This month in Food Micro Minutes, Emma Farquharson and Genevieve Sullivan discuss Salmonella response to high-pressure processing, fruit flies as potential vectors of foodborne illness, the involvement of hly and prfA in Listeria biofilm formation, and heat stability of Lactococcus lactis phage due to mutations within the tape measure protein.

Papers discussed in this month’s episode:

Tamber, S. (2018). Population-Wide Survey of Salmonella enterica Response to High-Pressure Processing Reveals a Diversity of Responses and Tolerance Mechanisms. Appl Environ Microbiol, 84(2). doi:10.1128/aem.01673-17

Black, E. P., Hinrichs, G. J., Barcay, S. J., & Gardner, D. B. (2018). Fruit Flies as Potential Vectors of Foodborne Illness. J Food Prot, 509-514. doi:10.4315/0362-028x.Jfp-17-255

Price, R., Jayeola, V., Niedermeyer, J., Parsons, C., & Kathariou, S. (2018). The Listeria monocytogenes Key Virulence Determinants hly and prfA are involved in Biofilm Formation and Aggregation but not Colonization of Fresh Produce. Pathogens, 7(1). doi:10.3390/pathogens7010018

Geagea, H., Labrie, S. J., Subirade, M., & Moineau, S. (2018). The Tape Measure Protein Is Involved in the Heat Stability of Lactococcus lactis Phages. Appl Environ Microbiol, 84(3). doi:10.1128/aem.02082-17