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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. Pervasive Environmental Contamination with Human Feces Results in High Prevalence of Zoonotic Sarcocystis Infection in Pigs in the Punjab, India

    • Journal of Parasitology

    • Three species of Sarcocystis—S. miescheriana, S. suihominis, and S. porcifelis—have been recorded from pigs (Sus scrofa). Among these 3 species, the zoonotic species S. suihominis is of paramount importance and an important food safety issue. Previous studies indicate prevalence of porcine Sarcocystis species in India, but molecular evidence, among other evidence, is required for proper species differentiation.

  2. The Improvement of Texture and Quality of Minimally Processed Litchi Fruit Using Various Calcium Salts

    • Journal of Food Processing and Preservation

  3. Influence of food handlers' compliance with procedures of poultry carcasses contamination: A case study concerning evisceration in broiler slaughterhouses

    • Food Control

    • Publication date: October 2016
      , Volume 68

      Author(s): Ewa Pacholewicz, Sri Aika Sura Barus, Arno Swart, Arie H. Havelaar, Len J.A. Lipman, Pieternel A. Luning

      • Campylobacter
      • Bacterial pathogens

  4. Biogenic amine inhibition and quality protection of Harbin dry sausages by inoculation with Staphylococcus xylosus and Lactobacillus plantarum

    • Food Control

    • Publication date: October 2016
      , Volume 68

      Author(s): Qinxiu Sun, Qian Chen, Fangfei Li, Dongmei Zheng, Baohua Kong

      • Staphylococcus aureus
      • Bacterial pathogens

  5. Simultaneous detection of E. coli K12 and S. aureus Using a Continuous Flow Multijunction Biosensor

    • Journal of Food Science

    • Abstract

      • Staphylococcus aureus
      • Bacterial pathogens

  6. Ultraviolet-C Light Sanitization of English Cucumber (Cucumis sativus) Packaged in Polyethylene Film

    • Journal of Food Science

    • Abstract

      • Bacterial pathogens

  7. Survey of Pathogens Isolated from Mussels Perna Perna Collected in Rocky Shore and Fishmarket of Niterói, RJ, and Their Respective Resistance Profile to Antimicrobial Drugs

    • Journal of Food Quality

    • Abstract

      • Vibrio
      • Bacterial pathogens

  8. Immunological Characterization and Neutralizing Ability of Monoclonal Antibodies Directed Against Botulinum Neurotoxin Type H

    • The Journal of Infectious Diseases

    • Background. Only Clostridium botulinum strain IBCA10-7060 produces the recently described novel botulinum neurotoxin type H (BoNT/H). BoNT/H (N-terminal two-thirds most homologous to BoNT/F and C-terminal one-third most homologous to BoNT/A) requires antitoxin to toxin ratios ≥1190:1 for neutralization by existing antitoxins. Hence, more potent and safer antitoxins against BoNT/H are needed.

      • Clostridium botulinum
      • Bacterial pathogens

  9. Phenotypic and Genotypic Alterations of Durancin GL-Resistant Enterococcus durans Strains

    • Foodborne Pathogens and Disease

    • Online Ahead of Print.

  10. Toxins, Vol. 8, Pages 118: Application of LC-MS/MS MRM to Determine Staphylococcal Enterotoxins (SEB and SEA) in Milk

    • Toxins

    • Staphylococcus aureus is one of the important aetiological agents of food intoxications in Europe and can cause gastro-enteritis through the production of various staphylococcal enterotoxins (SEs) in foods. Due to their stability and ease of production and dissemination, some SEs have also been studied as potential agents for bioterrorism. Therefore, specific and accurate analytical tools are required to detect and quantify SEs.

      • Staphylococcus aureus
      • Bacterial pathogens

  11. Aflatoxin M1 in raw and UHT cow milk collected in Bosnia and Herzegovina and Croatia

    • Food Control

    • Publication date: October 2016
      , Volume 68

      Author(s): Nina Bilandžić, Sanin Tanković, Vedrana Jelušić, Ivana Varenina, Božica Solomun Kolanović, Đurđica Božić Luburić, Željko Cvetnić

      • Aflatoxins
      • Natural toxins

  12. Fabrication of PDMS surfaces with micro patterns and the effect of pattern sizes on bacteria adhesion

    • Food Control

    • Publication date: October 2016
      , Volume 68

      Author(s): Naiyan Lu, Wei Zhang, Yuyan Weng, Xiaoxia Chen, Yao Cheng, Peng Zhou

      • Staphylococcus aureus
      • Bacterial pathogens

  13. Matrix-Matching as an Improvement Strategy for the Detection of Pesticide Residues

    • Journal of Food Science

    • Abstract

      • Pesticide residues
      • Chemical contaminants

  14. Evaluation of Antioxidant or Prooxidant Properties of Selected Amino Acids Using In Vitro Assays and in Oil-in-Water Emulsions Under Riboflavin Sensitization

    • Journal of Food Science

    • Abstract

  15. Carotenoids of indigenous citrus species from Aceh and its in vitro antioxidant, antidiabetic and antibacterial activities

    • European Food Research and Technology

    • Abstract

      • Staphylococcus aureus
      • Bacterial pathogens

  16. Curcumin Reduces the Motility of Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium by Binding to the Flagella thereby Leading to Flagellar Fragility and Shedding

    • Journal of Bacteriology

    • One of the important virulence properties of the pathogen is its ability to travel to a favorable environment, cross the viscous mucus barrier (intestinal barrier for enteric pathogen) and reach the epithelia to initiate the pathogenesis with the help of an appendage like flagella. Nonetheless, flagella can act as an "Achilles heel", revealing the pathogen's presence to the host through the stimulation of innate and adaptive immune responses.

      • Salmonella
      • Bacterial pathogens

  17. Diversity of Clinical and Environmental Isolates of Vibrio cholerae in Natural Transformation and Contact-Dependent Bacterial Killing Indicative of Type VI Secretion System Activity [Environmental Microbiology]

    • Applied and Environmental Microbiology

    • The bacterial pathogen Vibrio cholerae can occupy both the human gut and aquatic reservoirs, where it may colonize chitinous surfaces that induce the expression of factors for three phenotypes: chitin utilization, DNA uptake by natural transformation, and contact-dependent bacterial killing via a type VI secretion system (T6SS).

      • Vibrio
      • Bacterial pathogens

  18. Transcriptional Repression of the VC2105 Protein by Vibrio FadR Suggests that It Is a New Auxiliary Member of the fad Regulon [Genetics and Molecular Biology]

    • Applied and Environmental Microbiology

    • Recently, our group along with others reported that the Vibrio FadR regulatory protein is unusual in that, unlike the prototypical fadR product of Escherichia coli, which has only one ligand-binding site, Vibrio FadR has two ligand-binding sites and represents a new mechanism for fatty acid sensing. The promoter region of the vc2105 gene, encoding a putative thioesterase, was mapped, and a putative FadR-binding site (AA CTG GTA AGA GCA CTT) was proposed.

      • Vibrio
      • Bacterial pathogens

  19. Packaging of Campylobacter jejuni into Multilamellar Bodies by the Ciliate Tetrahymena pyriformis [Environmental Microbiology]

    • Applied and Environmental Microbiology

    • Campylobacter jejuni is the leading cause of bacterial gastroenteritis worldwide. Transmission to humans occurs through consumption of contaminated food or water. The conditions affecting the persistence of C. jejuni in the environment are poorly understood. Some protozoa package and excrete bacteria into multilamellar bodies (MLBs). Packaged bacteria are protected from deleterious conditions, which increases their survival. We hypothesized that C.

      • Campylobacter
      • Bacterial pathogens

  20. Isolation and Structural Elucidation of Brevibacillin, an Antimicrobial Lipopeptide from Brevibacillus laterosporus That Combats Drug-Resistant Gram-Positive Bacteria [Food Microbiology]

    • Applied and Environmental Microbiology

    • A new environmental bacterial strain exhibited strong antimicrobial characteristics against methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, vancomycin-resistant strains of Enterococcus faecalis and Lactobacillus plantarum, and other Gram-positive bacteria. The producer strain, designated OSY-I1, was determined to be Brevibacillus laterosporus via morphological, biochemical, and genetic analyses.

      • Listeria monocytogenes
      • Staphylococcus aureus
      • Antibiotic residues
      • Bacterial pathogens
      • Chemical contaminants
      • Bacillus cereus

  21. Visualizing the Translocation and Localization of Bacterial Type III Effector Proteins by Using a Genetically Encoded Reporter System [Methods]

    • Applied and Environmental Microbiology

    • Bacterial type III secretion system (T3SS) effector proteins are critical determinants of infection for many animal and plant pathogens. However, monitoring of the translocation and delivery of these important virulence determinants has proved to be technically challenging. Here, we used a genetically engineered LOV (light-oxygen-voltage) sensing domain derivative to monitor the expression, translocation, and localization of bacterial T3SS effectors.

      • Shigella
      • Bacterial pathogens

  22. Evaluation of a Parchment Document, the 13th Century Incorporation Charter for the City of Krakow, Poland, for Microbial Hazards [Environmental Microbiology]

    • Applied and Environmental Microbiology

    • The literature of environmental microbiology broadly discusses issues associated with microbial hazards in archives, but these publications are mainly devoted to paper documents. There are few articles on historical parchment documents, which used to be very important for the development of literature and the art of writing. These studies present a broad spectrum of methods for the assessment of biodeterioration hazards of the parchment document in question.

      • Bacillus cereus

  23. Determination of multi-mycotoxin occurrence in maize based porridges from selected regions of Tanzania by liquid chromatography tandem mass spectrometry (LC-MS/MS), a longitudinal study

    • Food Control

    • Publication date: October 2016
      , Volume 68

      Author(s): Patrick A. Geary, Gaoyun Chen, Martin E. Kimanya, Candida P. Shirima, Michalina Oplatowska-Stachowiak, Christopher T. Elliott, Michael N. Routledge, Yun Yun Gong

      • Aflatoxins
      • Mycotoxins
      • Natural toxins

  24. Does antibiotic resistance influence shiga-toxigenic Escherichia coli O26 and O103 survival to stress environments?

    • Food Control

    • Publication date: October 2016
      , Volume 68

      Author(s): Mastura Akhtar, Alice Maserati, Francisco Diez-Gonzalez, Fernando Sampedro

      • Enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli
      • Bacterial pathogens

  25. The occurrence and effect of unit operations for dairy products processing on the fate of aflatoxin M1: A review

    • Food Control

    • Publication date: October 2016
      , Volume 68

      Author(s): Fernanda Bovo Campagnollo, Karina C. Ganev, Amin Mousavi Khaneghah, Jéssica B. Portela, Adriano G. Cruz, Daniel Granato, Carlos H. Corassin, Carlos Augusto F. Oliveira, Anderson S. Sant'Ana

      • Aflatoxins
      • Natural toxins