individual publications

• academic article

  • Landscape and Meteorological Factors Affecting Prevalence of Three Foodborne Pathogens in Fruit and Vegetable Farms. .  Applied Environmental Microbiology.  79:588-600. 2013
  • Listeria monocytogenes and hemolytic Listeria innocua in poultry..  Poultry Science.  91:2158-2163. 2012
  • Silage collected from dairy farms harbors an abundance of listeriaphages with considerable host range and genome size diversity..  Applied and Environmental Microbiology.  78:8666-8675. 2012
  • Prevalence, distribution, and diversity of Listeria monocytogenes in retail environments, focusing on small establishments and establishments with a history of failed inspections.  Journal of Food Protection.  74:1083-1095. 2011
  • A population and phylogenetic approach to understand the evolution of virulence in the genus Listeria.  Applied and Environmental Microbiology.  76:6085-6100. 2010
  • Listeria marthii sp. nov., isolated from the natural environment, Finger Lakes National Forest.  International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology.  60:1280. 2010
  • Multilocus sequence typing of outbreak-associated Listeria monocytogenes to identify epidemic clones.  Foodborne Pathogens and Disease.  7:257. 2010
  • Salt stress phenotypes in Listeria monocytogenes vary by genetic lineage and temperature.  Foodborne Pathogens and Disease.  7:1537-1549. 2010
  • Prevalence and molecular diversity of Listeria monocytogenes in retail establishments.  Journal of Food Protection.  72. 2009
  • Lineage specific recombination rates and microevolution in Listeria monocytogenes.  BMC Evolutionary Biology.  8:277. 2008
  • inlA premature stop codons are common among Listeria monocytogenes isolated from foods and yield virulence-attenuated strains that confer protection against infection by fully virulent L. monocytogenes strains.  Applied Environmental Microbiology.  74:6570-6583. 2008
  • Multilocus sequence typing supports that cattle and human associated Salmonella represent distinct and overlapping populations.  Applied and Environmental Microbiology.  72:7575-7585. 2006
  • Evaluation of farm-management practices as risk factor for clinical listeriosis and fecal shedding of Listeria monocytogenes in ruminants.  J Am Vet Med Assoc.  227:1808-1814. 2005
  • Distribution of Listeria monocytogenes molecular subtypes among human and food .  Journal of Food Protection.  67. 2004
  • Ecology and transmission of Listeria monocytogenes infecting ruminants and in the farm environment.  Applied and Environmental Microbiology.  70:4458-4467. 2004
  • Listeria monocytogenes from foods and humans form distinct but overlapping populations.  Applied Environmental Microbiology.  70:5833-5841. 2004
  • Natural atypical Listeria innocua strains with Listeria monocytogenes pathogenicity island 1 genes.  Applied and Environmental Microbiology.  70:4256-4266. 2004
  • Molecular subtyping to detect human listeriosis clusters.  Emerg. Infect. Dis.  9. 2003

• conference paper

  • Pathogens in Produce Production Environments: A Longitudinal Study of Fruit and Vegetable Farms in New York State.  2011 IAFP Annual Conference Proceedings. 2011
  • Isolation and Detection of Listeria monocytogenes , E. coli O157:H7, non-O157 shiga Toxin Producing E. coli and Salmonella from Produce Farms.  Cornell University’s Infection and Pathobiology Annual Retreat, Owego, NY, October 2010. 2010