Latest update from the Food Safety Research Information Office - March 2020

Food Safety Research Publications Update

Check out the latest food safety research publications from the Food Safety Research Information Office! 

 March 2020

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Produce Safety

. Mycotoxins reduction in dawadawa (an African fermented condiment) produced from Bambara groundnut (Vigna subterranea) . Phytopathogenic organisms and mycotoxigenic fungi: Why do we control one and neglect the other? A biological control perspective in Malaysia . Structural and metabolic performance of p-cresol producing microbiota in different carbon sources

Antimicrobial Resistance

. Heteroresistance to cefepime in Pseudomonas aeruginosa bacteraemia . The effect of enrofloxacin on enteric Escherichia coli: Fitting a mathematical model to in vivo data . Antimicrobial Resistance and Food Animals: Influence of Livestock Environment on the Emergence and Dissemination of Antimicrobial Resistance

Bacterial Pathogens

. LysR-Type Transcriptional Regulator MetR Controls Prodigiosin Production, Methionine Biosynthesis, Cell Motility, H2O2 Tolerance, Heat Tolerance, and Exopolysaccharide Synthesis in Serratia marcescens . Alterations of the Viable Ileal Microbiota of the Gut Mucosa-Lymph Node Axis in Pigs Fed Phytase and Lactic Acid-Treated Cereals . The Locus of Heat Resistance Confers Resistance to Chlorine and Other Oxidizing Chemicals in Escherichia coli

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