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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. Regulatory Interplay of RpoS and RssB Controls Motility and Colonization in Vibrio cholerae

    • International Journal of Medical Microbiology

    • Cholera is a life-threatening diarrheal disease caused by the human pathogenic bacterium Vibrio cholerae. Regulatory elements are essential for bacterial transition between the natural aquatic environment and the human host. One of them is the alternative sigma factor RpoS and its anti-sigma factor RssB. Regulation principles seem to be conserved among RpoS/RssB interaction modes between V.

      • Bacterial pathogens
      • Vibrio

  2. Genomic and phenotypic comparison of two Salmonella Typhimurium strains responsible for consecutive salmonellosis outbreaks in New Zealand

    • International Journal of Medical Microbiology

    • Author(s): Samuel J. Bloomfield, Jackie Benschop, Anne C. Midwinter, Patrick J. Biggs, Jonathan C. Marshall, David T.S. Hayman, Philip E. Carter, Marian Price-Carter, Leah Toombs-Ruane, Holly Gray, Sara Burgess, Nigel P. French

      • Salmonella
      • Bacterial pathogens

  3. hns mRNA downregulates the expression of galU and attenuates the motility of Salmonella enterica serovar Typhi

    • International Journal of Medical Microbiology

    • Author(s): Xin Zhao, Fanfan Yang, Yurou Wang, Ying Zhang

      • Salmonella
      • Bacterial pathogens

  4. LincRNA-Cox2 regulates IL6/JAK3/STAT3 and NF-κB P65 pathway activation in Listeria monocytogenes-infected RAW264.7 cells

    • International Journal of Medical Microbiology

    • Author(s): Yurong Zhu, Ye Lu, Lin Yuan, Wei Ling, Xugan Jiang, Shengxia Chen, Bing Hu

      • Listeria monocytogenes
      • Bacterial pathogens

  5. Strain And Host-Cell Dependent Role of Type-1 Fimbriae In The Adherence Phenotype of Super-Shed Escherichia coli O157:H7

    • International Journal of Medical Microbiology

    • Author(s): Robab Katani, Indira T. Kudva, Sreenidhi Srinivasan, Judith B. Stasko, Megan Schilling, Lingling Li, Rebecca Cote, Chitrita DebRoy, Terrance M. Arthur, Evgeni V. Sokurenko, Vivek Kapur

      • Bacterial pathogens

  6. Prevalence, genomic characteristics, and transmission dynamics of mcr-1-positive Salmonella enterica Typhimurium from patients with infectious diarrhea

    • International Journal of Medical Microbiology

    • Author(s): Cong Shen, Furong Ma, Suiyan Deng, Lan-Lan Zhong, Mohamed Abd El-Gawad El-Sayed Ahmed, Guili Zhang, Bin Yan, Min Dai, Fan Yang, Yong Xia, Guo-Bao Tian

      Background
      Previous studies reported the prevalence of mcr-1 among clinical infected Salmonella isolates in China. However, the transmission dynamics of mcr-1 in different ecological niches were not well investigated. Our objective is to exhibit the transmission dynamics of mcr-1 in Salmonella.

      • Bacterial pathogens
      • Salmonella

  7. Live attenuated Salmonella Typhimurium with monophosphoryl lipid A retains ability to induce T-cell and humoral immune responses against heterologous polysaccharide of Shigella flexneri 2a

    • International Journal of Medical Microbiology

    • Author(s): Qing Liu, Huali Su, Xiaoping Bian, Shifeng Wang, Qingke Kong

      • Salmonella
      • Shigella
      • Bacterial pathogens

  8. The EngCP endo α-N-acetylgalactosaminidase is a virulence factor involved in clostridium perfringens gas gangrene infections

    • International Journal of Medical Microbiology

    • Author(s): Jackie K. Cheung, Vicki Adams, Danielle D’Souza, Meagan James, Christopher J. Day, Michael P. Jennings, Dena Lyras, Julian I. Rood

      • Bacterial pathogens
      • Clostridium perfringens

  9. Susceptibility of aging mice to listeriosis: Role of anti-inflammatory responses with enhanced Treg-cell expression of CD39/CD73 and Th-17 cells

    • International Journal of Medical Microbiology

    • Author(s): M. Samiul Alam, Christopher Cavanaugh, Marion Pereira, Uma Babu, Kristina Williams

      • Listeria monocytogenes
      • Bacterial pathogens

  10. Escherichia coli strains producing a novel Shiga toxin 2 subtype circulate in China

    • International Journal of Medical Microbiology

    • Author(s): Xi Yang, Xiangning Bai, Ji Zhang, Hui Sun, Shanshan Fu, Ruyue Fan, Xiaohua He, Flemming Scheutz, Andreas Matussek, Yanwen Xiong

      • Bacterial pathogens

  11. Untargeted accurate identification of highly pathogenic bacteria directly from blood culture flasks

    • International Journal of Medical Microbiology

    • Author(s): Erwin M. Berendsen, Evgeni Levin, René Braakman, Andrei Prodan, Hans C. van Leeuwen, Armand Paauw

      • Yersinia
      • Bacterial pathogens

  12. Over-expression of Tgs1 in Mycobacterium marinum enhances virulence in adult zebrafish

    • International Journal of Medical Microbiology

    • Author(s): Ding-qian Liu, Jun-li Zhang, Zhi-fen Pan, Jun-tao Mai, Heng-jun Mei, Yue Dai, Lu Zhang, Qing-zhong Wang

      • Bacterial pathogens

  13. Transcriptomic analysis of smooth versus rough Brucella melitensis Rev.1 vaccine strains reveals insights into virulence attenuation

    • International Journal of Medical Microbiology

    • Author(s): Mali Salmon-Divon, David Kornspan

      • Bacterial pathogens

  14. Elicitation of Th1/Th2 related responses in mice by chitosan nanoparticles loaded with Brucella abortus malate dehydrogenase, outer membrane proteins 10 and 19

    • International Journal of Medical Microbiology

    • Author(s): Soojin Shim, Sang Hee Soh, Young Bin Im, Hyun-Eui Park, Chong-Su Cho, Suk Kim, Han Sang Yoo

      • Bacterial pathogens

  15. Biogenesis and function of the autotransporter adhesins YadA, intimin and invasin

    • International Journal of Medical Microbiology

    • Author(s): Karolin Leibiger, Jonas Malte Schweers, Monika Schütz

      • Yersinia
      • Bacterial pathogens
      • Bacterial pathogens
      • Yersinia

  16. Bacterial adhesion and host cell factors leading to effector protein injection by type III secretion system

    • International Journal of Medical Microbiology

    • Author(s): Erwin Bohn, Michael Sonnabend, Kristina Klein, Ingo B. Autenrieth

      • Bacterial pathogens
      • Yersinia
      • Yersinia
      • Shigella
      • Bacterial pathogens
      • Salmonella
      • Shigella

  17. Diversity of peptidoglycan structure—Modifications and their physiological role in resistance in antibiotic producers

    • International Journal of Medical Microbiology

    • Author(s): Sandra Unsleber, Wolfgang Wohlleben, Evi Stegmann

      • Antibiotic residues
      • Chemical contaminants

  18. Immunogenic potential and protective efficacy of a sptP deletion mutant of Salmonella Enteritidis as a live vaccine for chickens against a lethal challenge

    • International Journal of Medical Microbiology

    • Author(s): Yaxin Guo, Ying Xu, Xilong Kang, Dan Gu, Yang Jiao, Chuang Meng, Peipei Tang, Xiaohai Wang, Cuiying Huang, Shizhong Geng, Xinan Jiao, Zhiming Pan

      • Bacterial pathogens
      • Salmonella
      • Salmonella
      • Bacterial pathogens

  19. Rapid diagnosis of bacterial meningitis by nanopore 16S amplicon sequencing: A pilot study

    • International Journal of Medical Microbiology

    • Author(s): Jangsup Moon, Narae Kim, Tae-Joon Kim, Jin-Sun Jun, Han Sang Lee, Hye-Rim Shin, Soon-Tae Lee, Keun-Hwa Jung, Kyung-Il Park, Ki-Young Jung, Manho Kim, Sang Kun Lee, Kon Chu

  20. Molecular typing and in vitro resistance of Cryptococcus neoformans clinical isolates obtained in Germany between 2011 and 2017

    • International Journal of Medical Microbiology

    • Author(s): Regina Selb, Vidmante Fuchs, Barbara Graf, Axel Hamprecht, Michael Hogardt, Ludwig Sedlacek, Roman Schwarz, Evgeny A. Idelevich, Sören L. Becker, Jürgen Held, Claus P. Küpper-Tetzel, Ilka McCormick-Smith, Daniela Heckmann, Jasmin Gerkrath, Chang-Ok Han, Dunja Wilmes, Volker Rickerts

  21. The prevalence of Staphylococcus aureus with mucoid phenotype in the airways of patients with cystic fibrosis—A prospective study

    • International Journal of Medical Microbiology

    • Author(s): Farina E. Lennartz, Bianca Schwartbeck, Angelika Dübbers, Jörg Große-Onnebrink, Christina Kessler, Peter Küster, Holger Schültingkemper, Georg Peters, Barbara C. Kahl

      • Staphylococcus aureus
      • Bacterial pathogens

  22. Enhanced microbiological surveillance reveals that temporal case clusters contribute to the high rates of campylobacteriosis in a model agroecosystem

    • International Journal of Medical Microbiology

    • Available online 28 April 2019

      Author(s): G. Douglas Inglis, Valerie F. Boras, Andrew L. Webb, Vivien V. Suttorp, Pamela Hodgkinson, Eduardo N. Taboada

      • Campylobacter
      • Bacterial pathogens

  23. A Small Non-Coding RNA Facilitates Brucella melitensis Intracellular Survival by Regulating the Expression of Virulence Factor

    • International Journal of Medical Microbiology

    • Available online 19 April 2019

      Author(s): Yufei Wang, Yuehua Ke, Cuijuan Duan, Xueping Ma, Qinfang Hao, Lijie Song, Xiaojin Guo, Tao Sun, Wei Zhang, Jing Zhang, Yiwen Zhao, Zhijun Zhong, Xiaoli Yang, Zeliang Chen

      • Bacterial pathogens

  24. Comprehensive proteomic analysis and pathogenic role of membrane vesicles of Listeria monocytogenes serotype 4b reveals proteins associated with virulence and their possible interaction with host

    • International Journal of Medical Microbiology

    • Available online 28 March 2019

      Author(s): Raman Karthikeyan, Pratapa Gayathri, Paramasamy Gunasekaran, Medicharla V. Jagannadham, Jeyaprakash Rajendhran

      • Listeria monocytogenes
      • Bacterial pathogens

  25. Virulence-related genes are associated with clinical and nutritional outcomes of Shigella/Enteroinvasive Escherichia coli pathotype infection in children from Brazilian semiarid region: a community case-control study

    • International Journal of Medical Microbiology

    • Available online 31 January 2019

      Author(s): Mariana Bona, Pedro Henrique Medeiros, Ana Karolina Santos, Thiago Freitas, Mara Prata, Herlice Veras, Marília Amaral, Daniel Oliveira, Alexandre Havt, Aldo Ângelo Lima

      • Bacterial pathogens
      • Shigella