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 - 14 of 14

  1. Prioritization of vegetable-borne biological hazards in Argentina using a multicriteria decision analysis tool

    • Food Science and Technology International

    • Vegetables, especially those eaten raw, have been implicated in several foodborne disease outbreaks. Since multiple vegetable matrices and hazards are involved, risk managers have to prioritize those with the greatest impact on public health to design control strategies. In this study, a scientific-based risk ranking of foodborne pathogens transmitted by leafy green vegetables in Argentina was performed.

      • Bacterial pathogens
      • Campylobacter
      • Escherichia coli O157:H7
      • Salmonella
      • Shigella
      • Yersinia
      • Parasites
      • Cryptosporidium parvum
      • Giardia lamblia
      • Toxoplasma gondii
      • Viruses
      • Hepatitis
      • Norovirus

  2. Improved diagnosis of gastrointestinal infections using a semi-automated multiplex real-time PCR for detection of enteropathogens

    • Microbiology

    • The identification of enteropathogens is critical for the clinical management of patients with suspected gastrointestinal infection. The FLOW multiplex PCR system (FMPS) is a semi-automated platform (FLOW System, Roche) for multiplex real-time PCR analysis.

      • Campylobacter
      • Norovirus
      • Salmonella
      • Shigella
      • Giardia lamblia
      • Cryptosporidium parvum
      • Bacterial pathogens
      • Parasites
      • Viruses

  3. Foodborne Outbreaks of Microbial Infection from Fresh Produce in Europe And North America: A Systematic Review of Data from This Millennium

    • International Journal of Food Science & Technology

    • This study focuses on foodborne outbreaks of microbial infection associated with fresh produce in Europe and North America from this millennium. A total of 277 outbreaks with 44,524 individual cases were identified. Foodborne pathogens associated with the most outbreak frequency include Cryptosporidium (20.5%) in Europe and Salmonella (52.2%) in North America although Norovirus (54.3%) and Salmonella (61.3%) were associated with the number of cases in Europe and North America respectively.

      • Viruses
      • Norovirus
      • Salmonella
      • Cryptosporidium parvum
      • Bacterial pathogens
      • Parasites

  4. Detecting Foodborne Disease Outbreaks in Florida Through Consumer Complaints

    • Journal of Food Protection

    • The Florida Complaint and Outbreak Reporting System (FL-CORS) database is used by the Florida Department of Health’s Food and Waterborne Disease Program (FWDP) as one of the tools to detect foodborne disease outbreaks. We present a descriptive and spatial network analysis of the FL-CORS data collected during 2015-2018.

      • Clostridium perfringens
      • Norovirus
      • Salmonella
      • Shigella
      • Vibrio
      • Cryptosporidium parvum
      • Bacterial pathogens
      • Parasites
      • Viruses

  5. Equivalency of indirect and direct potable reuse paradigms based on a quantitative microbial risk assessment framework

    • Microbial Risk Analysis

    • Author(s): Erfaneh Amoueyan, Sajjad Ahmad, Joseph N.S. Eisenberg, Daniel Gerrity

      • Cryptosporidium parvum
      • Norovirus
      • Bacterial pathogens
      • Parasites
      • Viruses
      • Salmonella

  6. Human health impact of non-potable reuse of distributed wastewater and greywater treated by membrane bioreactors

    • Microbial Risk Analysis

    • Publication date: Available online 1 February 2018

      Source: Microbial Risk Analysis

      Author(s): Mary E. Schoen, Michael A. Jahne, Jay Garland

      • Campylobacter
      • Norovirus
      • Cryptosporidium parvum
      • Bacterial pathogens
      • Campylobacter
      • Parasites
      • Norovirus
      • Viruses
      • Cryptosporidium parvum
      • Bacterial pathogens
      • Parasites
      • Viruses

  7. Occurrence of selected viral, bacterial and protozoan pathogens in fresh juices and smoothies in Prague, Czech Republic

    • Food Control

    • Publication date: November 2018

      , Volume 93

      Author(s): Radka Dziedzinska, Monika Moravkova, Jakub Hrdy, Iva Slana, Hana Vlkova, Hana Kunstovna, Petra Vasickova

      • Norovirus
      • Yersinia
      • Staphylococcus aureus
      • Giardia lamblia
      • Cryptosporidium parvum
      • Bacterial pathogens
      • Parasites
      • Viruses

  8. Contribution of the FilmArray® Gastrointestinal Panel in the laboratory diagnosis of gastroenteritis in a cohort of children: a two-year prospective study

    • International Journal of Medical Microbiology

    • Publication date: Available online 2 May 2018


      Author(s): Adriana Calderaro, Monica Martinelli, Mirko Buttrini, Sara Montecchini, Silvia Covan, Sabina Rossi, Francesca Ferraglia, Paolo Montagna, Federica Pinardi, Sandra Larini, Maria Cristina Arcangeletti, Maria Cristina Medici, Carlo Chezzi, Flora De Conto

      • Campylobacter
      • Norovirus
      • Yersinia
      • Shigella
      • Vibrio
      • Giardia lamblia
      • Cryptosporidium parvum
      • Bacterial pathogens
      • Parasites
      • Viruses

  9. Risk-based enteric pathogen reduction targets for non-potable and direct potable use of roof runoff, stormwater, and greywater

    • Microbial Risk Analysis

    • Publication date: Available online 2 March 2017
      Source:Microbial Risk Analysis

      Author(s): Mary E. Schoen, Nicholas J. Ashbolt, Michael A. Jahne, Jay Garland

      • Cryptosporidium parvum
      • Campylobacter
      • Giardia lamblia
      • Norovirus
      • Parasites
      • Bacterial pathogens
      • Viruses

  10. Simulation of enteric pathogen concentrations in locally-collected greywater and wastewater for microbial risk assessments

    • Microbial Risk Analysis

    • Publication date: Available online 9 November 2016
      Source:Microbial Risk Analysis

      Author(s): Michael A. Jahne, Mary E. Schoen, Jay L. Garland, Nicholas J. Ashbolt

      • Cryptosporidium parvum
      • Giardia lamblia
      • Bacterial pathogens
      • Norovirus
      • Viruses
      • Parasites
      • Campylobacter

  11. Disease burden due to gastrointestinal pathogens in a wastewater system in Kampala, Uganda

    • Microbial Risk Analysis

    • Publication date: December 2016
      Source:Microbial Risk Analysis, Volume 4

      Author(s): Samuel Fuhrimann, Mirko S. Winkler, Michelle Stalder, Charles B. Niwagaba, Mohammed Babu, Narcis B. Kabatereine, Abdullah A. Halage, Jürg Utzinger, Guéladio Cissé, Maarten Nauta

      • Campylobacter
      • Cryptosporidium parvum
      • Bacterial pathogens
      • Norovirus
      • Viruses
      • Parasites

  12. Evaluation of Luminex xTAG Gastrointestinal Pathogen Panel Assay for Detection of Multiple Diarrheal Pathogens in Fecal Samples in Vietnam [Bacteriology]

    • Journal of Clinical Microbiology

    • Diarrheal disease is a complex syndrome that remains a leading cause of global childhood morbidity and mortality. The diagnosis of enteric pathogens in a timely and precise manner is important for making treatment decisions and informing public health policy, but accurate diagnosis is a major challenge in industrializing countries. Multiplex molecular diagnostic techniques may represent a significant improvement over classical approaches.

      • Campylobacter
      • Norovirus
      • Shigella
      • Cryptosporidium parvum
      • Bacterial pathogens
      • Parasites
      • Viruses

  13. Environmental Factors Associated with High Fly Densities and Diarrhea in Vellore, India [Public and Environmental Health Microbiology]

    • Applied and Environmental Microbiology

    • Diarrhea causes significant morbidity and mortality in Indian children under 5 years of age. Flies carry enteric pathogens and may mediate foodborne infections. In this study, we characterized fly densities as a determinant of infectious diarrhea in a longitudinal cohort of 160 urban and 80 rural households with 1,274 individuals (27% under 5 years of age) in Vellore, India. Household questionnaires on living conditions were completed at enrollment.

      • Norovirus
      • Shigella
      • Vibrio
      • Giardia lamblia
      • Cryptosporidium parvum
      • Bacterial pathogens
      • Parasites
      • Viruses

  14. Aetiology of acute paediatric gastroenteritis in Bulgaria during summer months: prevalence of the viral infections [STANDARD]

    • Journal of Medical Microbiology

    • Paediatric acute gastroenteritis is a global public health problem.Comprehensive laboratory investigation for viral, bacterial and parasitic agents is helpful for improving management of acute gastroenteritis in health care settings and for monitoring and controlling the spread of these infections.Our study aimed to investigate the role of various pathogens in infantile diarrhoea in Bulgaria outside the classical winter epidemics of rotavirus and norovirus.Stool samples from 115 hospitalized

      • Giardia lamblia
      • Cryptosporidium parvum
      • Campylobacter
      • Norovirus
      • Shigella