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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. Distribution and prevalence of antibodies to Trichinella spp. and Toxoplasma gondii in wild pigs (Sus scrofa) in the United States

    • Veterinary Parasitology
    • 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.

      • Parasites
      • Toxoplasma gondii
  2. Transcriptome profiling of Madin-Darby Bovine Kidney cells uncover differences in the susceptibility of cattle to Toxoplasma gondii and Neospora caninum

    • Veterinary Parasitology
    • 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.

      • Parasites
      • Toxoplasma gondii
  3. Optimization of the most widely used serological tests for a harmonized diagnosis of Toxoplasma gondii infection in domestic pigs

    • Veterinary Parasitology
    • 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.

      • Parasites
      • Toxoplasma gondii
  4. Giardia duodenalis trophozoites triggered bovine neutrophil extracellular traps formation dependent on P2X1 receptor and PAD4 in vitro

    • Veterinary Parasitology
    • Giardia duodenalis is an important intestinal protozoan parasite, infections of which are frequently seen in cattle and cause intermittent diarrhoea and weight loss in young animals around the world. The release of neutrophil extracellular traps (NETs) is an effector mechanism of neutrophils to fight against invading pathogens including parasites.

      • Parasites
      • Giardia lamblia
  5. Risk factors for Cryptosporidium infection in small ruminants in northern Greece

    • Veterinary Parasitology
    • The knowledge of risk factors for Cryptosporidium spp. infection in small ruminants is based on limited data. Therefore, the current research aimed to describe the prevalence and risk factors associated with the occurrence of Cryptosporidium infection in sheep and goat herds in northern Greece.

      • Parasites
      • Cryptosporidium parvum
  6. Hypothetical bromodomain-containing protein 5 is required for the growth of Toxoplasma gondii

    • Veterinary Parasitology
    • 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 

      • Parasites
      • Toxoplasma gondii
  7. Metabolomics study of cat small intestine during the early stage of Toxoplasma gondii oocyst formation identifies potential biomarkers

    • Veterinary Parasitology
    • 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.

      • Parasites
      • Toxoplasma gondii
  8. Cryptosporidium parvum downregulates miR-181d in HCT-8 cells via the p50-dependent TLRs/NF-κB pathway

    • Veterinary Parasitology
    • Cryptosporidium spp. can cause diarrhea and even death in humans and animals. Host microRNAs (miRNAs) play an important role in the post-transcriptional regulation of the innate immune response to Cryptosporidium infection. To study host miRNA activity in the innate immune response to C. parvum infection, we examined the expression of miR-181d in HCT-8 cells infected with C.

      • Parasites
      • Cryptosporidium parvum
  9. Enhanced detection of Giardia duodenalis mixed assemblage infections in pre-weaned dairy calves using next generation sequencing

    • Veterinary Parasitology
    • Giardia duodenalis is one of the most common parasitic causes of gastrointestinal illness in humans worldwide with widespread infections in mammalian hosts. It frequently infects cattle, producing a high number of cysts. Cattle can harbor both host-adapted assemblage E and human pathogenic assemblages A and B.

      • Parasites
      • Giardia lamblia
  10. Comparative performance of five recombinant and chimeric antigens in a time-resolved fluorescence immunoassay for detection of Toxoplasma gondii infection in cats

    • Veterinary Parasitology
    • 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.

      • Parasites
      • Toxoplasma gondii
  11. Toxoplasma gondii infection in wild omnivorous and carnivorous animals in Central Europe – a brief overview

    • Veterinary Parasitology
    • 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.

      • Parasites
      • Toxoplasma gondii
  12. High Toxoplasma gondii frequency of infection in the genital tract of ewes previously positive for the parasite DNA in meat, in Sidi Bouzid, Tunisia

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

      • Toxoplasma gondii
      • Parasites
  13. Prophylactic and therapeutic efficacy of clinoptilolite against Cryptosporidium parvum in experimentally challenged neonatal lambs

    • Veterinary Parasitology
    • Author(s): Ceren Dinler Ay, Huseyin Voyvoda, Pinar Alkim Ulutas, Tulin Karagenc, Bulent Ulutas

      • Cryptosporidium parvum
      • Parasites
  14. Comparison of serological and molecular techniques to detect Toxoplasma gondii in free-range chickens (Gallus gallus domesticus)

    • Veterinary Parasitology
    • 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

      • Toxoplasma gondii
      • Parasites
  15. Burden and regional distribution of Toxoplasma gondii cysts in the brain of COBB 500 broiler chickens following chronic infection with 76K strain

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

      • Toxoplasma gondii
      • Parasites
  16. Molecular detection of Eimeria species and Clostridium perfringens in poultry dust and pooled excreta of commercial broiler chicken flocks differing in productive performance

    • Veterinary Parasitology
    • Author(s): Yugal Raj Bindari, Sarbast K. Kheravii, Christine Morton, Shu-Biao Wu, Stephen W. Walkden-Brown, Priscilla F. Gerber

      • Bacterial pathogens
      • Clostridium perfringens
  17. All about Toxoplasma gondii infections in pigs: the past decade

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

      • Toxoplasma gondii
      • Parasites
      • Toxoplasma gondii
      • Parasites
  18. Prolonging and enhancing the protective efficacy of the EtMIC3-C-MAR against Eimeria tenella through delivered by attenuated Salmonella typhimurium

    • Veterinary Parasitology
    • Author(s): Ningning Zhao, Junfeng Lv, Yaru Lu, Yingying Jiang, Hongmei Li, Yumin Liu, Xiao Zhang, Xiaomin Zhao

      • Salmonella
      • Bacterial pathogens
  19. Long spelling periods are required for pasture to become free of contamination by infective larvae of Haemonchus contortus in a humid subtropical climate of São Paulo state, Brazil

    • Veterinary Parasitology
    • Author(s): Fabiana A. Almeida, Ana Cláudia A. Albuquerque, César C. Bassetto, Renan Z.C. Starling, José Gabriel G. Lins, Alessandro F.T. Amarante

  20. Wild ruminants as reservoirs of domestic livestock gastrointestinal nematodes

    • Veterinary Parasitology
    • Author(s): Carly D. Barone, Janneke Wit, Eric P. Hoberg, John S. Gilleard, Dante S. Zarlenga

  21. Development and evaluation of a loop-mediated isothermal amplification (LAMP) assay for the detection of the E198A SNP in the isotype-1 β-tubulin gene of Haemonchus contortus populations in China

    • Veterinary Parasitology
    • Author(s): Waresi Tuersong, Li He, Tao Zhu, Xin Yang, Zongze Zhang, Awais Ali Ahmad, Wenda Di, Chunqun Wang, Caixian Zhou, Hui Liu, Jian Chen, Min Hu

  22. Multilocus approach reveals discordant molecular markers and corridors for gene flow between North African populations of Fasciola hepatica

    • Veterinary Parasitology
    • Author(s): Nabil Amor, Sarra Farjallah, Paolo Merella, Abdulaziz N Alagaili, Osama B. Mohammed

  23. Set up of an in vitro model to study early host-parasite interactions between newly excysted juveniles of Fasciola hepatica and host intestinal cells using a quantitative proteomics approach

    • Veterinary Parasitology
    • Author(s): Javier González-Miguel, David Becerro-Recio, Javier Sotillo, Fernando Simón, Mar Siles-Lucas

      • Heavy Metals
      • Chemical contaminants
  24. Retrospective survey of parasitism identified in feces of client-owned cats in North America from 2007 through 2018

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

      • Parasites
      • Toxoplasma gondii
      • Giardia lamblia
      • Cryptosporidium parvum
  25. Review of the Eprinomectin effective doses required for dairy goats: where do we go from here?

    • Veterinary Parasitology
    • Author(s): Antoine Rostang, Jacques Devos, Christophe Chartier

      • Chemical contaminants
      • Antibiotic residues