The laboratory of Food Microbiology and Hygiene conducts basic and applied research projects on food-borne or waterborne pathogens that cause infectious diseases or food poisoning impacting on human health and food safety using food hygienic, microbiological and genetic approaches.

1) Ecology of foodborne bacterial pathogens in environments; microbial control using hurdle technology in foods; antibacterial activity of plant-extracts and its use in food preservation (Nakano, H.)

2) Pathogenicity, antimicrobial resistance and retron reverse transcriptases in foodborne pathogens; detection and disinfection of norovirus (Shimamoto, T.)

Food-borne pathogens, Microbial control, Reverse transcriptase,Antimicrobial resistance, Endolysin, Norovirus

DNA analysis of Salmonella isolated from the natural environment

Induction of mutations in Escherichia coli by reverse transcriptase

Specific cell lysis of Clostridium perfringens by endolysin

Cui,H., Gabriel,A., Nakano,H., (2011) Heat-sensitizing effects of plant extracts on Clostridium spp. spores. Food Control 22: 99-104.

Gabriel, A., Nakano,H., (2011) Effects of culture conditions on the subsequent heat inactivation of E. coli O157:H7 in apple juice. Food Control 22: 456-1460.

Cui, H., Gabriel, A., Nakano, H., (2010) Antimicrobial efficacies of plant extracts and sodium nitrite against Clostridium botulinum. Food Control 21: 1030-1036.

Gabriel.A., Nakano,H., (2010) Influences of simultaneous physicochemical stress exposures on injury and subsequent responses of E.coli O157:H7 to resuscitative and inactivate challenges. Int.J.FoodMicrobiol. 139: 182-192.

Elnahriry, S. S., Khalifa, H. O., Soliman, A. M., Ahmed, A. M., Hussein, A. H., Shimamoto, T., Shimamoto, T. (2016) Emergence of plasmid-mediated colistin resistance gene, mcr-1, in a clinical Escherichia coli isolate from Egypt. Antimicrob. Agents Chemother. 60: 3249-3250.

Ahmed, A. M., Shimamoto, T. (2015) Molecular analysis of multidrug resistance in Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli O157:H7 isolated from meat and dairy products. Int. J. Food Microbiol. 193: 68-73.

Kamimoto, M., Nakai, Y., Tsuji, T., Shimamoto, T., Shimamoto, T. (2014) Antiviral effects of persimmon extract on human norovirus and its surrogate, bacteriophage MS2. J. Food Sci. 79: M941-M946.

Shimamoto, T., Ahmed, A. M., Shimamoto, T. (2013) A novel retron of Vibrio parahaemolyticus is closely related to retron-Vc95 of Vibrio cholerae. J. Microbiol. 51: 323-328.

Professor     Nakano, H.
Professor     Shimamoto, T.

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