Pathogen enrichment device (PED) enables one-step growth, enrichment and separation of pathogen from food matrices for detection using bioanalytical platforms.

The bottleneck for accurate detection of foodborne pathogens is separation of target analytes from complex food matrices. Currently used sample preparation methods are cumbersome, arduous and lengthy; thus, a user-friendly system is desirable. A hand-held sample preparation system designated pathogen enrichment device (PED) was built that contains a growth chamber, filters, and an ion exchange cartridge to deliver bacteria directly onto the detection platforms.

Protein phosphatase 5 protects neurons against amyloid-beta toxicity.

Amyloid-beta (Abeta) is thought to promote neuronal cell loss in Alzheimer's disease, in part through the generation of reactive oxygen species (ROS) and subsequent activation of mitogen-activated protein kinase (MAPK) pathways. Protein phosphatase 5 (PP5) is a ubiquitously expressed serine/threonine phosphatase which has been implicated in several cell stress response pathways and shown to inactivate MAPK pathways through key dephosphorylation events. Therefore, we examined whether PP5 protects dissociated embryonic rat cortical neurons in vitro from cell death evoked by Abeta.

Expression of LAP, a SecA2-dependent secretory protein, is induced under anaerobic environment.

Listeria adhesion protein (LAP), an alcohol acetaldehyde dehydrogenase homolog (lmo1634) in Listeria monocytogenes, promotes bacterial adhesion to intestinal epithelial cells in vitro. Investigation of the effect of anaerobiosis, an intrinsic gastrointestinal condition, on LAP expression and LAP-mediated infection should elucidate its significance during intestinal infection. The influence of anaerobiosis on LAP expression was determined by growing L.

The 2-cys peroxiredoxin-deficient Listeria monocytogenes displays impaired growth and survival in the presence of hydrogen peroxide in vitro but not in mouse organs.

Resistance of Listeria monocytogenes to reactive oxygen radicals may facilitate its survival in phagocytic cells and against some oxidizing sanitizers. The aim of this study was to investigate the function of the 2-cys peroxiredoxin (Prx) homologue in L. monocytogenes, particularly its survival in a hydrogen peroxide-containing environment.

Selective enrichment media affect the antibody-based detection of stress-exposed Listeria monocytogenes due to differential expression of antibody-reactive antigens identified by protein sequencing.

Selective enrichment broths are frequently used to recover stressed Listeria cells to detectable levels, but the ability of antibodies to detect these cells from various commonly used enrichment media is unknown. In this study, a polyclonal (PAb) and monoclonal (MAb) antibody were used to examine the variation in antigen expression on healthy or stress-recovered Listeria monocytogenes cells grown in brain heart infusion broth, buffered Listeria enrichment broth (BLEB), Listeria repair broth (LRB), University of Vermont medium (UVM), and Fraser broth (FB) for immunodetection. Indirect enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) data showed that L.

Comparison of genotypic-based microbial source tracking methods requiring a host origin database.

Microbial source tracking (MST) results, obtained using identical sample sets and pulsed field gel electrophoresis (PFGE), repetitive element PCR (rep-PCR) and ribotyping techniques were compared. These methods were performed by six investigators in analysis of duplicate, blind sets of water samples spiked with feces from five possible sources (sewage, human, dog, cow and seagull). Investigators were provided with samples of the fecal material used to inoculate the water samples for host origin database construction.

Subtyping of foodborne and environmental isolates of Escherichia coli by multiplex-PCR, rep-PCR, PFGE, ribotyping and AFLP.

A total of 54 isolates were characterized by multiplex-PCR for toxin genes and genotyped using several DNA fingerprinting methods: using repetitive extragenic palindromes (REP) and Box primers (rep-PCR), amplified fragment length polymorphism (AFLP), pulsed-field gel electrophoresis (PFGE) and ribotyping. The known-pathogenic strains tested were from food and clinical samples (34 strains) and included serovars O157:H7, O111:H8, O111:H11, O91:H21 and O55:H7. Two type cultures, Escherichia coli K12 (ATCC 29425) and DUP-101 (ATCC 51739), were included as known non-pathogenic strains and an additional 17 previously unclassified isolates from animal fecal samples.