Foodborne Pathogens and Illnesses
A special issue of International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (ISSN 1660-4601). This special issue belongs to the section "Environmental Microbiology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (28 February 2022) | Viewed by 8239
Special Issue Editors
Interests: food microbiology; food-borne pathogens; biofilm; antimicrobial resistance; microbiome; genomics; transcriptomics
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Interests: breast milk; functional components; baby food; probiotics; microbiota; food-borne pathogens; food safety; analytical chemistry; chromatography; mass spectrometry; omics
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
In recent years, the study of microbiota has revolutionized most fields of research in the biological sciences. Microbiota have a fundamental role in both human and animal health and disease. In the specific case of gut microbiota, they act as a second barrier against colonization by pathogens, regulate the development and maturation of the immune system, provide beneficial metabolites for host nutrition, and, more importantly, have a functional influence on each component that maintains intestinal homeostasis. While healthy microbiota can promote resistance to colonization by pathogenic species, dysbiosis or a microbial imbalance may promote the expansion or enhanced virulence of pathogenic populations. As a classical example, antibiotics can modify taxonomic, genomic, and functional features of gut microbiota, resulting in colonization by such pathogens as Clostridium difficile. In addition, saccharolytic members of the microbiota can be liberated from sugars in mucus layers as sialic acid or fucose that can be used by Salmonella typhimurium as a source of energy, promoting its growth. However, healthy microbiota also have mechanisms for protection. For example, short-chain fatty acids produced by the bacterial metabolism can inhibit the growth of pathogens and enhance the production of antimicrobial peptides by immune cells. In contrast, bacteriocins and bacteriophages can inhibit the growth of specific bacterial groups.
This Special Issue welcomes original research articles and literature reviews on interactions between pathogens and microbiota or specific components of microbiota, such as bacterial metabolites. This Special Issue also welcomes studies on the development of new strategies for modulating microbiota to make them resistant to bacterial infections.
Dr. Alexandre Lamas
Dr. Patricia Regal
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- microbiota
- microbiota modulation
- pathogen
- antimicrobial resistance
- host
- inflammation
- bacteriocin
- bacteriophage
- quorum sensing
- stress hormones
