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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. Gut Microbiome Distinguishes Patients With Epilepsy From Healthy Individuals

    • Frontiers in Microbiology
    • Objective: The gut microecosystem is the largest microecosystem in the human body and has been proven to be linked to neurological diseases. The main objective of this study was to characterize the fecal microbiome, investigate the differences between epilepsy patients and healthy controls, and evaluate the potential efficacy of the fecal microbiome as a diagnostic tool for epilepsy.

      • Shigella
      • Bacterial pathogens
  2. Diallyl Disulfide (DADS) Ameliorates Intestinal Candida albicans Infection by Modulating the Gut microbiota and Metabolites and Providing Intestinal Protection in Mice

    • Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology
    • Diallyl disulfide (DADS), a garlic extract also known as allicin, has been reported to have numerous biological activities, including anticancer, antifungal, and inflammation-inhibiting activities, among others. Although many studies have assessed whether DADS can treat Candida albicans infection in vitro, its in vivo function and the underlying mechanism are still not clear. Accumulated evidence has implicated the gut microbiota as an important factor in the colonization and invasion of C.

      • Shigella
      • Bacterial pathogens
  3. Evaluation of Th2 and Th17 Immunity-Related Factors as Indicators of Brucellosis

    • Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology
    • Objective

      Brucellosis is a common bacterial zoonotic infection, and greater than half a million new cases are diagnosed annually. This study investigates the expression of Th2 and Th17 immunity-related factors (Th2-LCR lncRNA, IL-25, TRAF3IP2, and IL-17RB) in different stages of Brucella infections.

      Material and Methods

      • Bacterial pathogens
  4. Detection of Nocardia by 16S Ribosomal RNA Gene PCR and Metagenomic Next-Generation Sequencing (mNGS)

    • Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology
    • In this study, the aim was to investigate the discriminatory power of molecular diagnostics based on mNGS and traditional 16S ribosomal RNA PCR among Nocardia species. A total of fourteen clinical isolates from patients with positive Nocardia cultures and clinical evidence were included between January 2017 and June 2020 in HeNan Provincial People’s Hospital.

      • Bacterial pathogens
  5. Molecular Network Analysis Reveals Transmission of HIV-1 Drug-Resistant Strains Among Newly Diagnosed HIV-1 Infections in a Moderately HIV Endemic City in China

    • Frontiers in Microbiology
    • Since the implementation of the “treat all” policy in China in 2016, there have been few data on the prevalence of transmitted drug resistance (TDR) in China. In this study, we describe TDR in patients newly diagnosed with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection between 2016 and 2019 in Shenyang city, China. Demographic information and plasma samples from all newly reported HIV-infected individuals in Shenyang from 2016 to 2019 were collected.

  6. Otitis Media Practice During the COVID-19 Pandemic

    • Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology
    • The global coronavirus disease-2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has changed the prevalence and management of many pediatric infectious diseases, including acute otitis media (AOM). Coronaviruses are a group of RNA viruses that cause respiratory tract infections in humans.

  7. Probing the structure and function of the protease domain of botulinum neurotoxins using single-domain antibodies

    • PLOS Pathogens
    • by Kwok-ho Lam, Jacqueline M. Tremblay, Kay Perry, Konstantin Ichtchenko, Charles B. Shoemaker, Rongsheng Jin

      • Clostridium botulinum
      • Bacterial pathogens
  8. Heavy metal pollution and associated health risk assessment of urban dust in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

    • PLOS ONE
    • by Abdulaziz G. Alghamdi, Mohamed H. EL-Saeid, Abdulhakim J. Alzahrani, Hesham M. Ibrahim

      • Heavy Metals
      • Chemical contaminants
  9. In search of autophagy biomarkers in breast cancer: Receptor status and drug agnostic transcriptional changes during autophagy flux in cell lines

    • PLOS ONE
    • by Francesca Mascia, Ilya Mazo, Wei-Lun Alterovitz, Konstantinos Karagiannis, Wells W. Wu, Rong-Fong Shen, Julia A. Beaver, V. Ashutosh Rao

  10. Phylogenetic and phenotypic characterization of two novel clade 2.3.2.1 H5N2 subtype avian influenza viruses from chickens in China

    • Infection, Genetics and Evolution
    • Author(s): Zhichuang Ge, Lijun Xu, Xiaomiao Hu, Shanshan Zhu, Ying Zhao, Yang Li, Kaituo Liu, Ruyi Gao, Xiaoquan Wang, Jiao Hu, Xiaowen Liu, Shunlin Hu, Daxin Peng, Min Gu, Xiufan Liu

      • Viruses
  11. Reduction of E. coli O157: H7 and Bacillus cereus levels in red pepper powder using dielectric barrier discharge (DBD) plasma for enhanced quality

    • Innovative Food Science & Emerging Technologies
    • Author(s): Yeon Ho Kim, Chanjae Lee, Sung-Jae Lee, Ki Sun Yoon

      • Bacterial pathogens
      • Bacillus cereus
  12. Quantitative evaluation of heavy metal pollution hazards in leachate during fermentation before municipal solid waste incineration

    • Journal of Cleaner Production
    • Author(s): Xu Chu, Yiying Jin, Zhujie Chu

  13. The concerning food safety issue of pyrrolizidine alkaloids: An overview

    • Trends in Food Science & Technology
    • Author(s): Natalia Casado, Sonia Morante-Zarcero, Isabel Sierra

      Background
      In the last years, several food alerts have identified high levels of pyrrolizidine alkaloids (PAs) in a wide variety of food products, highlighting their occurrence as a concerning food safety issue.

      • Natural toxins
  14. A hierarchical Bayesian quantitative microbiological risk assessment model for Salmonella in the sheep meat food chain

    • Food Microbiology
    • Author(s): Thomas Rawson Multiple foodborne routes of Salmonella infection have been observed; however, the majority of the literature to date has been dominated by research into the most frequently observed reservoirs, such as chicken, beef, and pork. While less commonly observed, outbreaks of Salmonella within sheep meat still occur, requiring extensive investigation by food safety inspectors.

      • Bacterial pathogens
      • Salmonella
  15. Cold plasma treated air improves the characteristic flavor of Dry-cured black carp through facilitating lipid oxidation

    • Food Chemistry
    • Author(s): Zhigang Ke, Yan Bai, Yiwen Bai, Yushan Chu, Saiqi Gu, Xingwei Xiang, Yuting Ding, Xuxia Zhou

  16. Metagenomic and proteomic approaches in elucidating aflatoxin B1 detoxification mechanisms of probiotic Lactobacillus casei Shirota towards intestine

    • Food and Chemical Toxicology
    • Author(s): Winnie-Pui-Pui Liew, Mohd-Redzwan Sabran, Leslie-Thian-Lung Than, Fauzah Abd-Ghani

      • Aflatoxins
      • Natural toxins
  17. Inactivation of hepatitis A virus and norovirus on berries by broad-spectrum pulsed light

    • International Journal of Food Microbiology
    • Author(s): Eric Jubinville, Mathilde Trudel-Ferland, Janie Amyot, Julie Jean

      • Norovirus
      • Hepatitis
      • Viruses
  18. Recent Progress on Single-Molecule Detection Technologies for Food Safety

    • Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry
    • Rapid and sensitive detection technologies for food contaminants play vital roles in food safety. Due to the complexity of the food matrix and the trace amount distribution, traditional methods often suffer from unsatisfying accuracy, sensitivity, or specificity. In past decades, single-molecule detection (SMD) has emerged as a way to realize the rapid and ultrasensitive measurement with low sample consumption, showing a great potential in food contaminants detection.

      • Pesticide residues
      • Chemical contaminants
  19. Geospatial epidemiology of Toxoplasma gondii infection in livestock, pets, and humans in China, 1984–2020

    • Parasitology Research
    • Undercooked or raw meat containing cyst-stage bradyzoites and oocyst-contaminated pets are presumed to constitute a major source of human toxoplasmosis. As the geospatial epidemiology of Toxoplasma gondii (T. gondii) infection in livestock, pets, and humans is rarely studied in China, we undertook a geospatial analysis using GIS visualization techniques.

      • Toxoplasma gondii
      • Parasites
  20. Effectiveness of a Constructed Wetland with Carbon Filtration in Reducing Pesticides Associated with Agricultural Runoff

    • Archives of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology
    • The Salinas Valley in Monterey County, California, USA, is a highly productive agricultural region. Irrigation runoff containing pesticides at concentrations toxic to aquatic organisms poses a threat to aquatic ecosystems within local watersheds.

      • Pesticide residues
      • Chemical contaminants
  21. Recent advances in sensors for detecting food pathogens, contaminants, and toxins: a review

    • European Food Research and Technology
    • Food safety being a vast global public health threat has attracted growing concern. Efficient detection techniques for food hazards are essential to ensure food safety. Various methods have been established to sense food hazards for solving food safety-related problems. However, due to trace levels of food contaminants, pathogens, and toxins, the development of efficient and reliable detection techniques has been challenging work.

      • Pesticide residues
      • Chemical contaminants
  22. A novel high-sensitive indirect competitive chemiluminescence enzyme immunoassay based on monoclonal antibody for tenuazonic acid (TeA) detection

    • European Food Research and Technology
    • Tenuazonic acid (TeA), as a naturally occurring mycotoxin found in sorghum, corn, wheat, oat, tomato, apple, rapeseed and their products, has attracted increasing attention due to its wide contamination and high dietary exposure of infants and toddlers. Traditional methods usually require large instruments and high working conditions but are not suitable for low-cost large-scale screening. Thus, a rapid, sensitive and inexpensive method for TeA detection is required.

  23. Ecological and Probabilistic Health Risk Assessment of Heavy Metals in Topsoils, Southeast of Iran

    • Bulletin of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology
    • This study aimed to assess ecological and health risk of heavy metals (HMs) in the 35 topsoils in southeastern Iran. Ecological and health risks were assessed based on the EPA method. The order of the HMs followed as: Zn > Cr>Cu>Pb>As>Cd. All samples, except As and Cu, had the moderate enrichment and low to moderate pollution, respectively. The As in both regions and Cu in the city was classified in the lack to minimal enrichment and no pollution category.

  24. Evaluation of Ultraviolet-Light (UV-A) Emitting Diodes Technology on the Reduction of Spiked Aflatoxin B1 and Aflatoxin M1 in Whole Milk

    • Food and Bioprocess Technology
    • The effectiveness of a UV-A light emitting diode system (LED) to reduce the concentrations of aflatoxin B1 and aflatoxin M1 (AFB1, AFM1) in whole milk (WM) was investigated. Irradiation experiments were conducted using an LED system operating at 365 nm. Known concentrations of aflatoxins were spiked in WM and irradiated at quantified UV doses, which was calculated based on the average volumetric intensity.

      • Aflatoxins
      • Natural toxins
  25. Assessment of Lead Origin in Forest Soils of the Czech Republic Using Isotopic Ratios

    • Water, Air, & Soil Pollution
    • Forest soils play an important role in the global ecosystem, providing many beneficial services. Protection of forests and their soils from anthropogenic impacts is therefore of utter importance to conservation efforts. Lead (Pb) is one of the most widespread anthropogenic pollutants and has been introduced into forests of the Czech Republic since medieval times, mostly from smelting, coal burning, and later also leaded gasoline.

      • Heavy Metals
      • Chemical contaminants