Food Microbiology

"Food Microbiology" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure, which enables searching at various levels of specificity.

MeSH information

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The presence of bacteria, viruses, and fungi in food and food products. This term is not restricted to pathogenic organisms: the presence of various non-pathogenic bacteria and fungi in cheeses and wines, for example, is included in this concept.

Descriptor ID	D005516
MeSH Number(s)	H01.158.273.540.274.332 J01.576.423.850.730.500.249.300 N06.850.425.200 N06.850.460.400.300 N06.850.601.500.249.300
Concept/Terms	Food Microbiology Food Microbiology Microbiology, Food

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Natural Sciences [H]
Natural Science Disciplines [H01]
Biological Science Disciplines [H01.158]
Biology [H01.158.273]
Microbiology [H01.158.273.540]
Environmental Microbiology [H01.158.273.540.274]
Food Microbiology [H01.158.273.540.274.332]
Technology, Industry, Agriculture [J]
Technology, Industry, and Agriculture [J01]
Industry [J01.576]
Food Industry [J01.576.423]
Food Technology [J01.576.423.850]
Food Quality [J01.576.423.850.730]
Food Safety [J01.576.423.850.730.500]
Food Contamination [J01.576.423.850.730.500.249]
Food Microbiology [J01.576.423.850.730.500.249.300]
Health Care [N]
Environment and Public Health [N06]
Public Health [N06.850]
Environmental Microbiology [N06.850.425]
Food Microbiology [N06.850.425.200]
Environmental Pollution [N06.850.460]
Food Contamination [N06.850.460.400]
Food Microbiology [N06.850.460.400.300]
Food Quality [N06.850.601]
Food Safety [N06.850.601.500]
Food Contamination [N06.850.601.500.249]
Food Microbiology [N06.850.601.500.249.300]

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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Food Microbiology" by people in this website by year, and whether "Food Microbiology" was a major or minor topic of these publications.

Bar chart showing 33 publications over 21 distinct years, with a maximum of 4 publications in 2025

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Year	Major Topic	Minor Topic	Total
2003	0	1	1
2004	0	1	1
2005	1	1	2
2006	0	3	3
2007	0	1	1
2008	1	0	1
2010	1	1	2
2011	0	1	1
2012	1	2	3
2013	1	1	2
2014	1	1	2
2015	2	0	2
2016	0	1	1
2017	1	0	1
2018	0	1	1
2019	1	0	1
2020	0	1	1
2021	0	1	1
2024	0	1	1
2025	1	3	4
2026	0	1	1

Below are the most recent publications written about "Food Microbiology" by people in Profiles.

Nyarku R, Kuufire E, Bentum KE, Osei V, Elrefaey A, James T, Woube Y, Alocilja E, Samuel T, Abebe W. Optimizing Lysis and Extraction Workflows for Enrichment-Free qPCR Detection of Salmonella enterica in Poultry Matrices. Pathogens. 2026 Feb 18; 15(2).

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Williams M, Faraj R, Nyarku R, Simon S, Bentum KE, Ghazy A, Woube Y, Samuel T, Alocija E, Abebe W. Potential Use of Biosensors for the Rapid and Specific Isolation of Listeria monocytogenes from Ready-to-Eat (RTE) Foods. Pathogens. 2025 Dec 12; 14(12).

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Lee I, So H, Ho KKHY, Li Y, Jun S. Flow-Based Dielectrophoretic Biosensor for Detection of Bacteriophage MS2 as a Foodborne Virus Surrogate. Biosensors (Basel). 2025 Jun 03; 15(6).

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Bentum KE, Nyarku R, Kuufire E, Samuel T, Jackson CR, Abebe W. Hydrogen Sulfide Negative Salmonella and their Implication for Standard Culture-based Identification. J Food Prot. 2025 06 23; 88(7):100549.

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Faraj R, Ramadan H, Bentum KE, Alkaraghulli B, Woube Y, Hassan Z, Samuel T, Adesiyun A, Jackson CR, Abebe W. Antimicrobial Resistance, Virulence Gene Profiling, and Spa Typing of Staphylococcus aureus Isolated from Retail Chicken Meat in Alabama, USA. Pathogens. 2025 Jan 22; 14(2).

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Acheamfour CL, Parveen S, Gutierrez A, Handy ET, Behal S, Kim D, Kim S, East C, Xiong R, Haymaker JR, Micallef SA, Rosenberg Goldstein RE, Kniel KE, Sapkota AR, Hashem F, Sharma M. Detection of Salmonella enterica and Listeria monocytogenes in alternative irrigation water by culture and qPCR-based methods in the Mid-Atlantic U.S. Microbiol Spectr. 2024 Apr 02; 12(4):e0353623.

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Lee BE, Kang T, Jenkins D, Li Y, Wall MM, Jun S. A single-walled carbon nanotubes-based electrochemical impedance immunosensor for on-site detection of Listeria monocytogenes. J Food Sci. 2022 Jan; 87(1):280-288.

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Brockett S, Wolfe MK, Hamot A, Appiah GD, Mintz ED, Lantagne D. Associations among Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene, and Food Exposures and Typhoid Fever in Case-Control Studies: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis. Am J Trop Med Hyg. 2020 09; 103(3):1020-1031.

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Hammad AM, Hoffmann M, Gonzalez-Escalona N, Abbas NH, Yao K, Koenig S, Allu?-Guardia A, Eppinger M. Genomic features of colistin resistant Escherichia coli ST69 strain harboring mcr-1 on IncHI2 plasmid from raw milk cheese in Egypt. Infect Genet Evol. 2019 09; 73:126-131.

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Wei X, Zhou W, Sanjay ST, Zhang J, Jin Q, Xu F, Dominguez DC, Li X. Multiplexed Instrument-Free Bar-Chart SpinChip Integrated with Nanoparticle-Mediated Magnetic Aptasensors for Visual Quantitative Detection of Multiple Pathogens. Anal Chem. 2018 08 21; 90(16):9888-9896.

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