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Lester Earl And Veronica Casida Career Development Professor Of Food Safety And Associate Professor Of Food Science, Food Science
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Prevalence of Listeria monocytogenes and Listeria species and associated risk factors for contamination of milk and cottage cheese along the value chains in Ethiopia
Hassen, A., Keba, A., Ebrai, M. S., Mamo, H., Geleta, T. K., Tessema, T. S., Vipham, J., Kovac, J. & Zewdu, A., Feb 2 2025, In: International journal of food microbiology. 429, 111021.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Impact of Improved Sanitation Standard Operating Procedures on Microbial Populations at Three Tree Fruit Packing Facilities
Rolon, M. L., Mendez Acevedo, M., Sinclair, P., Macarisin, D., LaBorde, L. F. & Kovac, J., Jan 2 2025, In: Journal of food protection. 88, 1, 100436.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Genomic Diversity and Potential Transmission and Persistence of Salmonella in the Cambodian Vegetable Supply Chain
Salazar, A., Sreng, N., Peng, C., Fu, Y., Nawrocki, E. M., Chung, T., Vipham, J., Dudley, E. G. & Kovac, J., Feb 3 2025, In: Journal of food protection. 88, 2, 100447.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Ecology of prophage-like elements in Bacillus subtilis at global and local geographical scales
Stefanic, P., Stare, E., Floccari, V. A., Kovac, J., Hertel, R., Rocha, U., Kovács, Á. T., Mandić-Mulec, I., Strube, M. L. & Dragoš, A., Jan 28 2025, In: Cell Reports. 44, 1, 115197.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Pseudomonadaceae increased the tolerance of Listeria monocytogenes to sanitizers in multi-species biofilms
Voloshchuk, O., Rolon, M. L., Bartlett, K. V., Mendez Acevedo, M., LaBorde, L. F. & Kovac, J., Jun 2025, In: Food Microbiology. 128, 104687.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Genomic diversity of Campylobacter jejuni and Campylobacter coli isolated from the Ethiopian dairy supply chain
Admasie, A., Wei, X., Johnson, B., Burns, L., Pawar, P., Aurand-Cravens, A., Voloshchuk, O., Dudley, E. G., Tessema, T. S., Zewdu, A. & Kovac, J., Aug 2024, In: PloS one. 19, 8 August, e0305581.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Seasonal variation in the prevalence and antimicrobial resistance of Campylobacter species in milk and milk products in Ethiopia
Admasie, A., Tessema, T. S., Vipham, J., Kovac, J. & Zewdu, A., Feb 2024, In: International Dairy Journal. 149, 105826.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Seasonal variation of Salmonella enterica prevalence in milk and cottage cheese along the dairy value chain in three regions of Ethiopia
Admasu, H. N., Bedassa, A., Tessema, T. S., Kovac, J., Vipham, J. L. & Woldegiorgis, A. Z., Dec 2024, In: Food Safety and Risk. 11, 1, 2.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Comparison of the performance of multiple whole-genome sequence-based tools for the identification of Bacillus cereus sensu stricto biovar Thuringiensis
Chung, T., Salazar, A., Harm, G., Johler, S., Carroll, L. M. & Kovac, J., Apr 2024, In: Applied and environmental microbiology. 90, 4Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
The choice of 16S rRNA gene sequence analysis impacted characterization of highly variable surface microbiota in dairy processing environments
Daly, S. E., Feng, J., Daeschel, D., Kovac, J. & Snyder, A. B., Nov 2024, In: mSystems. 9, 11, e00620-24.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Salmonella sp. Tied to Multistate Outbreak Isolated from Wastewater, United States, 2022
Goldblum, Z. S., M’ikanatha, N. M., Nawrocki, E. M., Cesari, N., Kovac, J. & Dudley, E. G., Dec 2024, In: Emerging infectious diseases. 30, 12, p. 2695-2697 3 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Draft genome sequence of Ruoffia tabacinasalis isolated from a bovine nasal swab: a novel member of the bovine nasal microbiota
Howe, S., Wei, X., Kovac, J. & Zhao, J., Sep 2024, In: Microbiology Resource Announcements. 13, 9Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Sanitizer Resistance and Persistence of Listeria monocytogenes Isolates in Tree Fruit Packing Facilities
Méndez Acevedo, M., Rolon, M. L., Johnson, B. B., Burns, L. H., Stacy, J., Aurand-Cravens, A., LaBorde, L. & Kovac, J., Oct 2024, In: Journal of food protection. 87, 10, 100354.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Outbreak-associated Salmonella Baildon found in wastewater demonstrates how sewage monitoring can supplement traditional disease surveillance
M'ikanatha, N. M., Goldblum, Z. S., Cesari, N., Nawrocki, E. M., Fu, Y., Kovac, J. & Dudley, E. G., Oct 2024, In: Journal of clinical microbiology. 62, 10, e0082524.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
kmerDB: A database encompassing the set of genomic and proteomic sequence information for each species
Mouratidis, I., Baltoumas, F. A., Chantzi, N., Patsakis, M., Chan, C. S. Y., Montgomery, A., Konnaris, M. A., Aplakidou, E., Georgakopoulos, G. C., Das, A., Chartoumpekis, D. V., Kovac, J., Pavlopoulos, G. A. & Georgakopoulos-Soares, I., Dec 2024, In: Computational and Structural Biotechnology Journal. 23, p. 1919-1928 10 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review