An official website of the United States government.

Official websites use .gov
A .gov website belongs to an official government organization in the United States.

Secure .gov websites use HTTPS
A lock ( ) or https:// means you've safely connected to the .gov website. Share sensitive information only on official, secure websites.

National Agricultural Library
U.S. Department of Agriculture
  1. Home
  2. Human Nutrition and Food Safety
  3. Research Publications (Food Safety)

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.

Displaying 1 - 13 of 13

  1. Clostridium perfringens strains proliferate to high counts in the broiler small intestinal tract, in accordance with necrotic lesion severity, and sporulate in the distal intestine

    • Veterinary Microbiology

    • Clostridium (C.) perfringens is the causative agent of necrotic enteritis (NE), an important enteric disease in poultry. Although a variety of virulence factors have been identified and as such the pathogenesis is well studied, data on colonization and sporulation during passage in the intestinal tract are scarce. This study, therefore, evaluated the behaviour of C. perfringens in the different intestinal compartments of broiler chickens during a NE trial.

      • Bacterial pathogens
      • Clostridium perfringens

  2. Tracking Clostridium perfringens strains from breeding duck farm to commercial meat duck farm by multilocus sequence typing

    • Veterinary Microbiology

    • Clostridium perfringens (C. perfringens) is an important zoonotic food-borne pathogenic microorganism. Currently, there are many reports on the prevalence of C. perfringens in poultry farms, while few studies on the prevalence and infection source of C. perfringens in egg hatcheries. The present study was undertaken to investigate and track C.

      • Bacterial pathogens
      • Clostridium perfringens

  3. Prevalence and antimicrobial susceptibility of Clostridium perfringens in chickens and pigs from Beijing and Shanxi, China

    • Veterinary Microbiology

    • Author(s): Jiyun Li, Yuqing Zhou, Dawei Yang, Shan Zhang, Zhiliang Sun, Yang Wang, Shaolin Wang, Congming Wu

      • Bacterial pathogens
      • Clostridium perfringens

  4. Prevalence of Clostridium difficile and Clostridium perfringens in Swiss horses with and without gastrointestinal disease and microbiota composition in relation to Clostridium difficile shedding

    • Veterinary Microbiology

    • Author(s): A. Schoster, T. Kunz, M. Lauper, C. Graubner, S. Schmitt, J.S. Weese

      Abstract

      Overgrowth of enteric clostridia in dysbiosis in horses with colic is presumed but scarcely investigated. The objective was to provide prevalence data of Clostridium difficile and Clostridium perfringens in horses with and without gastrointestinal disease in Switzerland, and investigate microbiota differences between C. difficile shedders and non-shedders.

      • Clostridium perfringens
      • Bacterial pathogens

  5. Non-toxigenic strain of Clostridioides difficile Z31 reduces the occurrence of C. difficile infection (CDI) in one-day-old piglets on a commercial pig farm

    • Veterinary Microbiology

    • Available online 20 February 2019

      Author(s): C.A Oliveira Júnior, R.O.S Silva, A.P Lage, F.M Coura, C.P Ramos, A.A. Alfieri, R.M.C Guedes, F.C.F Lobato

      • Clostridium perfringens
      • Bacterial pathogens

  6. Immunization with subunits of a novel pilus produced by virulent Clostridium perfringens strains confers partial protection against necrotic enteritis in chickens

    • Veterinary Microbiology

    • Available online 7 January 2019

      Author(s): D. Lepp, S. Ojha, I. Mehdizadeh Gohari, B. Chakravarty, J.F. Prescott, J. Gong

      • Bacterial pathogens
      • Clostridium perfringens

  7. Clostridium perfringens-mediated necrotic enteritis is not influenced by the pre-existing microbiota but is promoted by large changes in the post-challenge microbiota

    • Veterinary Microbiology

    • Publication date: December 2018

      , Volume 227

      Author(s): Jake A. Lacey, Dragana Stanley, Anthony L. Keyburn, Mark Ford, Honglei Chen, Priscilla Johanesen, Dena Lyras, Robert J. Moore

      • Clostridium perfringens
      • Bacterial pathogens

  8. Necrotic enteritis locus 1 diguanylate cyclase and phosphodiesterase (cyclic-di-GMP) gene mutation attenuates virulence in an avian necrotic enteritis isolate of Clostridium perfringens

    • Veterinary Microbiology

    • Publication date: Available online 19 July 2017


      Author(s): Valeria R. Parreira, Shivani Ojha, Dion Lepp, Iman Mehdizadeh Gohari, Hongzhuan Zhou, Leonardo Susta, Jianhua Gong, John F. Prescott

      • Clostridium perfringens
      • Bacterial pathogens

  9. A Canine-specific Probiotic Product in Treating Acute or Intermittent Diarrhea in Dogs: A Double-blind Placebo-controlled Efficacy Study

    • Veterinary Microbiology

    • Publication date: Available online 17 November 2016


      Author(s): Carlos Gómez-Gallego, Jouni Junnila, Sofia Männikkö, Pirkko Hämeenoja, Elisa Valtonen, Seppo Salminen, Shea Beasley

      • Bacterial pathogens
      • Clostridium perfringens

  10. The adherent abilities of Clostridium perfringens strains are critical for the pathogenesis of avian necrotic enteritis

    • Veterinary Microbiology

    • Publication date: Available online 31 October 2016


      Author(s): Ben Wade, Anthony L. Keyburn, Volker Haring, Mark Ford, Julian I. Rood, Robert J. Moore

      • Bacterial pathogens
      • Clostridium perfringens

  11. Enteropathogen infections in canine puppies: (Co-)occurrence, clinical relevance and risk factors

    • Veterinary Microbiology

    • Publication date: 15 November 2016
      , Volume 195

      Author(s): Mirjam Duijvestijn, Lapo Mughini-Gras, Nancy Schuurman, Wim Schijf, Jaap A. Wagenaar, Herman Egberink

      • Giardia lamblia
      • Bacterial pathogens
      • Parasites
      • Campylobacter
      • Clostridium perfringens

  12. Binding of Clostridium perfringens to collagen correlates with the ability to cause necrotic enteritis in chickens

    • Veterinary Microbiology

    • Publication date: Available online 30 September 2015

      Author(s): B. Wade, A.L. Keyburn, T. Seemann, J.I. Rood, R.J. Moore

      • Clostridium perfringens
      • Bacterial pathogens

  13. Animal models to study the pathogenesis of human and animal Clostridium perfringens infections

    • Veterinary Microbiology

    • Publication date: 31 August 2015
      , Volume 179, Issues 1–2
      Author(s): Francisco A. Uzal, Bruce A. McClane, Jackie K. Cheung, James Theoret, Jorge P. Garcia, Robert J. Moore, Julian I. Rood

      • Clostridium perfringens
      • Bacterial pathogens