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TRENDS IN MICROBIOLOGY
Volume 19, Issue 3, Pages 121-127Publisher
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.tim.2010.11.007
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- Florida Tomato Committee, Florida Specialty Crop Foundation
- Center for Produce Safety, University of California, Davis
- California Department of Food and Agriculture of Florida Agricultural Experiment Station [SCB09052, 0208876]
- USDA-NIFA
- Ontario Ministry of Agriculture and Food, and International Life Science Institute, North American Division
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Recent outbreaks of vegetable-borne gastrointestinal illnesses across the globe demonstrate that human enteric pathogens can contaminate produce at any stage of production. Interactions of enterics with native plant-associated microbiota influence the microbiological safety of produce by affecting the attachment, persistence and proliferation of human pathogens on plants. Supermarket surveys have revealed that bacteria, but not fungi or mechanical damage, promote the growth of Salmonella enterica on produce. Field and laboratory studies have indicated that some plant pathogenic bacteria and fungi facilitate the entry and internalization of human pathogens in plants. Conversely, some phytobacteria, including those involved in biocontrol of plant diseases, significantly inhibit attachment and plant colonization by non-typhoidal Salmonella and enterovirulent Escherichia coli by producing antibiotics or competing for nutrients in the phyllosphere. In this review, we attempt to elucidate the mechanisms of interactions between human enteric pathogens and plant-associated microbiota, and describe how these interactions affect produce safety.
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