Publications by authors named "Unji Kim"

Biofilm formation in natural environments involving complex multi-structural arrangements hinders challenges in antimicrobial resistance. This study investigated the antimicrobial resistance potential of grapefruit seed extract (GSE) by examining the formation of mono-, dual-, and multi-species biofilms. We also explored the counterintuitive effect in response to GSE at various concentrations, including minimum inhibitory concentration (MIC) and sub-MIC (1/2 and 1/4 MIC).

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Background: Listeria monocytogenes is a pathogenic bacterium that can lead to severe illnesses, especially among vulnerable populations. Therefore, the development of rapid and sensitive detection methods is vital to prevent and manage foodborne diseases. In this study, we used tetraethylenepentamine (TEPA)-functionalized magnetic nanoparticles (MNPs) and a loop-mediated isothermal amplification (LAMP)-based CRISPR/Cas12a-based biosensor to concentrate and detect, respectively, L.

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Unlabelled: causing soft-rot disease requires on-site detection before the distribution of agricultural products. Loop-mediated isothermal amplification (LAMP), which is resistant to food inhibitors, is known for its high detection sensitivity for pathogens and when coupled with lateral flow immunoassay (LFA) enables visualizations. For detection of soft-rot disease, we developed a LAMP-LFA system targeting 16S ribosomal RNA, a partial sequence gene of subsp.

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Loop-mediated isothermal amplification (LAMP), a rapid and sensitive isothermal nucleic acid amplification method, is a promising alternative to other molecular amplification techniques due to its superior specificity and sensitivity. However, due to primer dimerization, LAMP results in nonspecific and nontemplate amplification. And during the amplification confirmation process, there is carry-over contamination.

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Biofilms are an aggregation of microorganisms that have high resistance to antimicrobial agents. In the food industry, it has been widely studied that foodborne pathogens on both food surfaces and food-contact surfaces can form biofilms thereby threatening the safety of the food. In the natural environment, multi-species biofilms formed by more than two different microorganisms are abundant.

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Background: s: To overcome the limitation of polymerase chain reaction (PCR), isothermal amplification methods such as thermophilic helicase-dependent amplification (tHDA) have been developed. However, formation of primer dimer due to the single amplification temperature are major problems of tHDA. When cross-dimerization of forward and reverse primer occurred, false-positive results can be found on the lateral flow assay (LFA) which is one of the major detection methods widely used as a point of care diagnosis.

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The filter concentration method facilitates the rapid detection of foodborne pathogens. The filter concentration method lowered the limit of detection (LOD) of artificially inoculated cabbage with Salmonella Typhimurium; however, the procedure injured foodborne pathogens during filtering procedure. Thus, to detect injured pathogens under the detection limit, an enrichment broth promoting pathogen resuscitation and growth is required.

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Multi-species biofilms are ubiquitous worldwide and are a concern in the food industry. Multi-species biofilms have a higher resistance to antimicrobial therapies than mono-species biofilms. In addition, multi-species biofilms can cause severe foodborne diseases.

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