individual publications

• academic article

  • Public Health Impact of Listeria monocytogenes Cross-contamination of Deli Meats at Retail Level.  Journal of Food Protection.  74:1860-1868. 2011
  • Quantitative Risk Assessment of Listeriosis-associated Deaths due to Listeria monocytogenes contamination of deli meats originating from manufacture and retail.  Journal of Food Protection.  73:620-630. 2010
  • Fecal Shedding, antimicrobial resistance, and serological response to Salmonella Typhimurium in dairy calves.  Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association.  235:739-748. 2009
  • Modeling of spatially referenced environmental and meteorological factors influencing the probability of Listeria spp. isolation from natural environments.  Applied Environmental Microbiology.  75:5893-5909. 2009
  • Differential regulation of Listeria monocytogenes internalin and internalin-like genes by σB and PrfA as revealed by subgenomic microarray analyses.  Foodborne Pathogens and Disease.  5:417-435. 2008
  • How university researchers can contribute to Farm-to-Table Risk Assessments: Listeria monocytogenes as an Example.  Foodborne Pathogens and Disease.  4:527-537. 2007
  • Listeria monocytogenes fecal shedding in dairy cattle shows high levels of day-to-day variation and includes outbreaks and sporadic cases of shedding of specific L. monocytogenes subtypes.  Prev Vet Med.  80:287-305. 2007
  • Markov chain approach to analyze the dynamics of pathogen fecal shedding - Example of Listeria monocytogenes shedding in a herd of dairy cattle.  J Theor Biol.  245. 2007
  • Optimal Levels of Inputs to Control Listeria Monocytogenes Contamination at a Smoked Fish Plant.  Agribusiness.  23:229-244. 2007
  • Temperature-dependent expression of Listeria monocytogenes internalin and internalin-like genes suggests functional diversity for these proteins among the listeriae.  Applied Environmental Microbiology.  73:2806-2814. 2007
  • Listeria monocytogenes in Multiple Habitats and Host Populations: Review of Available Data for Mathematical Modeling.  Foodborne Pathogens and Disease.  3:319-336. 2006
  • Mathematical model of Listeria monocytogenes cross-contamination in a fish processing plant.  Journal of Food Protection.  67:2688-2697. 2004
  • The cost and benefit of Listeria Monocytogenes food safety measures.  Critical Reviews in Food Science and Nutrition.  44:513-523. 2004

• conference paper

  • Background correction and normalization for cDNA microarray data.  Proceedings of the 2006 International Symposium on Veterinary Epidemiology and Economics (ISVEE). 2006
  • Predictive model of Listeria monocytogenes fecal shedding in a dairy herd.  Proceedings of the 2006 International Symposium on Veterinary Epidemiology and Economics (ISVEE). 2006
  • Optimal Levels of Inputs under Risk to Control Listeria monocytogenes Contamination at a Smoked Fish Plant.  2005 American Agricultural Economic Association Meetings,. 2005
  • Optimal Levels of Inputs under Risk to Control Listeria monocytogenes Contamination at a Smoked Fish Plant.  SCC-76 meeting, Economics and Management of Risk in Agriculture and Natural Resources. 2005

• conference poster

  • Quantitative risk assessment on the effect of Listeria monocytogenes contamination in deli meats originating from manufacture and retail, on listeriosis cases. 2009