Tronchón cheese from raw goat milk containing legally admissible amounts of antibiotics

    • Journal of Dairy Science

    • The aim of this study was to evaluate the transfer of the most widely used antibiotics in dairy goats from milk to cheese as well as their effect on the cheese-making process and cheese characteristics during ripening. Antibiotic-free milk was spiked individually with 7 veterinary drugs (amoxicillin, benzylpenicillin, cloxacillin, erythromycin, ciprofloxacin, enrofloxacin, and oxytetracycline) at an equivalent concentration of the European Union maximum residue limit.

      • Antibiotic residues
      • Chemical contaminants

  6. LysPBC2, a Novel Endolysin Harboring a Bacillus cereus Spore Binding Domain [Genetics and Molecular Biology]

    • Applied and Environmental Microbiology

    • To control the spore-forming human pathogen Bacillus cereus, we isolated and characterized a novel endolysin, LysPBC2, from a newly isolated B. cereus phage, PBC2. Compared to the narrow host range of phage PBC2, LysPBC2 showed very broad lytic activity against all Bacillus, Listeria, and Clostridium species tested.

      • Chemical contaminants
      • Antibiotic residues
      • Bacillus cereus
      • Bacterial pathogens

  7. Toxins, Vol. 11, Pages 128: The Diversified O-Superfamily in Californiconus californicus Presents a Conotoxin with Antimycobacterial Activity

    • Toxins

    • Toxins, Vol. 11, Pages 128: The Diversified O-Superfamily in Californiconus californicus Presents a Conotoxin with Antimycobacterial Activity

      Toxins doi: 10.3390/toxins11020128

      • Chemical contaminants
      • Antibiotic residues
      • Bacterial pathogens

  8. Importance of antibiotic residues in animal food

    • Food and Chemical Toxicology

    • Publication date: Available online 30 January 2019

      Food and Chemical Toxicology

      Author(s): Merve Bacanli, Nurşen Başaran

      • Antibiotic residues
      • Chemical contaminants

  9. Validation of HPLC Multi-residue Method for Determination of Fluoroquinolones, Tetracycline, Sulphonamides and Chloramphenicol Residues in Bovine Milk

    • Food Analytical Methods

      • Antibiotic residues
      • Chemical contaminants

  10. Effects of antibiotic residues in milk on growth, ruminal fermentation, and microbial community of preweaning dairy calves

    • Journal of Dairy Science

    • The aim of this study was to evaluate the effects of antibiotic residues in milk on growth, ruminal fermentation, and microbial community of dairy calves in their first 35 d of age. Twenty newborn Holstein bull calves were assigned to 1 of 2 treatments equally: milk replacer without antibiotics (control) and milk replacer plus 4 antibiotics: 0.024 mg/L of penicillin, 0.025 mg/L of streptomycin, 0.1 mg/L of tetracycline, and 0.33 mg/L of ceftiofur (ANT).

      • Chemical contaminants
      • Antibiotic residues

  11. Profiling of Benzimidazoles and related Metabolites in Pig Serum based on SiO2@NiO Solid-Phase Extraction Combined Precursor Ion Scan with High Resolution Orbitrap Mass Spectrometry

    • Food Chemistry

    • Available online 19 January 2019

      Author(s): Feng Zheng, Hua-Ming Xiao, Quan-Fei Zhu, Qiong-Wei Yu, Yu-Qi Feng

      • Antibiotic residues
      • Chemical contaminants

  12. Emamectin benzoate in tilapia: Alternative method for drug incorporation into feed and associated residual depletion study

    • Food Research International

    • Available online 17 January 2019

      Author(s): Pedro Fraccarolli Neto, Agnaldo Fernando Baldo da Silva, Evandro Bilha Moro, Fabiana Pilarski, Osvaldo de Freitas, Mark H. Mooney, Jonas Augusto Rizzato Paschoal

      • Antibiotic residues
      • Chemical contaminants

  13. Diarrheal bacterial pathogens and multi-resistant enterobacteria in the Choqueyapu River in La Paz, Bolivia

    • PLOS ONE

    • Jessica Guzman-Otazo, Lucia Gonzales-Siles, Violeta Poma, Johan Bengtsson-Palme, Kaisa Thorell, Carl-Fredrik Flach, Volga Iñiguez, Åsa Sjöling

      • Shigella
      • Antibiotic residues
      • Bacterial pathogens
      • Chemical contaminants

  14. Presence of tetracyclines, quinolones, lincomycin and streptomycin in milk

    • Food Control

    • Available online 4 January 2019

      Author(s): Bingyao Du, Fang Wen, Yangdong Zhang, Nan Zheng, Songli Li, Fadi Li, Jiaqi Wang

      • Antibiotic residues
      • Chemical contaminants

  15. Determination of neonicotinoids and 199 other pesticide residues in honey by liquid and gas chromatography coupled with tandem mass spectrometry

    • Food Chemistry

    • Available online 5 January 2019

      Author(s): Marta Gaweł, Tomasz Kiljanek, Alicja Niewiadowska, Stanisław Semeniuk, Milena Goliszek, Olga Burek, Andrzej Posyniak

      • Antibiotic residues
      • Pesticide residues
      • Chemical contaminants

  16. Evidence from mutational analysis for a single transmembrane substrate binding site in the histidine ATP-binding cassette transporter of Salmonella enterica serovar

    • Journal of Bacteriology

    • The histidine ATP-binding cassette (ABC) transporter of Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium is among the best-studied type I ABC import systems. The transporter consists of two transmembrane subunits, HisQ and HisM, and a homodimer of the nucleotide-binding subunit, HisP. Substrates are delivered by two periplasmic solute binding proteins, HisJ and LAO, with preferences for histidine and lysine, arginine, ornithine, respectively.

      • Antibiotic residues
      • Bacterial pathogens
      • Chemical contaminants
      • Salmonella

  17. Food safety related knowledge, attitudes, and practices (KAP) among the students from nursing, education and medical college in Chongqing, China

    • Food Control

    • Available online 3 August 2018

      Author(s): Xinmiao Luo, Xianglong Xu, Hua Chen, Ruixue Bai, Yan Zhang, Xiaorong Hou, Fan Zhang, Yong Zhang, Manoj Sharma, Huan Zeng, Yong Zhao

      • Antibiotic residues
      • Pesticide residues
      • Chemical contaminants

  18. An Enhanced Direct Competitive Immunoassay for the Detection of Kanamycin and Tobramycin in Milk Using Multienzyme-Particle Amplification

    • Food Analytical Methods

      • Antibiotic residues
      • Chemical contaminants

  19. Low false response rates in screening a hundred veterinary drug residues in foodstuffs by LC-MS/MS with analyte-specific correction of the matrix effect

    • Food Control

    • Available online 12 July 2018

      Author(s): Thierry Delatour, Marie-Claude Savoy, Adrienne Tarres, Thomas Bessaire, Pascal Mottier, Aurélien Desmarchelier

      • Antibiotic residues
      • Chemical contaminants

  20. Increasing the Antimicrobial Activity of Nisin-Based Lantibiotics against Gram-Negative Pathogens [Genetics and Molecular Biology]

    • Applied and Environmental Microbiology

    • Lantibiotics are ribosomally synthesized and posttranslationally modified antimicrobial compounds containing lanthionine and methyl-lanthionine residues. Nisin, one of the most extensively studied and used lantibiotics, has been shown to display very potent activity against Gram-positive bacteria, and stable resistance is rarely observed. By binding to lipid II and forming pores in the membrane, nisin can cause the efflux of cellular constituents and inhibit cell wall biosynthesis.

      • Antibiotic residues
      • Bacterial pathogens
      • Chemical contaminants

  21. Simultaneous Determination of Erythromycin, Tetracycline, and Chloramphenicol Residue in Raw Milk by Molecularly Imprinted Polymer Mixed with Solid-Phase Extraction

    • Food Analytical Methods

      • Antibiotic residues
      • Chemical contaminants

  22. Antimicrobial residues and resistance against critically important antimicrobials in non-typhoidal Salmonella from meat sold at wet markets and supermarkets in Vietnam

    • International Journal of Food Microbiology

    • Publication date: 2 February 2018
      , Volume 266

      Author(s): Nguyen Thi Nhung, Nguyen Thi Bich Van, Nguyen Van Cuong, Truong Thi Quy Duong, Tran Thi Nhat, Tran Thi Thu Hang, Nguyen Thi Hong Nhi, Bach Tuan Kiet, Vo Be Hien, Pham Thi Ngoc, James Campbell, Guy Thwaites, Juan Carrique-Mas

      • Salmonella
      • Antibiotic residues
      • Bacterial pathogens
      • Chemical contaminants

  23. Thermal degradation of chloramphenicol in model solutions, spiked tissues and incurred samples

    • Food Chemistry

    • Publication date: 15 May 2018
      , Volume 248

      Author(s): Lei Tian, Stéphane Bayen

      • Chemical contaminants
      • Antibiotic residues

  24. Evaluation of antimicrobials residues in farmed gilthead seabream (Sparus aurata) after administration through medicated feed

    • Food Control

    • Publication date: April 2018
      , Volume 86

      Author(s): João Rosa, Sara Leston, Maria Castro, Andreia Freitas, Jorge Barbosa, Miguel Ângelo Pardal, Paulo Rema, Jorge Dias, Fernando Ramos

      • Chemical contaminants
      • Antibiotic residues

  25. Metabolomic analysis of white and yellow seminal plasma in turkeys (Meleagris gallopavo)1

    • Poultry Science

    • AbstractNumerous studies have indicated that yellow semen syndrome (YSS) of turkey is associated with the production of low semen quality, resulting in reduced fertility and hatchability. It is unknown at present if the etiology of YSS also could be linked to low-molecular weight metabolites. The aim of this study was to examine the metabolome of white and yellow seminal plasma of turkeys.

      • Antibiotic residues
      • Chemical contaminants