Research Publications (Food Safety)

Invasive wild pigs (Sus scrofa) are a reservoir for over 100 viral, bacterial, and parasitic pathogens that are transmissible to humans, livestock, domestic animals, and wildlife in North America. Numerous historical local surveys and results from a nation-wide survey (2006-2010) indicated that wild pigs in the United States act as reservoirs for Trichinella spp. and Toxoplasma gondii, two zoonotic pathogens of importance for human and animal health.

Toxoplasma gondii and Neospora caninum are two major apicomplexan protozoan parasites with heteroxenous life cycles and worldwide distributions. The transplacental transmission of N. caninum causes bovine abortion, which resulting in serious economic losses to the dairy industry. Although T.

The intake of Toxoplasma gondii tissue cysts through raw or undercooked pork meat is one of the main infection sources for humans. Thus, surveillance is recommended to control and prevent infection in domestic pigs. However, the lack of comparative studies hampers the updating of their performance and the comparison of seroprevalence data.

Bromodomain (BRD) is a highly conserved structural module domain, found in various proteins, including chromatin-related proteins, nucleus acetyltransferases, and transcription-associated proteins. Toxoplasma gondii, a zoonotic 

Toxoplasma gondii (T. gondii) is a zoonotic intracellular protozoan parasite that can invade, replicate and survive in almost all cells of warm-blooded animals. T. gondii infection threatens the life of the fetus or can cause morbidity in the infant. As the only definitive host of T.

Felids are definitive hosts of Toxoplasma gondii, being the only hosts that can spread the infection through oocyst shedding in their feces. The elevated presence of this parasite in the domestic cat (Felis catus), and its close contact with humans, make it necessary to obtain reliable diagnostic methods to detect positive animals as a public health measure.

Toxoplasmosis is an important zoonosis caused by the intracellular protozoan Toxoplasma gondii. This parasite is known to infect almost all warm blooded animals, and meat containing tissue cysts is one of the main sources of infection for omnivorous an carnivorous animals.

Author(s): Mariem Rouatbi, Safa Amairia, Said Samed, Mourad Rekik, Mohamed Aziz Darghouth, Afef Jeljli, Mohamed Gharbi

Author(s): Ana Flávia Minutti, Fernando Emmanuel Gonçalves Vieira, João Pedro Sasse, Thais Agostinho Martins, Mércia de Seixas, Sérgio Tosi Cardim, Luiz Daniel de Barros, João Luis Garcia

Author(s): Britta Beck, Thomas Grochow, Gereon Schares, Radu Blaga, Delphine Le Roux, Berit Bangoura, Arwid Daugschies, Simone A. Fietz

Author(s): Jitender P. Dubey, Camila K. Cerqueira-Cézar, Fernando H.A. Murata, Oliver C.H. Kwok, Dolores Hill, Yurong R. Yang, Chunlei Su

Author(s): Yoko Nagamori, Mark E. Payton, Emily Looper, Hadley Apple, Eileen M. Johnson

Author(s): Bian-hua Zhou, Liu-shu Jia, Hong-wei Guo, Hai-yan Ding, Jing-yun Yang, Hong-wei Wang

Author(s): Patrício da Silva Cardoso Barros, Caroline Martins Mota, Vanessa dos Santos Miranda, Flávia Batista Ferreira, Eliézer Lucas Pires Ramos, Silas Silva Santana, Lourenço Faria Costa, Ana Cláudia Arantes Marques Pajuaba, José Roberto Mineo, Tiago Wilson Patriarca Mineo

Author(s): Paul M. Bartley, Alison Burrells, Julio Benavides, German Canton, Joao L. Garcia, Jackie Thomson, Fransesca Chianini, Elisabeth A. Innes, Frank Katzer

Author(s): A.-C. Geuthner, M. Koethe, M. Ludewig, S. Pott, G. Schares, P. Maksimov, A. Daugschies, B. Bangoura

Author(s): Alessandra Snak, Gilberto Serighelli Junior, Giulia Von Tonnemann Pilati, Carlos Czpak Kroetz, Wagner Consoni, José Cristani, Anderson Barbosa de Moura

Author(s): Julie Alice Simon, Eva Chancel, Pauline Hubert, Dominique Aubert, Isabelle Villena, Emmanuelle Gilot-Fromont, Marie-Lazarine Poulle