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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. Current knowledge on molecular mechanisms of microorganism-mediated bioremediation for arsenic contamination: A review

    • Microbiological Research

    • Arsenic (As) contamination is a global problem, and seriously threatens the ecosystems and human health. Over decades, numerous efforts regarding the microorganism-mediated bioremediation have been attempted to control the As-contaminated environments.

      • Chemical contaminants
      • Heavy Metals

  2. Antibacterial efficacies and Time-kill kinetics of Indigenous Ghanaian spice extracts against Listeria monocytogenes and some other food-borne pathogenic bacteria

    • Microbiological Research

    • Increase in food-borne outbreaks has become public health concern worldwide. Exploitation of the antimicrobial properties of dietary spices has become important pharmaceutical tool for controlling food-borne pathogens. This study aimed at evaluating the antibacterial potentials of Ghanaian spices against Listeria monocytogenes and other prevalent food-borne pathogens. In preliminary studies, Listeria was isolated from some food samples.

      • Bacterial pathogens
      • Listeria monocytogenes

  3. Analysis of enterotoxigenic effect of Staphylococcus aureus and Staphylococcus epidermidis enterotoxins C and L on mice

    • Microbiological Research

    • Pathogenic properties of orthologues to S. aureus staphylococcal enterotoxin C (SEC) and staphylococcal enterotoxin L (SEL) produced by S. epidermidis are largely unexplored. We assessed the enteropathogenic effects of S. epidermidis SECepi and SELepi and S. aureus SEC3 and SEL after oral administration to Balb/c mice. Intestinal sections from SE-treated mice were analyzed histopathologically.

      • Bacterial pathogens
      • Staphylococcus aureus

  4. The menaquinone pathway is important for susceptibility of Staphylococcus aureus to the antibiotic adjuvant, cannabidiol

    • Microbiological Research

    • Emergence of antibiotic resistant bacteria is evolving at an alarming pace; therefore, we must start turning to alternative approaches. One of these, could be the use of antibiotic adjuvants that enhances the effect of antibiotics towards resistant bacteria. A novel antibiotic adjuvant is cannabidiol (CBD), which we have previously shown can enhance the effect of bacitracin (BAC).

      • Bacterial pathogens
      • Staphylococcus aureus

  5. MSI-1 combats drug-resistant S. aureus by affecting bacterial viability and inhibiting carotenoid pigment production

    • Microbiological Research
      • Bacterial pathogens
      • Staphylococcus aureus

  6. Investigating the role of BN-domains of FlhF involved in flagellar synthesis in Campylobacter jejuni

    • Microbiological Research
      • Bacterial pathogens
      • Campylobacter

  7. Investigating the role of BN-domains of FlhF involved in flagellar synthesis in Campylobacter jejuni

    • Microbiological Research

    • Author(s): Xiaofei Li, Qinwen Chai, Lina Zheng, Pingyu Huang, Ozan Gundogdu, Xinan Jiao, Yuanyue Tang, Jinlin Huang

      • Campylobacter
      • Bacterial pathogens

  8. MSI-1 combats drug-resistant S. aureus by affecting bacterial viability and inhibiting carotenoid pigment production

    • Microbiological Research

    • Author(s): Xinyue Ye, Ya Huang, Chenyu Zhou, Xiaoyun Liu, Wenxuan Zhao, Xiurong Zhao, Xiaolin Xie, Liping Wang, Zhaoshi Bai, Changlin Zhou, Lingman Ma

      • Staphylococcus aureus
      • Bacterial pathogens

  9. A gatekeeper protein contributes to T3SS2 function via interaction with an ATPase in Vibrio parahaemolyticus

    • Microbiological Research

    • Author(s): I-Ting Lin, Edan R. Tulman, Steve J. Geary, Xiaohui Zhou

      • Bacterial pathogens
      • Vibrio

  10. Rapid detection of trace Salmonella in milk using an effective pretreatment combined with droplet digital polymerase chain reaction

    • Microbiological Research

    • Author(s): Meihong Du, Jingwen Li, Qingjun Liu, Yanfei Wang, Erning Chen, Fuying Kang, Chenxiao Tu

      • Salmonella
      • Bacterial pathogens

  11. Characterization of siderophore-producing microorganisms associated to plants from high-Andean heavy metal polluted soil from Callejón de Huaylas (Ancash, Perú)

    • Microbiological Research

    • Author(s): Carmen Tamariz-Angeles, Gabriela D. Huamán, Edson Palacios-Robles, Percy Olivera-Gonzales, Alberto Castañeda-Barreto

  12. The rfbN gene of Salmonella Typhimurium mediates phage adsorption by modulating biosynthesis of lipopolysaccharide

    • Microbiological Research

    • Author(s): Haojie Ge, Kai Zhang, Dan Gu, Xiang Chen, Xin Wang, Guiqin Li, Hongji Zhu, Yingyan Chang, Ge Zhao, Zhiming Pan, Xin’an Jiao, Maozhi Hu

      • Salmonella
      • Bacterial pathogens

  13. The mutated Bacillus amyloliquefaciens strain shows high resistance to Aeromonas hydrophila and Aeromonas veronii in grass carp

    • Microbiological Research

    • Author(s): Pengji Zhou, Haiyan Huang, Jiaoyang Lu, Zirong Zhu, Junyan Xie, Liqiu Xia, Sisi Luo, Kexuan Zhou, Wenhui Chen, Xuezhi Ding

      • Bacterial pathogens

  14. LuxQ-LuxU-LuxO Pathway Regulates Biofilm Formation by Vibrio parahaemolyticus

    • Microbiological Research

    • Author(s): Min Liu, Xinyuan Zhu, Ce Zhang, Zhe Zhao

      • Vibrio
      • Bacterial pathogens

  15. The transcriptional regulator Zur regulates the expression of ZnuABC and T6SS4 in response to stresses in Yersinia pseudotuberculosis

    • Microbiological Research

    • Author(s): Ran Cai, Fen Gao, Junfeng Pan, Xinwei Hao, Zonglan Yu, Yichen Qu, Jialin Li, Dandan Wang, Yao Wang, Xihui Shen, Xingyu Liu, Yantao Yang

      • Yersinia
      • Bacterial pathogens

  16. (p)ppGpp synthetases are required for the pathogenicity of Salmonella Pullorum in chickens

    • Microbiological Research

    • Author(s): Xin Wang, Yiluo Cheng, Wenting Zhang, Qin Lu, Guoyuan Wen, Qingping Luo, Huabin Shao, Zishu Pan, Tengfei Zhang

      • Bacterial pathogens
      • Salmonella

  17. WbaP is required for swarm motility and intramacrophage multiplication of Salmonella Enteritidis spiC mutant by glucose use ability

    • Microbiological Research

    • Author(s): Yaonan Wang, Guifeng Liu, Jian Zhang, Dan Gu, Maozhi Hu, Yunzheng Zhang, Zhiming Pan, Shizhong Geng, Xin’an Jiao

      • Salmonella
      • Bacterial pathogens

  18. β-lactamase inhibitory potential of Kalafungin from marine Streptomyces in Staphylococcus aureus infected zebrafish

    • Microbiological Research

    • Author(s): Jabila Mary Thankaraj Rajam, Rajaretinam Rajesh Kannan, Muthamil Iniyan Appadurai, Carlton Ranjith Wilson Alphonse, Nandhagopal Soundarapandian, Vinita Vishwakarma, Prakash Vincent Samuel Gnana

      • Staphylococcus aureus
      • Bacterial pathogens

  19. Mycobacterium tuberculosis Raf kinase inhibitor protein (RKIP) Rv2140c is involved in cell wall arabinogalactan biosynthesis via phosphorylation

    • Microbiological Research

    • Author(s): M.A. Abo-Kadoum, Mohammed Assad, Yongdong Dai, Nzungize Lambert, Ulrich Aymard Ekomi Moure, Adel Eltoukhy, Stech A.E. Nazou, Asmaa Moaaz, Jianping Xie

      • Bacterial pathogens

  20. Improving Hybrid Pennisetum growth and Cadmium phytoremediation potential by using Bacillus megaterium BM18-2 spore as biofertilizer

    • Microbiological Research

    • Author(s): Nehal Kamal, Zhiwei Liu, Chen Qian, Juanzi Wu, Xiaoxian Zhong

      • Heavy Metals
      • Chemical contaminants

  21. Comprehensive depiction of novel heavy metal tolerant and EPS producing bioluminescent Vibrio alginolyticus PBR1 and V. rotiferianus PBL1 confined from marine organisms

    • Microbiological Research

    • Author(s): Paritosh Parmar, Arpit Shukla, Dweipayan Goswami, Shailendra Gaur, Baldev Patel, Meenu Saraf

      • Vibrio
      • Bacterial pathogens

  22. Role of wzxE in Salmonella Typhimurium lipopolysaccharide biosynthesis and interleukin-8 secretion regulation in human intestinal epithelial cells

    • Microbiological Research

    • Author(s): Ke-Chuan Wang, Chih-Hung Huang, Pei-Ru Chang, Ming-Te Huang, Shiuh-Bin Fang

      • Salmonella
      • Bacterial pathogens

  23. Weissella confusa DD_A7 pre-treatment to zebrafish larvae ameliorates the inflammation response against Escherichia coli O157:H7

    • Microbiological Research

    • Author(s): Debasish Kumar Dey, Sun Chul Kang

      • Bacterial pathogens

  24. The complete genome of lytic Salmonella phage vB_SenM-PA13076 and therapeutic potency in the treatment of lethal Salmonella Enteritidis infections in mice

    • Microbiological Research

    • Author(s): Hongduo Bao, Yan Zhou, Khashayar Shahin, Hui Zhang, Fuliang Cao, Maoda Pang, Xuhui Zhang, Shujiao Zhu, Ademola Olaniran, Stefan Schmidt, Ran Wang

      • Bacterial pathogens
      • Salmonella

  25. Transcriptomic analysis of PhoR reveals its role in regulation of swarming motility and T3SS expression in Vibrio parahaemolyticus

    • Microbiological Research

    • Author(s): Yibei Zhang, Huanhuan Liu, Dan Gu, Xingxu Lu, Xiaohui Zhou, Xiaodong Xia

      • Vibrio
      • Bacterial pathogens