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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. Plantaricin A reverses resistance to ciprofloxacin of multidrug‐resistant Staphylococcus aureus by inhibiting efflux pumps

    • Environmental Microbiology

    • Environmental Microbiology, EarlyView. Overexpression of Staphylococcus aureus efflux pumps is commonly associated with antibiotic resistance, causing conventional antibiotics to be unsuccessful in combating multidrug-resistant bacterial infections. Reducing the activity of the efflux pump is an urgently required to tackle this problem.

      • Bacterial pathogens
      • Staphylococcus aureus

  2. Air pollution induces Staphylococcus aureus USA300 respiratory tract colonization mediated by specific bacterial genetic responses involving the global virulence gene regulators Agr and Sae

    • Environmental Microbiology

    • Environmental Microbiology, EarlyView. Exposure to particulate matter (PM), a major component of air pollution, is associated with exacerbation of chronic respiratory disease, and infectious diseases such as community-acquired pneumonia. Although PM can cause adverse health effects through direct damage to host cells, our previous study showed that PM can also impact bacterial behaviour by promoting in vivo colonization.

      • Bacterial pathogens
      • Staphylococcus aureus

  3. Coprinuslactone protects the edible mushroom Coprinus comatus against biofilm infections by blocking both quorum-sensing and MurA

    • Environmental Microbiology

    • Abstract

      • Bacterial pathogens
      • Staphylococcus aureus

  4. Fungi associated with rocks of the Atacama Desert: taxonomy, distribution, diversity, ecology and bioprospection for bioactive compounds

    • Environmental Microbiology

    • This study assessed the diversity of cultivable rock-associated fungi from Atacama Desert. Eighty-one fungal isolates obtained were identified as 21 species from Ascomycota, sequencing different regions of fungal DNA. Cladosporium halotolerans, Penicillium chrysogenum and Penicillium citrinum were the most frequent species, which occur at least in four different altitudes. The diversity and similarity indices ranged in the fungal communities across the latitudinal gradient.

      • Bacterial pathogens
      • Staphylococcus aureus