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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. Molecular Detection, Serotyping, and Antibiotic Resistance of Shiga Toxigenic Escherichia coli Isolated from She-Camels and In-Contact Humans in Egypt

    • Antibiotics

    • This study aims to determine the prevalence of STEC in she-camels suffering from mastitis in semi-arid regions by using traditional culture methods and then confirming it with Serological and molecular techniques in milk samples, camel feces, as well as human stool samples for human contacts. In addition, an antibiotic susceptibility profile for these isolates was investigation.

      • Bacterial pathogens

  2. Anti-inflammatory Effect of Probiotic Limosilactobacillus reuteri KUB-AC5 Against Salmonella Infection in a Mouse Colitis Model

    • Frontiers in Microbiology

    • Acute non-typhoidal salmonellosis (NTS) caused by Salmonella enterica Typhimurium (STM) is among the most prevalent of foodborne diseases. A global rising of antibiotic resistance strains of STM raises an urgent need for alternative methods to control this important pathogen. Major human food animals which harbor STM in their gut are cattle, swine, and poultry.

      • Salmonella
      • Bacterial pathogens

  3. Genomic Investigation of Antimicrobial-Resistant Salmonella enterica Isolates From Dead Chick Embryos in China

    • Frontiers in Microbiology

    • Salmonella spp. is recognized as an important zoonotic pathogen. The emergence of antimicrobial resistance in Salmonella enterica poses a great public health concern worldwide. While the knowledge on the incidence and the characterization of different S. enterica serovars causing chick embryo death remains obscure in China. In this study, we obtained 45 S. enterica isolates from 2,139 dead chick embryo samples collected from 28 breeding chicken hatcheries in Henan province.

      • Salmonella
      • Bacterial pathogens

  4. Prevalence of tet(X4) in Escherichia coli From Duck Farms in Southeast China

    • Frontiers in Microbiology

    • Objectives

      • Bacterial pathogens

  5. Dual RNASeq Reveals NTHi-Macrophage Transcriptomic Changes During Intracellular Persistence

    • Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology

    • Nontypeable Haemophilus influenzae (NTHi) is a pathobiont which chronically colonises the airway of individuals with chronic respiratory disease and is associated with poor clinical outcomes. It is unclear how NTHi persists in the airway, however accumulating evidence suggests that NTHi can invade and persist within macrophages.

  6. Shigella sonnei, an emerging multidrug-resistant sexually transmitted pathogen in Franche-Comté, France

    • Emerging Microbes & Infections
      • Shigella
      • Bacterial pathogens

  7. Short- and long-term follow-up outcomes of patients with Brucella endocarditis: a systematic review of 207 Brucella endocarditis Cases

    • Bioengineered

    • ABSTRACT

      • Bacterial pathogens

  8. Combination of Recombinase Polymerase Amplification with SYBR Green I for naked-eye, same-day detection of Escherichia coli O157:H7 in ground meat

    • Food Control

    • Author(s): Sarah Azinheiro, Foteini Roumani, Laura Rodríguez-Lorenzo, Joana Carvalho, Marta Prado, Alejandro Garrido-Maestu

      • Bacterial pathogens

  9. Inactivation mechanism of catalytic infrared against Pseudomonas aeruginosa and its decontamination application on dry green Sichuan pepper (Zanthoxylum schinifolium)

    • Food Control

    • Author(s): Guohua Xia, Ye Li, Huihui Tao, Long Zhang, Jin Zhang, Huan Yang, Abdullateef Taiye Mustapha, Cunshan Zhou

  10. Risk estimates of hepatocellular carcinoma in Vojvodina (Serbia) related to aflatoxin M1 contaminated cheese

    • Journal of Food Composition and Analysis

    • Author(s): Ljilja Torović, Nenad Popov, Milica Živkov-Baloš, Sandra Jakšić

      • Aflatoxins
      • Natural toxins

  11. Listeria decontamination of chicken meat with beer brewed with bacteriocin producing Saccharomyces boulardii

    • LWT

    • Author(s): Ran Li, Shiva Yassami, Eero A. Kiviniemi, Wanjin Qiao, Timo M. Takala, Per E.J. Saris

      • Bacterial pathogens

  12. Experimental and modeling studies of competitive Pb (II) and Cd (II) bioaccumulation by Aspergillus niger

    • Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology


      • Heavy Metals
      • Chemical contaminants

  13. 1H Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR)-Based Metabolome Diversity of Seabuckthorn (H. rhamnoides L.) Berries Originating from Two Geographical Regions of Indian Himalayas

    • Food Analytical Methods

    • A comprehensive analysis of crucial metabolites in seabuckthorn (Hippophae rhamnoides L.) was conducted by analyzing the methanolic extract of berries originating from 37 geographical sites of the Indian Himalayas by using 1H NMR-based metabolome profiling. The concentration of 103 metabolites was annotated, of which two, spermidine and beta-alanine, were reported for the first time in higher concentrations in berries collected from Himachal Pradesh and Jammu and Kashmir.

  14. A review on the removal of heavy metals and metalloids by constructed wetlands: bibliometric, removal pathways, and key factors

    • World Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology

    • Abstract

  15. Prevalence and Quantitative Analysis of Antibiotic Resistance Genes (ARGs) in Surface and Groundwater in Meandering Part of the Kelani River Basin in Sri Lanka

    • Water, Air, & Soil Pollution

    • Nearly 80% of the population in the Colombo district fulfill their major requirement from the Kelani river. Recent studies are interoperating: most groundwater and surface water in Sri Lanka are contaminated with waterborne pathogens and antibiotics.

  16. Botulinum Toxin Services for Neurorehabiliation: Recommendations for Challenges and Opportunities during the COVID-19 Pandemic

    • Toxins

    • The COVID-19 pandemic severely impacted the function of medical facilities and rehabilitation services worldwide, including toxin services delivering Botulinum toxin treatments for neuromuscular conditions such as spasticity, dystonia, and sialorrhea. The aim of this paper is to understand how toxin services have dealt with the situation and what strategies have been adopted to continue services.

      • Clostridium botulinum
      • Bacterial pathogens

  17. Human-Relevant Sensitivity of iPSC-Derived Human Motor Neurons to BoNT/A1 and B1

    • Toxins

    • The application of botulinum neurotoxins (BoNTs) for medical treatments necessitates a potency quantification of these lethal bacterial toxins, resulting in the use of a large number of test animals. Available alternative methods are limited in their relevance, as they are based on rodent cells or neuroblastoma cell lines or applicable for single toxin serotypes only.

      • Clostridium botulinum
      • Bacterial pathogens

  18. Genetic Background and Antibiotic Resistance Profiles of K. pneumoniae NDM-1 Strains Isolated from UTI, ABU, and the GI Tract, from One Hospital in Poland, in Relation to Strains Nationally and Worldwide

    • Genes

    • In recent years, there has been an observed increase in infections caused by carbapenem-resistant Klebsiella pneumonia (Kp) strains. The aim of this study was the phenotypic and genotypic analysis of eight K. pneumoniae NDM (Kp NDM) isolates, recovered in Poland during the years 2016 and 2018 from seven patients with urinary tract infections (UTIs), asymptomatic bacteriuria (ABU), or colonization of the gut.

      • Bacterial pathogens

  19. Effects of Incubation Time and Inoculation Level on the Stabilities of Bacteriostatic and Bactericidal Antibiotics against Salmonella Typhimurium

    • Antibiotics

    • This study was designed to evaluate the stability of chloramphenicol, erythromycin, tetracycline, cephalothin, ciprofloxacin, and tobramycin against antibiotic-sensitive Salmonella Typhimurium (ASST) and antibiotic-resistant S. Typhimurium (ARST) during the broth microdilution assay. The antimicrobial activity in association with antibiotic stability was measured by using antibiotic susceptibility, time-delayed inoculation, time-extended incubation, and inoculum effect assays.

      • Salmonella
      • Bacterial pathogens

  20. Grafting as a mitigation strategy to reduce root-to-shoot cadmium translocation in plants of Solanaceae family

    • Journal of Cleaner Production

    • Author(s): Honghong Yuan, Peidong Tai, Williamson Gustave, Fei Xue, Lizong Sun

      • Heavy Metals
      • Chemical contaminants

  21. Inhibition of Staphylococcus aureus on a laboratory medium and black peppercorns by individual and combinations of essential oil vapors

    • Food Control

    • Author(s): Jiwon Oh, Hoikyung Kim, Larry R. Beuchat, Jee-Hoon Ryu

      • Staphylococcus aureus
      • Bacterial pathogens

  22. Screening of multi-mycotoxins in fruits by ultra-performance liquid chromatography coupled to ion mobility quadrupole time-of-flight mass spectrometry

    • Food Chemistry

    • Author(s): Yingying Fan, Fengjuan Liu, Weizhong He, Qiaomei Qin, Dongqiang Hu, Aibo Wu, Weibo Jiang, Cheng Wang

  23. Norovirus transmission mitigation strategies during simulated produce harvest and packing

    • International Journal of Food Microbiology

    • Author(s): Julia S. Sobolik, Kira L. Newman, Lee-Ann Jaykus, Elizabeth A. Bihn, Juan S. Leon

      • Norovirus
      • Viruses

  24. Polyaspartic acid alleviates cadmium toxicity in rapeseed leaves by affecting cadmium translocation and cell wall fixation of cadmium

    • Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety

    • Author(s): Xiuwen Wu, Hui Tian, Li Li, Xinqi Wang

      • Heavy Metals
      • Chemical contaminants

  25. Dysregulations of miR-503-5p and Wnt/β-catenin pathway coordinate in mediating cadmium-induced kidney fibrosis

    • Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety

    • Author(s): Lixia Liang, Ke Huang, Wenya Yuan, Lili Liu, Fei Zou, Guanghai Wang

      • Heavy Metals
      • Chemical contaminants