Bacteriophages for detection and control of foodborne bacterial pathogens—The case of Bacillus cereus and their phages

Bacillus cereus is among the primary food‐poisoning pathogenic bacterium that causes diarrhea and emetic types of diseases throughout the world. Recent advances show that bacteriophages become important tools in detection and control of foodborne bacterial pathogens in foods. They gain the interest...

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Published in:Journal of food safety 2023-04, Vol.43 (2), p.n/a
Main Authors: Abraha, Haftom Baraki, Kim, Kwang‐Pyo, Sbhatu, Desta Berhe
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Bacillus cereus
Bacteria
Diarrhea
Food contamination & poisoning
Food industry
Food poisoning
Food safety
Foodborne diseases
Foodborne pathogens
Pathogens
Phages
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Summary:Bacillus cereus is among the primary food‐poisoning pathogenic bacterium that causes diarrhea and emetic types of diseases throughout the world. Recent advances show that bacteriophages become important tools in detection and control of foodborne bacterial pathogens in foods. They gain the interest of researchers for the food industries mainly because they are host‐specific and harmless to humans. Studies showed that bacteriophages could be employed as natural or engineered, whole or part, and temperate or virulent type in designing a range of tools for the detection and control of foodborne bacterial pathogens. This article discusses the recent methods and advances in the utilization strategies of bacteriophages in detection and control of foodborne pathogens, with particular focus on B. cereus pathogen. Moreover, the article presents the latest and relevant information of B. cereus‐infecting phages with respect to their potential applications in foods to address food safety issues. It also reflects future research directions by indicating gap of studies on the area. Boxplot illustrating the distribution of Bacillus cereus phages in terms of their genome lengths and lifecycles. The box depicts the middle 50% of the data, the horizontal bar within the box represents the median (50'th percentile), the square in the box indicates the group mean value, the top and bottom of the box are the 25'th and 75'th percentiles, respectively and the distance between them is interquartile range (IQR) from which the whiskers are calculated as IQR +1.5
ISSN:0149-6085
1745-4565
DOI:10.1111/jfs.12906