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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. Human Oral Buccal Microbiomes Are Associated with Farmworker Status and Azinphos-Methyl Agricultural Pesticide Exposure [Environmental Microbiology]

    • Applied and Environmental Microbiology

    • In a longitudinal agricultural community cohort sampling of 65 adult farmworkers and 52 adult nonfarmworkers, we investigated agricultural pesticide exposure-associated changes in the oral buccal microbiota. We found a seasonally persistent association between the detected blood concentration of the insecticide azinphos-methyl and the taxonomic composition of the buccal swab oral microbiome.

      • Chemical contaminants
      • Pesticide residues

  2. Salmonella enterica Serovar Kentucky Flagella Are Required for Broiler Skin Adhesion and Caco-2 Cell Invasion [Food Microbiology]

    • Applied and Environmental Microbiology

    • Nontyphoidal Salmonella strains are the main source of pathogenic bacterial contamination in the poultry industry. Recently, Salmonella enterica serovar Kentucky has been recognized as the most prominent serovar on carcasses in poultry-processing plants. Previous studies showed that flagella are one of the main factors that contribute to bacterial attachment to broiler skin. However, the precise role of flagella and the mechanism of attachment are unknown.

      • Salmonella
      • Bacterial pathogens

  3. Ancient Heavy Metal Contamination in Soils as a Driver of Tolerant Anthyllis vulneraria Rhizobial Communities [Plant Microbiology]

    • Applied and Environmental Microbiology

    • Anthyllis vulneraria is a legume associated with nitrogen-fixing rhizobia that together offer an adapted biological material for mine-soil phytostabilization by limiting metal pollution. To find rhizobia associated with Anthyllis at a given site, we evaluated the genetic and phenotypic properties of a collection of 137 rhizobia recovered from soils presenting contrasting metal levels.

  4. Use of a lytic bacteriophage to control Salmonella Enteritidis in retail food

    • LWT

    • Publication date: May 2017
      Source:LWT - Food Science and Technology, Volume 78

      Author(s): Tze Young Thung, Jayasekara Mudiyanselage Krishanthi Jayarukshi Kumari Premarathne, Wei San Chang, Yuet Ying Loo, Yih Zhet Chin, Chee Hao Kuan, Chia Wanq Tan, Dayang Fredalina Basri, Che Wan Jasimah Wan Mohamed Radzi, Son Radu

      • Salmonella
      • Bacterial pathogens

  5. Shelf life improvement of the loaf bread using allyl, phenyl and benzyl isothiocyanates against Aspergillus parasiticus

    • LWT

    • Publication date: May 2017
      Source:LWT - Food Science and Technology, Volume 78

      Author(s): Federica Saladino, Juan Manuel Quiles, Fernando B. Luciano, Jordi Mañes, Mónica Fernández-Franzón, Giuseppe Meca

      • Natural toxins
      • Aflatoxins

  6. Detection and molecular characterisation of Livestock-Associated MRSA in raw meat on retail sale in North West England

    • Letters in Applied Microbiology

    • Abstract

      • Bacterial pathogens
      • Staphylococcus aureus

  7. Influence of electro-activated solutions of weak organic acid salts on microbial quality and overall appearance of blueberries during storage

    • Food Microbiology

    • Publication date: June 2017
      , Volume 64

      Author(s): Viacheslav Liato, Riadh Hammami, Mohammed Aïder

      • Listeria monocytogenes
      • Bacterial pathogens

  8. Effects of UV-C on antioxidant capacity, antioxidant enzyme activity and colour of fresh-cut red cabbage during storage

    • International Journal of Food Science & Technology

    • Summary

  9. How meaty? Detection and quantification of adulterants, foreign proteins and food additives in meat products

    • International Journal of Food Science & Technology

    • Summary

  10. Rapid analysis of tetracycline hydrochloride solution by attenuated total reflection terahertz time-domain spectroscopy

    • Food Chemistry

    • Publication date: 1 June 2017
      , Volume 224

      Author(s): Jianyuan Qin, Lijuan Xie, Yibin Ying

      • Chemical contaminants
      • Antibiotic residues

  11. Entry of Botulinum Neurotoxin Subtypes A1 and A2 into Neurons [Cellular Microbiology: Pathogen-Host Cell Molecular Interactions]

    • Infection and Immunity

    • Botulinum neurotoxins (BoNTs) are the most toxic proteins for humans but also are common therapies for neurological diseases. BoNTs are dichain toxins, comprising an N-terminal catalytic domain (LC) disulfide bond linked to a C-terminal heavy chain (HC) which includes a translocation domain (HN) and a receptor binding domain (HC).

      • Bacterial pathogens
      • Clostridium botulinum

  12. Listeria monocytogenes-Induced Cell Death Inhibits the Generation of Cell-Mediated Immunity [Microbial Immunity and Vaccines]

    • Infection and Immunity

    • The influence of cell death on adaptive immunity has been studied for decades. Despite these efforts, the intricacies of how various cell death pathways shape immune responses in the context of infection remain unclear, particularly with regard to more recently discovered pathways such as pyroptosis.

      • Listeria monocytogenes
      • Bacterial pathogens

  13. Calcium Enhances Bile Salt-Dependent Virulence Activation in Vibrio cholerae [Molecular Pathogenesis]

    • Infection and Immunity

    • Vibrio cholerae is the causative bacteria of the diarrheal disease cholera, but it also persists in aquatic environments, where it displays an expression profile that is distinct from that during infection. Upon entry into the host, a tightly regulated circuit coordinates the induction of two major virulence factors: cholera toxin and a toxin-coregulated pilus (TCP). It has been shown that a set of bile salts, including taurocholate, serve as host signals to activate V.

      • Vibrio
      • Bacterial pathogens

  14. Tricellular Tight Junction Protein Tricellulin Is Targeted by the Enteropathogenic Escherichia coli Effector EspG1, Leading to Epithelial Barrier Disruption [Cellular Microbiology: Pathogen-Host Cell Molecular Interactions]

    • Infection and Immunity

    • Enteropathogenic Escherichia coli (EPEC)-induced diarrhea is often associated with disruption of intestinal epithelial tight junctions. Although studies have shown alterations in the expression and localization of bicellular tight junction proteins during EPEC infections, little is known about whether tricellular tight junction proteins (tTJs) are affected. Using Caco-2 cell monolayers, we investigated if EPEC is capable of targeting the tTJ protein tricellulin.

      • Bacterial pathogens

  15. Induction of spotty liver disease in layer hens by infection with Campylobacter hepaticus

    • Veterinary Microbiology

    • Publication date: Available online 28 December 2016


      Author(s): Thi Thu Hao Van, Eltaher Elshagmani, Mian-Chee Gor, Arif Anwar, Peter C. Scott, Robert J. Moore

      • Bacterial pathogens
      • Campylobacter

  16. Recent findings in Pulsed light disinfection

    • Journal of Applied Microbiology

    • Summary

  17. High Incidence of Respiratory Involvement in a Cluster of Brucella suis-Infected Workers from a Pork Processing Plant in Argentina

    • Zoonoses and Public Health

    • Summary

      • Bacterial pathogens

  18. Inactivation mechanisms of non-thermal plasma on microbes: A review

    • Food Control

    • Publication date: May 2017
      , Volume 75

      Author(s): Xinyu Liao, Donghong Liu, Qisen Xiang, Juhee Ahn, Shiguo Chen, Xingqian Ye, Tian Ding

  19. Inactivation of Staphylococcus saprophyticus in chicken meat and purge using thermal processing, high pressure processing, gamma radiation, and ultraviolet light (254 nm)

    • Food Control

    • Publication date: May 2017
      , Volume 75

      Author(s): Christopher Sommers, Shiowshuh Sheen, O. Joseph Scullen, William Mackay

      • Bacterial pathogens
      • Staphylococcus aureus

  20. Characterizations of purple non-sulfur bacteria isolated from paddy fields, and identification of strains with potential for plant growth-promotion, greenhouse gas mitigation and heavy metal bioremediation

    • Research in Microbiology

    • Publication date: Available online 28 December 2016
      Source:

      Author(s): Jakkapan Sakpirom, Duangporn Kantachote, Tomorn Nunkaew, Eakalak Khan

  21. Antimicrobial and antibiofilm activities of procyanidins extracted from laurel wood against a selection of foodborne microorganisms

    • International Journal of Food Science & Technology

    • Summary

      • Listeria monocytogenes
      • Bacterial pathogens

  22. Edible film incorporated with chitosan and Artemisia annua oil nanoliposomes for inactivation of Escherichia coli O157:H7 on cherry tomato

    • International Journal of Food Science & Technology

    • Summary

      • Bacterial pathogens
      • Escherichia coli O157:H7

  23. Antimicrobial treatments to control Listeria monocytogenes in queso fresco

    • Food Microbiology

    • Publication date: June 2017
      , Volume 64

      Author(s): António Lourenço, Mary B. Kamnetz, Camila Gadotti, Francisco Diez-Gonzalez

      • Listeria monocytogenes
      • Bacterial pathogens

  24. Dynamic predictive model for growth of Salmonella spp. in scrambled egg mix

    • Food Microbiology

    • Publication date: June 2017
      , Volume 64

      Author(s): Lin Li, Jihan Cepeda, Jeyamkondan Subbiah, Glenn Froning, Vijay K. Juneja, Harshavardhan Thippareddi

      • Salmonella
      • Bacterial pathogens

  25. Low prevalence of Aichi virus in molluscan shellfish samples from Galicia (NW Spain)

    • Journal of Applied Microbiology

    • Abstract

      Aims

      The aim of this study was to detect and quantify Aichi virus (AiV) in shellfish from three estuaries in Galicia, the main producer of molluscs in Europe.

      • Norovirus
      • Viruses