J Bacteriol 2004, 186:4748–4758.PubMedCrossRef Competing interests The authors declare that they have no competing interests. Authors’ contributions SS developed the study concept. SS conceived and designed a majority of the experiments. SS and TR performed the experiments. SS wrote the paper. Both authors read and approved the final manuscript.”
“Background The microbial ecology of pathogenicity remains poorly understood in the transmission of many infectious diseases
– some of which are vectored by foods. Tomatoes, for example, have been implicated in Salmonella outbreaks at least seventeen times in the period spanning 1990 to 2010 (Table 1). Whether or not there are distinctive attributes of tomato plant anatomy or tomato crop field ecology that influence downstream persistence Dasatinib manufacturer of Salmonella in foods remains to be shown. Table 1 Salmonella – Tomato outbreaks Tomato type Outbreak year Location PKC inhibitor by state Illnesses reported Salmonellasubtype Tomato 1990 SC 176 S. Javiana Tomato 1993 SC 100 S. Montevideo Tomato 1998-99 FL 86 S. Baildon Tomato 2000 FL, GA 29 S. Thompson Red
Round 2002 VA 512 S. Newport Grape 2002 FL or Mexico 12 S. Newport Roma 2002 FL or Mexico 90 S. Javiana Roma 2004 FL, GA or SC 471 S. Javiana Roma 2004 FL 123 S. Braenderup Red Round 2005 VA 71 S. Newport Tomato 2005 CA 77 S. Enteritidis Roma 2005 FL 76 S. Braenderup Red Round 2006 OH 186 S. Typhimurium Red Round 2006 NA 107 S. Newport Red Round 2007 VA 65 S. Newport Red Round 2010 FL 46 S. Newport Red Round 2010 VA 99 S. Newport Internal FDA list compiled by Captain Thomas Hill. By the time a fresh fruit or vegetable makes it to the point of human consumption, it has traveled through multiple diverse, yet interwoven, ecologies. It has been affected by agricultural practices, geographic pressures, processing effluents, and microbial landscapes
that contribute a vast array of genetic potential. Pathogen-contaminated foods still result in human deaths: as was highlighted in Germany with the E. coli O104 outbreak of the summer of 2011 [1]. Since fresh produce is prepared and consumed, often without heating or other types of “kill” steps, a comprehensive understanding of biological risks acetylcholine will improve future risk management. The number of recognized microbial communities associated with human and environmental ecologies has increased dramatically in the past ten years. A potential “core” microbiome or “enterotypes” of human gut flora have been proposed [2]. Plants, like humans, are comprised of differentiated cells that comprise organs. Microbial constituents of human organs such as skin have been shown to be niche-driven and unique in comparison to one another [3]. It is also likely that different levels of food safety risk correlate with different plant parts, different plant species and the diverse geographic regions in which crops are grown.