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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. COVID-19 – 6 million cases worldwide and an overview of the diagnosis in Brazil: a tragedy to be announced

    • Diagnostic Microbiology and Infectious Disease

    • Author(s): Fernando Augusto Lima Marson

      • COVID-19

  2. SARS-CoV-2 IgG antibody responses in New York City

    • Diagnostic Microbiology and Infectious Disease

    • Author(s): Josh Reifer, Nosson Hayum, Benzion Heszkel, Ikey Klagsbald, Vincent A. Streva

      • COVID-19

  3. The importance of cycle threshold values in interpreting molecular tests for SARS-CoV-2

    • Diagnostic Microbiology and Infectious Disease

    • Author(s): Richard J. Drew, Sinéad O'Donnell, David LeBlanc, Mary McMahon, Dominic Natin

      • COVID-19

  4. Assessment of sample pooling for SARS-CoV-2 molecular testing for screening of asymptomatic persons in Tunisia

    • Diagnostic Microbiology and Infectious Disease

    • Author(s): Salma Abid, Sana Ferjani, Awatef El Moussi, Asma Ferjani, Mejda Nasr, Ichrak Landolsi, Karima Saidi, Hanène Gharbi, Hajer Letaief, Aicha Hechaichi, Mouna Safer, Nissaf Bouafif ep Ben Alaya, Ilhem Boutiba-Ben Boubaker

      • COVID-19

  5. False-positive SARS-CoV-2 serology in 3 children with Kawasaki disease

    • Diagnostic Microbiology and Infectious Disease

    • Author(s): Kelvin KW To, Gilbert T. Chua, Ka Li Kwok, Joshua SC Wong, Dennis Chi Yu Au, Yuen Yu Lam, Wilfred HS Wong, Marco HK Ho, Godfrey CF Chan, Celine SL Chui, Xue Li, Keith TS Tung, Rosa S Wong, Winnie WY Tso, Ian CK Wong, Christina SM Wong, Carol HY Fong, Kwok Hung Chan, Kwok Yung Yuen, Patrick Ip

      • COVID-19

  6. Monitoring antibody response following SARS-CoV-2 infection: diagnostic efficiency of 4 automated immunoassays

    • Diagnostic Microbiology and Infectious Disease

    • Author(s): Fleur Wolff, Hafid Dahma, Cécile Duterme, Sigi Van den Wijngaert, Olivier Vandenberg, Frédéric Cotton, Isabel Montesinos

      • COVID-19

  7. Susceptibility of Yersinia enterocolitica to the novel fluoroquinolone, delafloxacin

    • Diagnostic Microbiology and Infectious Disease

    • Author(s): Beverley C. Millar, John E. Moore

      Minimum inhibitory concentration to delafloxacin and ciprofloxacin were performed with Y. enterocolitica, Y. frederiksenii and Y. kristensenii. All organisms were sensitive to delafloxacin and ciprofloxacin. Our study indicates that delafloxacin may have a reasonable in vitro susceptibility profile against Yersinia among the species studied, which has not been previously reported.

      • Yersinia
      • Bacterial pathogens

  8. Diagnostic challenge of gastrointestinal infection due to lactose-fermenting Salmonella enterica subsp. enterica serovar 4,5:I:-

    • Diagnostic Microbiology and Infectious Disease

    • Author(s): Mathilde Payen, María Pardos de la Gándara, Aurélie Cointe, Alix Massiot, Philippe Bidet, François-Xavier Weill, Stéphane Bonacorsi

      • Salmonella
      • Bacterial pathogens

  9. Review of Automated DNA extraction systems for sequencing-based solutions for drug resistant tuberculosis detection

    • Diagnostic Microbiology and Infectious Disease

    • Author(s): Rebecca E. Colman, Anita Suresh, David L. Dolinger, Taylor Muñoz, Claudia M. Denkinger, Timothy C. Rodwell

  10. Bacterial and fungal pathogens isolated from patients with bloodstream infection: Frequency of occurrence and antimicrobial susceptibility patterns from the SENTRY Antimicrobial surveillance Program (2012–2017)

    • Diagnostic Microbiology and Infectious Disease

    • Author(s): Michael A. Pfaller, Cecilia G. Carvalhaes, Caitlin J. Smith, Daniel J. Diekema, Mariana Castanheira

      • Staphylococcus aureus
      • Bacterial pathogens

  11. Improving the etiological diagnosis of osteoarticular infections with the commercial multiplex real-time polymerase chain reaction SeptiFast®

    • Diagnostic Microbiology and Infectious Disease

    • Author(s): Maria Bruna Pasticci, Silvia Bozza, Giuseppe Vittorio De Socio, Abel Frias-Mazuecos, Antonella Mencacci

  12. A model for the prediction of antimicrobial resistance in Escherichia coli based on a comparative evaluation of fatty acid profiles

    • Diagnostic Microbiology and Infectious Disease

    • Author(s): Randal S. Stahl, Bledar Bisha, Sebabrata Mahapatra, Jeffrey C. Chandler

      • Bacterial pathogens

  13. Aureimonas altamirensis masquerading as Brucella spp. in a blood culture from a 68 year old male with Cancer

    • Diagnostic Microbiology and Infectious Disease

    • Author(s): Matthew Bankowski, Jason Blanton, Paul Fiorella, Jessy Motes, Nancy Pickens, Jeremy Racicot, Aaron Odegard, Patricia DuBose, Man-Kuang Chang, Charles Abaaba

      • Staphylococcus aureus
      • Bacterial pathogens

  14. The emergence of Staphylococcus epidermidis simultaneously non-susceptible to linezolid and teicoplanin in China

    • Diagnostic Microbiology and Infectious Disease

    • Author(s): Cailin Liu, Chunguang Chen, Yafei Ye, Xiaogai Li, Jingjing Sun, Lijuan Xu, Liang Ming

      • Staphylococcus aureus
      • Bacterial pathogens

  15. Evaluation of the RIDA®GENE RT-PCR assays for detection of sapovirus, astrovirus, adenovirus and rotavirus in stool samples of adults in Switzerland

    • Diagnostic Microbiology and Infectious Disease

    • Author(s): Patrick M. Redli, Adrian Wanzenried, Jon B. Huder, Christoph Berger, Livia Berlinger, Riccarda Capaul, Jürg Böni, Andrea Zbinden

      • Norovirus
      • Viruses

  16. Identification of compounds for improved growth of Leptospira in culture and isolation

    • Diagnostic Microbiology and Infectious Disease

    • Author(s): Vaigundan Dhayabaran, Divya Chidambaram, Patnam R. Krishnaswamy

      • Bacterial pathogens

  17. Optimal detection of extended-spectrum ß-lactamase producers, carbapenemase producers, polymyxin-resistant Enterobacterales, and vancomycin-resistant enterococci from stools

    • Diagnostic Microbiology and Infectious Disease

    • Author(s): Mustafa Sadek, Laurent Poirel, Patrice Nordmann

      • Bacterial pathogens

  18. Elution methods to evaluate colistin susceptibility of gram-negative rods

    • Diagnostic Microbiology and Infectious Disease

    • Author(s): Tanise Vendruscolo Dalmolin, Alana Mazzetti, Helena Ávila, Julia Kranich, Gabriel Ibrahim Borba Carneiro, Lavinia Nery Villa Stangçer Arend, Guilherme Nardi Becker, Karin Obladen Ferreira, Daiana de Lima-Morales, Afonso Luís Barth, Marcelo Pillonetto

      • Bacterial pathogens

  19. Viability of bacterial enteropathogens in fecal samples in the presence or absence of different types of transport media

    • Diagnostic Microbiology and Infectious Disease

    • Author(s): Byron Michael Berenger, Christina Ferrato, Linda Chui

      • Bacterial pathogens
      • Campylobacter
      • Salmonella
      • Shigella

  20. Emergent multidrug-resistant nontyphoidal Salmonella serovars isolated from poultry in Brazil coharboring blaCTX-M-2 and qnrB or blaCMY-2 in large plasmids

    • Diagnostic Microbiology and Infectious Disease

    • Author(s): Rafael Antonio Casarin Penha Filho, Joseane Cristina Ferreira, Ana Maria Iba Kanashiro, Angelo Berchieri Junior, Ana Lúcia da Costa Darini

      • Bacterial pathogens
      • Salmonella

  21. Comparative analysis of two commercial molecular tests for the detection of gastroenteric viruses on stool samples

    • Diagnostic Microbiology and Infectious Disease

    • Author(s): I. Sciandra, L. Piccioni, L. Coltella, S. Ranno, G. Giannelli, F. Falasca, G. Antonelli, C. Concato, O. Turriziani

      Abstract
      Objective

      Our purpose was to compare the performance of two recently introduced molecular tests for the identification of gastrointestinal viral infections.

      • Norovirus
      • Viruses

  22. Evaluation of the VIDAS hepatitis E IgM test in a nonendemic region

    • Diagnostic Microbiology and Infectious Disease

    • Author(s): Mercedeh Tajdar, Marijke Reynders, Mario Berth

      • Hepatitis
      • Viruses

  23. Development of a specific cytolethal distending toxin (cdt) gene (Eacdt)–based PCR assay for the detection of Escherichia albertii

    • Diagnostic Microbiology and Infectious Disease

    • Author(s): Atsushi Hinenoya, Hidetoshi Ichimura, Noritomo Yasuda, Seiya Harada, Kazuhiro Yamada, Masahiro Suzuki, Yoshio Iijima, Akira Nagita, M. John Albert, Noritoshi Hatanaka, Sharda Prasad Awasthi, Shinji Yamasaki

      • Bacterial pathogens
      • Shigella

  24. Defining threshold values in microscopic examination and qPCR for optimal performance of line probe assays for resistance detection in Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex

    • Diagnostic Microbiology and Infectious Disease

    • Author(s): Karoline Wagner, Benjamin Preiswerk, Peter M. Keller, Bettina Schulthess

      Abstract

      Line probe assays enable rapid detection of drug-resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis directly from clinical specimens. This study shows that defining threshold values in microscopic examination or PCR detection of M. tuberculosis optimizes line probe assay efficiency, thereby avoiding costs and loss of time due to unnecessary molecular testing.

      • Bacterial pathogens

  25. Diagnostic evaluation of the amastin protein from Leishmania infantum in canine and human visceral leishmaniasis and immunogenicity in human cells derived from patients and healthy controls

    • Diagnostic Microbiology and Infectious Disease

    • Author(s): Danniele L. Vale, Daniel S. Dias, Amanda S. Machado, Patrícia A.F. Ribeiro, Daniela P. Lage, Lourena E. Costa, Bethina T. Steiner, Grasiele S.V. Tavares, Fernanda F. Ramos, Abel Martínez-Rodrigo, Miguel A. Chávez-Fumagalli, Rachel B. Caligiorne, Danielle F. de Magalhães-Soares, Julia A.G. Silveira, Ricardo A. Machado-de-Ávila, Antônio L. Teixeira, Eduardo A.F. Coelho