As primary carriers of foodborne and zoonotic diseases, spores can pose a serious threat to food microbiology and human disease. Thus, the precise identification of spores is of great significance for ensuring food safety and human health. Herein, ...
International journal of food microbiology
Aug 18, 2025
Foodborne pathogens such as Bacillus cereus threaten food safety, necessitating novel antimicrobial solutions. Antimicrobial peptides (AMPs) offer broad-spectrum activity and potential applications in food preservation. In this study, we designed a l...
Spectrochimica acta. Part A, Molecular and biomolecular spectroscopy
Jul 10, 2025
Detection and real-time tracking of changes in the relative carotenoid content during microbial growth can be extremely challenging. Additionally, analyzing its content cycling time can also be highly difficult. In this study, Raman tweezers were emp...
Marine bacteria have been considered as important participants in revealing various carbon/sulfur/nitrogen cycles of marine ecosystem. Thus, how to accurately identify rare marine bacteria without a culture process is significant and valuable. In thi...
Spectrochimica acta. Part A, Molecular and biomolecular spectroscopy
Dec 7, 2022
Accurately, rapidly, and noninvasively identifying Bacillus spores can greatly contribute to controlling a plenty of infectious diseases. Laser tweezers Raman spectroscopy (LTRS) has confirmed to be a powerful tool for studying Bacillus spores at a s...
Food research international (Ottawa, Ont.)
Jun 30, 2021
Clostridium sporogenes spores are used as surrogates for Clostridium botulinum, to verify thermal exposure and lethality in sterilization regimes by food industries. Conventional methods to detect spores are time-consuming and labour intensive. The o...
Spectrochimica acta. Part A, Molecular and biomolecular spectroscopy
Dec 28, 2019
Clostridium perfringens (C. perfringens) has the ability to form metabolically-dormant spores that can survive food preservation processes and cause food spoilage and foodborne safety risks upon germination outgrowth. This study was conducted to inve...
Brazilian journal of microbiology : [publication of the Brazilian Society for Microbiology]
Dec 18, 2018
The oral administration of non-toxigenic strains of Clostridioides difficile (NTCD) is currently showing promising results for the prevention of Clostridioides difficile infection (CDI) in humans and animals, and is being considered as a possible com...
Growth/no growth boundary models for Bacillus spores that accounted for the effects of environmental pH, water activity (a), acetic acid, lactic acid, bacterial strain, and storage period were developed using conventional logistic regression and mach...
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