Listeria Papers and Reports

2021

Stewart, D.S., Rana, Y.S., Deng, K., Vijayakumarc, G., Yin, L., Salazar, J. K., and Tortorello, M.L. 2021. Effect of time, temperature and transport media on the recovery of Listeria monocytogenes from environmental swabs. Journal of Food Protection. 84(5): 811-819.

Juneja, V.K., Osoria, M., Altuntas, E.G., Salazar, J.K., Kumar, G.D., Sehgal, S., and Baker, D. 2021. Inactivation of Listeria monocytogenes, Escherichia coli O157:H7, and Salmonella spp. on dates by antimicrobial washes. Journal of Food Processing and Preservation. 45: e15282.

Salazar, J.K., Fay, M., Eckert, C., Stewart, D., Cranford V., and Tortorello, M.L. 2021. Evaluation of enrichment and compositing of environmental samples for detection of Listeria monocytogenes. Journal of Food Protection. 84(4): 639-646.

Salazar, J.K., Gonsalves, L.J., Fay, M., Ramachandran, P., Schill, K.M., and Tortorello, M.L. 2021. Metataxonomic profiling of native and starter microbiota during ripening of gouda cheese made with Listeria monocytogenes-contaminated unpasteurized Milk. Frontiers in Microbiology. 2: 642789.

Streufert, R.K., Keller, S.E., Salazar, J.K. 2021. Relationship of growth conditions to desiccation tolerance of Salmonella enterica, Escherichia coli, and Listeria monocytogenes. Journal of Food Protection. 84(8): 1380–1384.

2020

Salazar, J.K., Gonsalves, L.G., Natarajan, V., Shazer, A., Reineke, K., Mhetras, T., Sule, C., Carstens, C.K., Schill, K.M., and Tortorello, M.L. 2020. Population dynamics of Listeria monocytogenes, Escherichia coli O157:H7, and native microflora during manufacture and aging of gouda cheese made with unpasteurized milk. Journal of Food Protection. 83(2): 266-276.

Salazar, J.K., Natarajan, V., Stewart, D., Stewart, Fay, M., Gonsalves, L.J., Mhetras, T., Sule, C., and Tortorello, M.L. 2020. Listeria monocytogenes Growth Kinetics in Refrigerated Ready-to-Eat Dips and Dip Components.

2019

Maks, N., Ye, M., Swanson S., Lee A., Burton-Freeman, B., and Deng, K. 2019. Evaluation of Inactivating Norovirus, Hepatitis A and Listeria monocytogenes on Raspberries by Sanitizer Spray. Journal of Food Protection 82(5): 869-877.

Salazar, J.K., Natarajan, V., Stewart, D., Suehr, Q., Mhetras, T., Gonsalves, L.J., and Tortorello, M.L. 2019. Survival kinetics of Listeria monocytogenes on chickpeas, sesame seeds, pine nuts, and black pepper as affected by relative humidity storage conditions. PLoS ONE 14(12): e0226362.

Salazar, J.K., Natarajan, V., Stewart, D., Warren, J., Gonsalves, L.J., Mhetras, T., and Tortorello, M.L. 2019. Fate of Listeria monocytogenes in ready-to-eat refrigerated dips treated with high pressure processing. Journal of Food Protection. 82(8): 1320-1325.

Salazar, J.K., Stewart, D., Shazer, A., and Tortorello, M.L. 2019. Long-term - 20°C survival of Listeria monocytogenes in artificially- and process-contaminated ice cream involved in an outbreak of Listeriosis. Journal of Dairy Science. 103(1): 172-175.

2018

Salazar, J., Bathija, V., Carstens, C., Narula, S., Shazer, A., Stewart, D., Tortorello, M.L. 2018. Listeria monocytogenes Growth Kinetics in Milkshakes Made from Naturally and Artificially Contaminated Ice Cream.  Frontiers Food Microbiology. 9:62. DOI:10.3389/fmicb.2018.00062.

2017

Gombas, D., Lou Y., Brennan, J., Shergill, G., Petran, R., Walsh, R., Hau, H., Khurana, K., Zomorodi, B., Rosen, J., Varley, R., and Deng, K. 2017. Guidelines To Validate Control of Cross-Contamination during Washing of Fresh-Cut Leafy Vegetables. Journal of Food Protection. 80 (2): 312–330.

Salazar, J.K., Sahu, S.N., Hildebrandt, I.M., Zhang, L., Qi, Y., Liggans G., Datta, A.R., Tortorello, M.L. 2017. Growth kinetics of Listeria monocytogenes in cut produce. Journal of Food Protection. 80(8): 1328-1336.

2016

Salazar J.K., C.K. Carstens, V.M. Bathija, S.S. Narula, M. Parish and M.L. Tortorello. 2016. Fate of Listeria monocytogenes in fresh apples and caramel apples. Journal of Food Protection. 79(5): 696-702.

2014

Wang S., Orsi, R.H., Tang S., Zhang W., Wiedmann M., Boor K.J. 2014. The Phosphotransferase System-dependent Extracellular Growth of Listeria monocytogenes is Regulated by Alternative Sigma Factors σL and σH. Applied and Environmental Microbiology. 80(24):7673-82.

2013

Salazar J.K., Wu, Z., McMullen., D., Luo, Q., Freitag, N.E., Tortorello, M.L., Hu, S., Zhang, W. 2013. A prfA-like transcription factor gene Lmo0753 contributes to L-rhamnose utilization in Listeria monocytogenes associated with human foodborne infections.  Applied and Environmental Microbiology.  79: 5584-5592.

Salazar J.K., Wu, Z., Yang, W., Freitag N.E., Tortorello M.L., Wang, H., Zhang, W. 2013. Roles of a novel Crp/Fnr family transcription Factor Lmo0753 in soil survival, biofilm production, and surface attachment to fresh produce of Listeria monocytogenes. PLoS One. 8(9): e75736.

2011

Jia Wen, Xiangyu Deng, Zengxin Li, Edward G. Dudley, Ramaswamy C. Anantheswaran, Stephen J. Knabel, Wei Zhang. 2011. Transcriptomic response of Listeria monocytogenes during transition to the long term survival phase. Applied and Environmental Microbiology 77(17):5966-5972.

2010

Deng, X., A.M. Phillippy, Z. Li, S.L. Salzbergy and W. Zhang. 2010. Probing the pan-genome of Listeria monocytogenes: New insights into intraspecific niche expansion and genomic diversification. BMC Genomics. 11:500.

Maks, N., L. Zhu, V.K. Juneja and S. Ravishankar. 2010. Sodium lactate, sodium diacetate and pediocin: Effects and interactions on the thermal inactivation of Listeria monocytogenes on bologna. Food Microbiology. 27(1):64-69.

Szlachta, K., S. E. Keller, A. G. Shazer, and S. J. Chirtel. 2010. Thermal resistance of Listeria monocytogenes Scott A in ultrafiltered milk as related to the effect of different milk components. Journal of Food Protection. 73:2110–2115.

Xiangyu Deng, Adam M. Phillippy, Zengxin Li, Steven L. Salzberg, and Wei Zhang. 2010. Probing the pan-genome of Listeria monocytogenes: New insights into intraspecific niche expansion and genomic diversification. BMC Genomics 11(1):500.

2009

Phillippy, A.M., X. Deng, W. Zhang, and S.L. Salzberg. 2009. Efficient oligonucleotide probe selection for pan genomic tiling arrays. BMC Bioinformatics. 10. 293.

2007

Chen, Y., W. Zhang, S. J. Knabel. 2007. Multi-virulence-locus sequence typing identifies single nucleotide polymorphisms which differentiate epidemic clones and outbreak strains of Listeria monocytogenes. Journal of Clinical Microbiology. 45(3): 835-846.

Swaminathan, B., D. Cabanes, D., W. Zhang,, Cossart. 2007. Chapter 21: Listeria monocytogenes. In: Food Microbiology: Fundamentals and Frontiers, 3rd edition. ASM Press.

2005

Tortorello M., Ravishankar S., Zhu L., Swiech R., Stewart D., Palumbo S., Hitchins T., Cirigliano M. 2005. Recovery of Listeria Monocytogenes from Environmental Swabs.

2004

Fleischman, G.J., Ravishankar, S., and Balasubramaniam, V.M. 2004. The inactivation of Listeria monocytogenes by pulsed electric field (PEF) treatment in a static chamber. Food Microbiology. 21(1):91-95.

Tipparaju, S., Ravishankar, S., and Slade, P. J. 2004. The survival of Listeria monocytogenes in vanilla flavored soymilk and yogurt stored at 8°C. Journal of Food Protection. 67(2): 378 - 382.

2001

Ravishankar, S., M. A. Harrison, L.Wicker. 2001. Protein profile changes in acid adapted listeria monocytogenes exhibiting cross-protection against an activated lactoperroxidase system. Journal of Food Safety. 20(1): 27-42.

Teo, A.Y, L.. Ziegler, R. Gregory, S. Knabel. 2001. Optimizing detection of heat-injured listeria  monocytogenes in pasteurized milk. Journal of Food Protection. 64(7): 1000-1012.

2000

Gendel, Steve M. and Ulaszek, Jodie. Ribotype Analysis of Strain Distribution in Listeria monocytogenes. Journal of Food Protection. 2000. 63(2): 179-185

Hartman, G., Stewart, D., and Gendel, S. 2000. Identification of Listeria monocytogenes from ice cream using the BAX system. Laboratory Information Bulletin. 4213:1-7.

1999

Ravishankar, S., Harrison, M. A., and Wicker, L. 1999. Acid adaptation of Listeria monocytogenes offers cross-protection against an activated lactoperoxidase system. Journal of  Food Protection. 62:6 June, 1999: 670-673.

Stewart, D. and Gendel, S. 1999. Specificity of the BAX polymerese chain reaction system for detection of the foodborne pathogen Listeria monocytogenes. Journal of the AOAC International. 81(4):817-822.

1998

Stewart, D.S., and Gendel, S.M. 1998. Specificity of the BAX polymerase chain reaction system for detection of the foodborne pathogen Listeria moncytogenes. Journal of the AOAC International. 81(4): 817-822.

1997

Tortorello, M.L., Reineke, K. F., and Stewart, D.S. 1997. Comparison of antibody-direct epifluorescent filter technique with the most probable number procedure for rapid enumeration of listeria in fresh vegetables. Journal of the AOAC International. 80(6):1208-1214.