Advances in Foodborne Pathogens

A special issue of Biology (ISSN 2079-7737). This special issue belongs to the section "Microbiology".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 July 2025 | Viewed by 538

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School of Life Sciences, Shanghai University, Shanghai 200444, China
Interests: foodborne pathogens detection; foodborne pathogens contamnation control; foodborne pathogens biofilm

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Dear Colleagues,

According to the data of World Health Organization, at least 1 in 10 of the global population becomes unwell because of contaminated food and about 42,0000 people die every year. Food safety is very important for human health. Among the risk factors that threaten food safety, foodborne pathogens cause most food safety problems and consistently attract significant attention. For foodborne pathogens, we want to obtain the answers to the following questions: how do foodborne pathogens contaminate food? How do foodborne pathogens grow and reproduce in food? How can we kill foodborne pathogens or control contamination? How do foodborne pathogens infect people? How can we develop rapid, sensitive and reliable assays for the development of foodborne pathogens? The results of these questions can help people to reduce the serious consequences caused by foodborne pathogens and improve food safety.

Therefore, the Special Issue “Advances in Foodborne Pathogens” has been launched in Biology , and we are pleased to invite you to published novel studies  (articles or reviews) about the recent advances in foodborne pathogens on topics including but not limited to contamination control, risk assessment, virulence mechanism, antibacterial agents or materials, and detection assays.

Dr. Qiming Chen
Guest Editor

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Keywords

  • foodborne pathogens
  • contamination mechanisms
  • infection mechanisms
  • detection assays
  • risk assessment
  • antibacterial agents or materials

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Development of a Visual Assay for Detection of Viable Cronobacter sakazakii Using RT-PSR and Hydroxynaphthol Blue Indicator
by Peng Wang, Qiming Chen, Yikai Wang, Xueting Sun and Zhanmin Liu
Biology 2025, 14(4), 383; https://doi.org/10.3390/biology14040383 - 7 Apr 2025
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Cronobacter sakazakii is a foodborne pathogen in powdered infant formula, which poses a significant risk to susceptible populations such as infants and the elderly. This study aims to develop a visual detection method for viable C. sakazakii using the reverse transcription-polymerase spiral reaction [...] Read more.
Cronobacter sakazakii is a foodborne pathogen in powdered infant formula, which poses a significant risk to susceptible populations such as infants and the elderly. This study aims to develop a visual detection method for viable C. sakazakii using the reverse transcription-polymerase spiral reaction and hydroxynaphthol blue indicator. Under the optimized conditions, the detection process could be completed within 55 min with low equipment dependence. It was evaluated to have high specificity and sensitivity with the detection limit low to 1.2 × 101 CFU/mL. The assay also showed 100% accuracy in artificially contaminated samples. Full article
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