Updates on the Cronobacter Genus

SJ Forsythe - Annual Review of Food Science and Technology, 2018 - annualreviews.org
There has been considerable concern related to Cronobacter spp. in foods, especially due
to their highlighted association with neonatal infections through the ingestion of …

Cronobacter, the emergent bacterial pathogen Enterobacter sakazakii comes of age; MLST and whole genome sequence analysis

SJ Forsythe, B Dickins, KA Jolley - BMC genomics, 2014 - Springer
Background Following the association of Cronobacter spp. to several publicized fatal
outbreaks in neonatal intensive care units of meningitis and necrotising enterocolitis, the …

Genotyping and source tracking of Cronobacter sakazakii and C. malonaticus isolates from powdered infant formula and an infant formula production factory in China

P Fei, C Man, B Lou, SJ Forsythe, Y Chai… - Applied and …, 2015 - Am Soc Microbiol
Cronobacter spp.(formerly defined as Enterobacter sakazakii) are opportunistic bacterial
pathogens of both infants and adults. In this study, we analyzed 70 Cronobacter isolates …

[HTML][HTML] Isolation, molecular and phenotypic characterization, and antibiotic susceptibility of Cronobacter spp. from Brazilian retail foods

MLL Brandão, NS Umeda, E Jackson, SJ Forsythe… - Food …, 2017 - Elsevier
Several Cronobacter species are opportunistic pathogens that cause infections in humans.
The aim of this study was to detect Cronobacter spp. from 90 samples of retail foods in …

Capsular profiling of the Cronobacter genus and the association of specific Cronobacter sakazakii and C. malonaticus capsule types with neonatal meningitis and …

P Ogrodzki, S Forsythe - BMC genomics, 2015 - Springer
Background Cronobacter sakazakii and C. malonaticus can cause serious diseases
especially in infants where they are associated with rare but fatal neonatal infections such as …

Characterization of Cronobacter spp. isolated from food of plant origin and environmental samples collected from farms and from supermarkets in the Czech Republic

H Vojkovska, R Karpiskova, M Orieskova… - International Journal of …, 2016 - Elsevier
The Cronobacter genus (previously known as Enterobacter sakazakii) comprises seven
species (Cronobacter sakazakii, Cronobacter malonaticus, Cronobacter muytjensii …

Isolation, molecular and phenotypic characterization of Cronobacter spp. in ready-to-eat salads and foods from Japanese cuisine commercialized in Brazil

L Vasconcellos, CT Carvalho, RO Tavares… - Food Research …, 2018 - Elsevier
The aim of this study was to detect Cronobacter from 30 samples of ready-to-eat (RTE)
salads and 30 foods from Japanese cuisine as commercially available in Brazil. The …

Cronobacter sakazakii clinical isolates overcome host barriers and evade the immune response

FS Almajed, SJ Forsythe - Microbial pathogenesis, 2016 - Elsevier
Cronobacter sakazakii is the most frequently clinically isolated species of the Cronobacter
genus. However the virulence factors of C. sakazakii including their ability to overcome host …

Cronobacter sakazakii and Microbiological Parameters in Dairy Formulas Associated With a Food Alert in Chile

J Parra-Flores, F Cerda-Leal, A Contreras… - Frontiers in …, 2018 - frontiersin.org
The objective of this study was to evaluate the presence of Cronobacter sakazakii and
microbiological parameters in dairy products associated with a food alert. Ninety dairy …

High-affinity truncated aptamers for detection of Cronobacter spp with magnetic separation-assisted DNAzyme-driven 3D DNA walker

N Yang, N Ding, S Qi, Z Shang, P Ma, IM Khan… - Microchimica Acta, 2024 - Springer
After optimizing the original aptamer sequence by truncation strategy, a magnetic separation-
assisted DNAzyme-driven 3D DNA walker fluorescent aptasensor was developed for …