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| R E MandrellSummaryAffiliation: Agricultural Research Service Country: USA Publications
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Norovirus recognizes histo-blood group antigens on gastrointestinal cells of clams, mussels, and oysters: a possible mechanism of bioaccumulationPeng Tian
Produce Safety and Microbiology Research Unit, U S Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service, Western Regional Research Center, 800 Buchanan Street, Albany, California 94710, USA
J Food Prot 70:2140-7. 2007..Our results also suggest that this bioaccumulation could be reversed by incubation with HBGA analogs, a possible important new strategy for depuration...- Novel detection techniques for human pathogens that contaminate poultryR E Mandrell
United States Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service, Western Regional Research Center, Food Safety and Health Unit, 800 Buchanan Street, Albany, CA 94710, USA
Curr Opin Biotechnol 10:273-8. 1999..These new methods include immunomagnetic separation of pathogen, PCR amplification of pathogen-specific sequences, pathogen-specific DNA and RNA probes, and identification of pathogen-specific ions by mass spectrometry... 
Speciation of Campylobacter coli, C. jejuni, C. helveticus, C. lari, C. sputorum, and C. upsaliensis by matrix-assisted laser desorption ionization-time of flight mass spectrometryRobert E Mandrell
USDA, ARS, WRRC, 800 Buchanan St, Albany, CA 94710, USA
Appl Environ Microbiol 71:6292-307. 2005..MALDI-TOF MS provides an accurate, sensitive, and rapid method for identification of multiple Campylobacter species relevant to public health and food safety...- Detection and genotyping of Arcobacter and Campylobacter isolates from retail chicken samples by use of DNA oligonucleotide arraysBeatriz Quiñones
U S Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service, Western Regional Research Center, Produce Safety and Microbiology Research Unit, Albany, CA 94710, USA
Appl Environ Microbiol 73:3645-55. 2007..jejuni in whole chicken carcass samples. C. jejuni was efficiently detected directly both in package liquid from whole chicken carcasses and in enrichment broths... - Incidence and tracking of Escherichia coli O157:H7 in a major produce production region in CaliforniaMichael Cooley
Produce Safety and Microbiology Research Unit, United States Department of Agriculture Agricultural Research Service, Western Regional Research Center, Albany, California, United States of America
PLoS ONE 2:e1159. 2007..Intensive studies of the sources, incidence, fate and transport of EcO157 near produce production are required to determine the mechanisms of pre-harvest contamination and potential risks for human illness... - Production of autoinducer 2 in Salmonella enterica serovar Thompson contributes to its fitness in chickens but not on cilantro leaf surfacesM T Brandl
Produce Safety and Microbiology Research Unit, Agriculture Research Service, U S Department of Agriculture, Albany, CA 94710, USA
Appl Environ Microbiol 71:2653-62. 2005..Thus, inherent differences in the nutrients available to S. enterica in the phyllosphere and in the chicken intestine may underlie the differential contribution of AI-2 synthesis to the fitness of S. enterica in these environments... - Norovirus binds to blood group A-like antigens in oyster gastrointestinal cellsP Tian
Produce Safety and Microbiology Research Unit, United States Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service, Western Regional Research Center, Albany, CA 94710, USA
Lett Appl Microbiol 43:645-51. 2006..To determine if histo-blood group antigens (HBGA) present in oyster gastrointestinal (GI) cells mediate accumulation of human noroviruses (NoV) in oyster GI cells... - Recipes for antimicrobial wine marinades against Bacillus cereus, Escherichia coli O157:H7, Listeria monocytogenes, and Salmonella entericaMendel Friedman
Western Regional Research Center, Agricultural Research Service, US Department of Agriculture, Albany, CA 94710, USA
J Food Sci 72:M207-13. 2007..These observations suggest that antimicrobial wine formulations have the potential to improve the microbiological safety of foods... - Characterization of lipooligosaccharide-biosynthetic loci of Campylobacter jejuni reveals new lipooligosaccharide classes: evidence of mosaic organizationsCraig T Parker
US Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service, Produce Safety and Microbiology Unit, 800 Buchanan Street, Albany, CA 94710, USA
J Bacteriol 190:5681-9. 2008..Together, these observations suggest that LOS biosynthesis region is a hotspot for genetic exchange and variability, often leading to changes in the LOS produced... - Identification of protozoa in dairy lagoon wastewater that consume Escherichia coli O157:H7 preferentiallySubbarao V Ravva
Produce Safety and Microbiology Research Unit, United States Department of Agriculture, Agriculture Research Service, Western Regional Research Center, Albany, California, United States of America
PLoS ONE 5:e15671. 2010..Therefore, attempts to enrich protozoa to decrease EcO157 from dairy lagoons, may correspond to an increase in protozoa similar to Vorticella and possibly facilitate transport of bacterial pathogens to food crops grown in proximity... - Antimicrobial activities of tea catechins and theaflavins and tea extracts against Bacillus cereusMendel Friedman
Western Regional Research Center, Agricultural Research Service, US Department of Agriculture, Albany, California 94710, USA
J Food Prot 69:354-61. 2006..These studies extend our knowledge about the antimicrobial effects of food ingredients... - Autoinducer-2 production in Campylobacter jejuni contributes to chicken colonizationBeatriz Quiñones
U S Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service, Western Regional Research Center, Produce Safety and Microbiology Research Unit, 800 Buchanan Street, Albany, CA 94710, USA
Appl Environ Microbiol 75:281-5. 2009..Thus, AI-2 production in C. jejuni contributes to host colonization and interactions with epithelial cells... - Cryptic plasmids isolated from Campylobacter strains represent multiple, novel incompatibility groupsWilliam G Miller
Produce Safety and Microbiology Research Unit, Agricultural Research Service, US Department of Agriculture, Albany, CA 94710, USA
Plasmid 57:108-17. 2007..Thus, these plasmids may be used to construct a new generation of Campylobacter shuttle vectors that would permit transformation of environmental Campylobacter isolates with an existing repertoire of native plasmids... - Comparison of genotypes of Salmonella enterica serovar Enteritidis phage type 30 and 9c strains isolated during three outbreaks associated with raw almondsCraig T Parker
Produce Safety and Microbiology Research Unit, Western Regional Research Center, Agricultural Research Service, U S Department of Agriculture, 800 Buchanan St, Albany, CA 94710, USA
Appl Environ Microbiol 76:3723-31. 2010..These data indicate that S. Enteritidis PT9c and 30 strains are highly related genetically and that PT30 orchard strains differ from clinical PT30 strains metabolically, possibly due to fitness adaptations... - Escherichia coli O157:H7 survival and growth on lettuce is altered by the presence of epiphytic bacteriaMichael B Cooley
Produce Safety and Microbiology Research Unit, U S Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service, Western Regional Research Center, 800 Buchanan Street, Albany, California 94710, USA
J Food Prot 69:2329-35. 2006..Good agricultural practices that encourage the growth of competing bacteria, like E. asburiae, may reduce the incidence of produce contamination... 
Rapid identification of protein biomarkers of Escherichia coli O157:H7 by matrix-assisted laser desorption ionization-time-of-flight-time-of-flight mass spectrometry and top-down proteomicsClifton K Fagerquist
Western Regional Research Center, Agricultural Research Service, U S Department of Agriculture, 800 Buchanan Street, Albany, California 94710, USA
Anal Chem 82:2717-25. 2010..coli O157:H7 strains was identified by top-down analysis to be the HdeB acid stress chaperone-like protein consistent with previous identifications by gene sequencing and bottom-up proteomics...- Validation of a cell-free translation assay for detecting shiga toxin 2 in bacterial cultureXiaohua He
US Department of Agriculture, Western Regional Research Center, Agricultural Research Service, Albany, California 94710, USA
J Agric Food Chem 57:5084-8. 2009..It was concluded that the CFT assay is a rapid, specific, and sensitive method for detecting Stx2 activity... - Phylogenetic classification of Escherichia coli O157:H7 strains of human and bovine origin using a novel set of nucleotide polymorphismsMichael L Clawson
United States Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service, US Meat Animal Research Center, Clay Center, NE 68933, USA
Genome Biol 10:R56. 2009.... - The complete genome sequence and analysis of the epsilonproteobacterium Arcobacter butzleriWilliam G Miller
Produce Safety and Microbiology Research Unit, Agricultural Research Service, US Department of Agriculture, Albany, California, United States of America
PLoS ONE 2:e1358. 2007..Here we present the complete genome sequence of the human clinical isolate, A. butzleri strain RM4018... - Seasonal tracking of histo-blood group antigen expression and norovirus binding in oyster gastrointestinal cellsPeng Tian
Produce Safety and Microbiology Research Unit, U S Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service, Western Regional Research Center, Albany, California 94710, USA
J Food Prot 71:1696-700. 2008.... - Comparative genomic analysis of clinical strains of Campylobacter jejuni from South AfricaBeatriz Quiñones
United States Department of Agriculture Agricultural Research Service, Produce Safety and Microbiology Research Unit, Albany, California, United States of America
PLoS ONE 3:e2015. 2008..The sequence-based typing methods, multilocus sequence typing and DNA microarrays, were employed to potentially identify distinguishing features within the genomes of these C. jejuni strains with various disease outcomes... - Competitive fitness of Listeria monocytogenes serotype 1/2a and 4b strains in mixed cultures with and without food in the U.S. Food and Drug Administration enrichment protocolLisa Gorski
Produce Safety and Microbiology Research Unit, USDA ARS, Albany, CA 94710, USA
Appl Environ Microbiol 72:776-83. 2006..Using a colony immunoblot procedure and analyzing over 112,000 colonies, we observed differences in strain fitness, but these differences were not attributable to serotype or genetic lineage... - Antibacterial activities of phenolic benzaldehydes and benzoic acids against Campylobacter jejuni, Escherichia coli, Listeria monocytogenes, and Salmonella entericaMendel Friedman
Western Regional Research Center, Agricultural Research Service, US Department of Agriculture, 800 Buchanan Street, Albany, California 94710, USA
J Food Prot 66:1811-21. 2003..enterica at pH 7.0 as it was at pH 3.7, suggesting that the ionization of its OH groups may enhance bactericidal activity... - Bactericidal activities of plant essential oils and some of their isolated constituents against Campylobacter jejuni, Escherichia coli, Listeria monocytogenes, and Salmonella entericaMendel Friedman
Western Regional Research Center, Agricultural Research Service, U S Department of Agriculture, Albany, California 94710, USA
J Food Prot 65:1545-60. 2002..034 to 0.21) were thymol, cinnamaldehyde, carvacrol, eugenol, salicylaldehyde, geraniol, isoeugenol, terpineol, perillaldehyde, and estragole. The possible significance of these results with regard to food microbiology is discussed... - Colonization of Arabidopsis thaliana with Salmonella enterica and enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli O157:H7 and competition by Enterobacter asburiaeMichael B Cooley
Produce Safety and Microbiology Research Unit, Western Regional Research Center, Agricultural Research Service, U S Department of Agriculture, Albany, California 94710, USA
Appl Environ Microbiol 69:4915-26. 2003..However, contaminated seeds were not sanitized by extensive washing and chlorine treatment, indicating that some of the bacteria reside in a protected niche on the seed surface or under the seed coat... - Comparison of survival of Campylobacter jejuni in the phyllosphere with that in the rhizosphere of spinach and radish plantsMaria T Brandl
Produce Safety and Microbiology Research Unit, Agricultural Research Service, U S Department of Agriculture, Albany, California 94710, USA
Appl Environ Microbiol 70:1182-9. 2004..jejuni in soil and in the rhizosphere may be a significant factor in its contamination cycle in the environment and may be associated with the sporadic C. jejuni incidence and campylobacteriosis outbreaks linked to produce... - Intraspecific phylogeny and lineage group identification based on the prfA virulence gene cluster of Listeria monocytogenesTodd J Ward
Microbial Genomics and Bioprocessing Research Unit, National Center for Agricultural Utilization Research, Agricultural Research Service, U S Department of Agriculture, 1815 North University St, Peoria, IL 61604, USA
J Bacteriol 186:4994-5002. 2004..monocytogenes lineages may represent distinct species within the framework of the cohesion species concept... - Fitness of Salmonella enterica serovar Thompson in the cilantro phyllosphereMaria T Brandl
Produce Safety and Microbiology Research Unit, Agricultural Research Service, U S Department of Agriculture, 800 Buchanan Street, Albany, CA 94710, USA
Appl Environ Microbiol 68:3614-21. 2002..Our studies support the hypothesis that preharvest contamination of crops by S. enterica plays a role in outbreaks linked to fresh fruits and vegetables... - Antibacterial activities of plant essential oils and their components against Escherichia coli O157:H7 and Salmonella enterica in apple juiceMendel Friedman
Western Regional Research Center, Agricultural Research Service, U S Department of Agriculture, 800 Buchanan Street, Albany, California 94710, USA
J Agric Food Chem 52:6042-8. 2004..These studies provide information about new ways to protect apple juice and other foods against human pathogens... - Prevalence of Escherichia coli associated with a cabbage crop inadvertently irrigated with partially treated sewage wastewaterMarian R Wachtel
US Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service, Albany, California 94710, USA
J Food Prot 65:471-5. 2002..These data suggest that water quality is of paramount importance for the food safety of growing crops... - Association of Escherichia coli O157:H7 with preharvest leaf lettuce upon exposure to contaminated irrigation waterMarian R Wachtel
US Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service, Western Regional Research Center, Albany, California 94710, USA
J Food Prot 65:18-25. 2002..EHEC levels associated with young plants inoculated with a low dose suggested that the bacteria had multiplied. These data suggest that preharvest crop contamination via contaminated irrigation water can occur through plant roots... - Diversity within the Campylobacter jejuni type I restriction-modification lociWilliam G Miller
Produce Safety and Microbiology Research Unit, Agricultural Research Service, US Department of Agriculture, Albany, CA 94710, USA
Microbiology 151:337-51. 2005..jejuni hsd loci are presumably the result of such recombination. The importance of these findings with regard to the evolution of C. jejuni type I R-M systems is discussed... - Extended multilocus sequence typing system for Campylobacter coli, C. lari, C. upsaliensis, and C. helveticusWilliam G Miller
USDA, ARS, WRRC, Produce Safety and Microbiology Research Unit, 800 Buchanan St, Albany, CA 94710, USA
J Clin Microbiol 43:2315-29. 2005..upsaliensis and C. helveticus. Thus, the expanded MLST method will prove useful in differentiating strains of five Campylobacter species, identifying mixed Campylobacter cultures, and detecting genetic exchange within the genus... - Comparison of Campylobacter jejuni lipooligosaccharide biosynthesis loci from a variety of sourcesCraig T Parker
Produce Safety and Microbiology Unit, WRRC, USDA, ARS, 800 Buchanan St, Albany, CA 94710, USA
J Clin Microbiol 43:2771-81. 2005..Analysis of the LOS biosynthesis genes by PCR assays can be used for typing C. jejuni and offers the advantage of inferring potential LOS structures... - Comparative genomic analysis of Campylobacter jejuni strains reveals diversity due to genomic elements similar to those present in C. jejuni strain RM1221Craig T Parker
U S Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service, Western Regional Research Center, Produce Safety and Microbiology Unit, 800 Buchanan Street, Albany, CA 94710, USA
J Clin Microbiol 44:4125-35. 2006..Finally, we also showed that in CJIE1, a Campylobacter Mu-like phage, is located differentially in other strains of C. jejuni, suggesting that it may integrate essentially randomly... - Identification of host-associated alleles by multilocus sequence typing of Campylobacter coli strains from food animalsWilliam G Miller
Produce Safety and Microbiology Research Unit, Agricultural Research Service, US Department of Agriculture, Albany, CA 94710, USA
Microbiology 152:245-55. 2006..The presence of host-associated C. coli MLST alleles could lead potentially to more efficient source tracking in this species, especially in the trace-back of both sporadic and outbreak human clinical C. coli strains to animal sources... - Attachment of Listeria monocytogenes to radish tissue is dependent upon temperature and flagellar motilityLisa Gorski
Produce Safety and Microbiology Research Unit, Agricultural Research Service, U S Department of Agriculture, Albany, California 94710, USA
Appl Environ Microbiol 69:258-66. 2003..monocytogenes may use different attachment factors at different temperatures and that temperature should be considered an important variable in studies of the molecular mechanisms of Listeria fitness in complex environments... - Detection on surfaces and in Caco-2 cells of Campylobacter jejuni cells transformed with new gfp, yfp, and cfp marker plasmidsW G Miller
Food Safety and Health Research Unit, Agricultural Research Service, U S Department of Agriculture, Albany, California 94710, USA
Appl Environ Microbiol 66:5426-36. 2000..Colonies arising from these aggregates would be heterologous in nature; therefore, isolation of a pure culture of C. jejuni, by selecting single colonies, from an environmental sample may not always yield a single strain... - Wrinkled alfalfa seeds harbor more aerobic bacteria and are more difficult to sanitize than smooth seedsA O Charkowski
Food Safety and Health, USDA, ARS, WRRC, Albany, California 94710, USA
J Food Prot 64:1292-8. 2001.... - Genomic and proteomic identification of a DNA-binding protein used in the "fingerprinting" of campylobacter species and strains by MALDI-TOF-MS protein biomarker analysisClifton K Fagerquist
Western Regional Research Service, Agricultural Research Service, U S Department of Agriculture, Albany, California 94710, USA
Anal Chem 77:4897-907. 2005..upsaliensis strains. We have also tentatively assigned a approximately 10.5-kDa protein biomarker of a C. concisus strain as an HU protein... - Isolation of Campylobacter from feral swine (Sus scrofa) on the ranch associated with the 2006 Escherichia coli O157:H7 spinach outbreak investigation in CaliforniaM T Jay-Russell
Western Institute for Food Safety and Security, University of California, Davis, Davis, CA 95616, USA
Zoonoses Public Health 59:314-9. 2012..The study also illustrates a potential risk of Campylobacter exposure for hunters during handling and processing of wild swine meat... - Serotyping of Listeria monocytogenes by enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay and identification of mixed-serotype cultures by colony immunoblottingJeffrey D Palumbo
Produce Safety and Microbiology Research Unit, Agricultural Research Service, United States Department of Agriculture, Albany, California 94710-1105, USA
J Clin Microbiol 41:564-71. 2003..In addition, mixed-serotype cultures of L. monocytogenes were identified by a colony immunoblot procedure, in which serogroup 1/2 and serogroup 4 colonies were discriminated by differential staining... - Listeria monocytogenes subgroups IIIA, IIIB, and IIIC delineate genetically distinct populations with varied pathogenic potentialDongyou Liu
College of Veterinary Medicine, Mississippi State University, P O Box 6100, Mississippi State, MS 39762, USA
J Clin Microbiol 44:4229-33. 2006..It is possible that subgroup IIIB (including serotype 7) may represent a novel subspecies within L. monocytogenes... - Major structural differences and novel potential virulence mechanisms from the genomes of multiple campylobacter speciesDerrick E Fouts
The Institute for Genomic Research, Rockville, Maryland, United States of America
PLoS Biol 3:e15. 2005.... - Structural analysis of the capsular polysaccharide from Campylobacter jejuni RM1221Michel Gilbert
Institute for Biological Sciences, National Research Council Canada, 100 Sussex Drive, Ottawa, K1A 0R6, Canada
Chembiochem 8:625-31. 2007..We have also shown that the CPS biosynthesis genes of C. jejuni RM1221 are conserved in other C. jejuni strains of the Penner serotype HS:53, including serotype HS:53 reference strain RM3435... - Isolation of Salmonella Enteritidis phage type 30 from a single almond orchard over a 5-year periodAaron R Uesugi
Department of Food Science and Technology, University of California, One Shields Avenue, Davis, California 95616 8598, USA
J Food Prot 70:1784-9. 2007..These data demonstrate the potential for long-term environmental persistence of Salmonella in almond orchards... - Escherichia coli O157:H7 in feral swine near spinach fields and cattle, central California coastMichele T Jay
California Department of Public Health, Richmond, California, USA
Emerg Infect Dis 13:1908-11. 2007..Isolates from feral swine, cattle, surface water, sediment, and soil at 1 ranch were matched to the outbreak strain... - High-resolution genotyping of Campylobacter species by use of PCR and high-throughput mass spectrometryJames C Hannis
Ibis Biosciences, Inc, 1891 Rutherford Road, Carlsbad, CA 92008, USA
J Clin Microbiol 46:1220-5. 2008..jejuni and 25 strain types of C. coli are presented. These samples were parsed and resolved with demonstrated sensitivity down to 10 genomes/PCR from pure isolates... - Listeria monocytogenes serotype 4b strains belonging to lineages I and III possess distinct molecular featuresDongyou Liu
College of Veterinary Medicine, Mississippi State University, MS 39762, USA
J Clin Microbiol 44:214-7. 2006..These findings indicate that L. monocytogenes serotype 4b strains belonging to lineages I and III possess distinct molecular features... - The absence of intervening sequences in 23S rRNA genes of Campylobacter coli isolates from Turkeys is a unique attribute of a cluster of related strains which also lack resistance to erythromycinKamfai Chan
Department of Food Science, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC 27695 7624, USA
Appl Environ Microbiol 73:1208-14. 2007..coli from turkeys is characteristic of a unique clonal group of erythromycin-susceptible strains and that IVS can be acquired by these strains via natural transformation to erythromycin resistance...