Research Publications (Food Safety)

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.

Introduction. 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.

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.

Background Campylobacter infection is associated with impaired growth of children, even in the absence of symptoms. To examine the underlying mechanisms, we evaluated associations between Campylobacter infection, linear growth, and fecal microbial community features in a prospective birth cohort of 271 children with a high burden of diarrhea and stunting in the Amazonian lowlands of Peru.

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.

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

Publication date: Available online 23 July 2019

Source: Microbial Risk Analysis

Author(s): Ursula Gonzales-Barron, Anne Thébault, Pauline Kooh, Laurence Watier, Moez Sanaa, Vasco Cadavez

Publication date: Available online 1 February 2018

Source: Microbial Risk Analysis

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

Publication date: November 2018

, Volume 93

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

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

Publication date: 20 June 2018
, Volume 275

Author(s): Sophie Butot, Frédérique Cantergiani, Mireille Moser, Julie Jean, Anthony Lima, Lise Michot, Thierry Putallaz, Thomas Stroheker, Sophie Zuber

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

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

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

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

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.

Sara M. Pires, Christa L. Fischer-Walker, Claudio F. Lanata, Brecht Devleesschauwer, Aron J. Hall, Martyn D. Kirk, Ana S. R. Duarte, Robert E. Black, Frederick J. Angulo

Background

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.

Publication date: 2 March 2015
, Volume 196
Author(s): Marie-Josée J. Mangen , Martijn Bouwknegt , Ingrid H.M. Friesema , Juanita A. Haagsma , Laetitia M. Kortbeek , Luqman Tariq , Margaret Wilson , Wilfrid van Pelt , Arie H. Havelaar