Browsing by Author "Pillai, Suresh D."
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McElhany, Katherine (2012-02-14)Environmental microbiology has traditionally been performed using culture-based methods. However, in the last few decades, the emergence of molecular methods has changed the field considerably. The latest development in ...
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O'Neil, Benjamin Robert (2019-04-15)Safety, quality, and sensory perception of foods are of paramount importance for food preservation. This study explores the combination of freeze-drying technology with electron beam processing (eBeam) processing to create ...
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Vega, Everardo (Texas A&M University, 2006-10-30)Enteric viruses are responsible for a significant amount of foodborne disease in the United States. Foodborne disease associated with enteric viruses has been increasing within the last few years due to technological ...
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Lu, Lingeng (Texas A&M University, 2006-10-30)Autoinducer 2 (AI-2) is a quorum sensing signal employed by bacteria to coordinate their response to environmental stresses. The objective of this study was to determine the relationship between presence of AI-2 molecules, ...
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Vikram, Amit (2012-07-16)The secondary metabolites of citrus such as limonoids and flavonoids constitute an important part of human diet. The present work was undertaken to elucidate the effect of citrus limonoids and flavonoids on the bacterial ...
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Corkill, Carolina (2013-08-07)Salmonella Typhimurium continues to be a leading cause of human gastroenteritis worldwide. This organism is a facultative intracellular pathogen, meaning that it is able grow and reproduce within the host ...
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Design, testing and optimization of a microfluidic device for capture and concentration of bacteria Cherla, Srinivas (Texas A&M University, 2006-10-30)Effective detection of bacterial pathogens in large sample volumes is a challenging problem. Pre-concentration routines currently in practice before the actual detection process are cumbersome and hard to automate. An ...
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Park, Seungkyung (2009-05-15)Recent advances in microfluidic technologies have enabled integration of the functional units for biological and chemical analysis onto miniaturized chips, called Labon- a-Chip (LOC). However, the effective manipulation ...
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Genomic Approaches to Study Innate Immune Response to Salmonella Enteritidis Infection in Chickens Chiang, Hsin-I (2010-01-14)Salmonella enterica serovar Enteritidis (SE) is one of the most common food-borne pathogens that cause human salmonellosis. Contamination of consumed poultry products continues to be a global threat to public health. Genetic ...
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Wang, Ying (2012-02-14)Avian influenza virus (AIV) is a type A virus of the family Orthomyxoviridae and its outbreaks not only cause economic losses in poultry, but also are worldwide threats to human health. The phenotypic changes in host cells ...
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Bordin, Angela I.; Pillai, Suresh D.; Brake, Courtney; Bagley, Kaytee B.; Bourquin, Jessica R.; Coleman, Michelle; Oliveira, Fabiano N.; Mwangi, Waithaka; McMurray, David N.; Love, Charles C.; Felippe, Maria Julia B.; Cohen, Noah D.; Roop, Roy Martin (PloS One, 2014)
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Widmer, Kenneth Walter (2009-05-15)Bacteria produce and respond to external stimuli using molecules termed autoinducers. Poultry meat contains inhibitors which interfere with AI-2 signaling. The primary objective of this work was to understand the effects ...
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Balasubramanian, Ashwin Kumar (2009-05-15)A microfluidic device, based on electrophoretic transport and electrostatic trapping of charged particles, has been developed for continuous capture and concentration of microorganisms from water. A generic design, utilizing ...
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Englert, Derek Lynn (2011-02-22)The overall goal of this work was to develop and utilize microfluidic models for investigating bacterial chemotaxis and biofilm formation - phenotypes that play key roles in bacterial infections. Classical methods for ...
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Rocha, Joana N.; Cohen, Noah D.; Bordin, Angela I.; Brake, Courtney N.; Giguère, Steeve; Coleman, Michelle C.; Alaniz, Robert C.; Lawhon, Sara D.; Mwangi, Waithaka; Pillai, Suresh D.; Bayry, Jagadeesh (PloS One, 2016)
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Pillai, Suresh D.; Lesikar, Bruce A. (Texas Water Resources Institute, 2003-05)Untreated or improperly treated wastewater has often been cited as the primary contamination source of groundwater. Decentralized wastewater treatment systems have applicability around the world since it obviates the ...
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Singh, Reema (Texas A&M University, 2005-11-01)Salmonella outbreaks associated with orange juices have been reported in the past. Though there have been studies on the internalization of Salmonella into oranges there is inadequate information on the ability of this ...