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Using (meta)genomics to improve food quality and safety

Objective

Use genomics to enhance understanding of the foodborne pathogen epidemiology and improve accuracy of microbial subtype functional characterization.To investigate factors governing pathogenic potential in Bacillus cereus group.To characterize the associations between genetic and phenotypic antimicrobial resistance in foodborne pathogens.Identify associations between production, processing and sanitizing procedures and microbiomes/resistomes in the food supply chain.

Investigators
Kovac, Jasna
Institution
Pennsylvania State University
Start date
2018
End date
2023
Funding Source
Nat'l. Inst. of Food and Agriculture
Project number
PEN04646
Accession number
1015787
Categories
Bacterial Pathogens
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