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        • 2021 - Present
          • Consumer Evaluation of Plant-Based Ground Beef Alternatives (GBA) in “Real-World” Eating Scenarios
          • Evaluating the Impact of Early Post-mortem Temperature Variation of Beef Muscle Tenderness and Color Development
          • Utilizing the F94L Myostatin Gene in Beef-on-Dairy Breeding Systems to Increase Carcass Value and Improve Beef Profitability
          • Sensory and Chemical Characterization of Ground Beef and Plant-Based Protein Alternatives
          • Suitability of Beef x Dairy Crosses as Moderate-sized Subprimal Alternatives for the Foodservice Industry
        • 2016 - 2020
          • A Preliminary Study to Investigate the Contribution of Different Tenderness Factors to Beef Loin, Tri-Tip and Heel Tenderness
          • A Study to Investigate the Contribution of Different Tenderness Components to Individual Beef Muscle Tenderness in 8 Major Beef Muscles
          • Beef Flavor Beyond Fat
          • Beef Flavor Myology 2
          • Capabilities of REIMS
          • Consumer Acceptance and Shear Force Values of Top Sirloin Steaks Prepared using Sous Vide Versus Flat-Top Grill Cookery Methods
          • Consumer Thresholds for Beef Tenderness and Juiciness
          • Contribution of Mitochondrial Function to Beef Longissimus Flavor, Tenderness, and Color Stability Across pH Class
          • Determination of Objective and Subjective Juiciness
          • Determination of Optimum Practices for Frozen Whole-Muscle Steaks
          • Determination of Package and Muscle Type Influence
          • Determining Specifications for Tenderness Claims of Beef Top Sirloin by Comparing Top Sirloin and Strip Loin as Impacted by Quality Grade Program, Grading Camera Predicted Slice Shear Force Class, and Postmortem Aging Time
          • Development of Volatile and Non-Volatile Flavor Compounds
          • Do Carcass Weight and Ribeye Size Impact Beef Palatability
          • Do Market-Driven Storage Conditions (Fresh versus Frozen) of Subprimals and Steaks Impact Beef Tenderness and Consumer Acceptability?
          • Effect of Beef Carcass Size and Aging Period on Display Color, Tenderness, and Palatability of Steaks from the Inside Round
          • Effect of Liver Abscess Severity on Meat Tenderness and Sensory Attributes
          • Effects of Cooking Temperature and Degree of Doneness on Tenderness and Flavor
          • Evaluating Effects of ABX Spray on Flavor
          • Evaluating Rapid Evaporative Ionization Mass Spectrometry
          • Factors Affecting Palatability
          • Fatty Acid Composition, Percentage Intramuscular Lipids, and Beef Tenderness, Juiciness, and Flavor
          • Flavor Audit
          • Flavor Myology
          • Flavor Phase II
          • Grilling Temperature Effects on Tenderness and Juiciness of Steaks
          • Impact of Aging on Tenderness and Flavor
          • Impact of Carcass Size Rate of Chilling and Electrical Stimulation
          • Improved Beef Quality and Palatability through Novel Fresh Beef Tumbling and Aging
          • Influence of Increasing Carcass Weight
          • Influence of Meat Packaging
          • Investigating the Impact of Temperature During Transport on Fresh Beef Yield and Color Stability
          • Metabolomics
          • Modeling Beef Flavor
          • National Beef Tenderness Survey – 2020
          • Native Beef MMP-9 may Contribute to Postmortem Collagen Degradation in Extended Aged Beef
          • Optimization of Beef Wet Aging to Maximize Flavor and Tenderness
          • Palatability of Individual Beef Steaks in Vacuum Rollstock Packaging after Extended Dark Storage or Retail Display
          • Predicting Beef Flavor
          • Studies In Cookery and Beef Flavor
          • The Deep Chill Process: A Novel Approach for Increasing Yield, Enhancing Tenderness, Stabilizing Microbial Soundness of Fresh Beef Cuts while Improving the Overall Efficiency of the US Beef Industry
          • Understanding the Effect of Phenotype Expression in the Dairy Beef Model on Beef Quality
          • Understanding the Impact of Reduced Water Use Beef Spray Chilling System on Beef Carcass Quality and Saleable Yield
          • Understanding the Influence of Beef x Dairy Crossbred Cattle on Eating Quality, Retail Display and Chemical Composition in Beef Strip Loins
          • Using Metabolomics to Predict and Guarantee Beef Flavor to the Consumer
        • 2011 - 2015
          • Aging and Tenderization of Gluteus Medius
          • Aging Vacuum-Packaged Steaks Versus Subprimals
          • Analysis of Quality of Non-Traditional Beef Grind
          • Beef Flavor Attributes and Consumer Perception
          • Beef Flavor Attributes and Consumer Perceptions
          • Beef Flavor Attributes for Millennials
          • Beef Flavor Attributes for Millennials In-Home Placement Study
          • Beef Flavor Kinetics and Thermodynamic Properties of Whole Muscle and Ground Beef
          • Beef Rib Alternative
          • Beef Tenderness Survey
          • Carcass Maturity on Eating Quality
          • Characterizing Products from Beef Rib
          • Compounds Responsible for Positive Beef Flavor
          • Consumer Attitudes of Predicted Flavor Aromas in Steaks
          • Consumer Preferences for Beef Flavor Characteristics
          • Defects Caused by Antimicrobial Interventions
          • Determination of Aromatic Production from Surface Browning
          • Development of Pictorial Color Guide
          • Development of Relative Aroma Intensity Values
          • Discovering Ground Beef Performance through "Premium Grind" Concepts
          • Effect of Beef Strip Loin Enhancement
          • Effect of Implant Strategy and Supplementation
          • Effect of Packaging Type and Storage Temperature on the Quality
          • Effects of Aging on the Color Intensity and Stability of Beef
          • Effects of Carcass Maturity on Eating Quality of Beef Produced
          • Effects of Extended Aging on Shelf Life
          • Effects of Growth Promotant Technologies
          • Effects of Post Mortem Aging Time and Type on Quality
          • Effects of Subprimal Type Quality Grade and Aging Time on Display Color
          • Effects of Various Post Mortem Aging Periods
          • Flavor Drivers for Light and Heavy Beef Eaters
          • Flavor of Ground Beef I
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          • Flavor of Steaks of Varying Fat Levels
          • Ground Beef Quality from Premium or Commodity Trim
          • Identifying Factors Contributing to Beef Flavor and Tenderness
          • Impact of Beef Chuck Muscle Isolation on Retail Premium Ground Programs
          • Impact of Elevated Aging Temps
          • Impact of Relative Humidity During Cooking
          • Improving Tenderness with Commercial Implementation of Freeze Age Process
          • Increasing Glucose or Glucose Precursors to Increase Beef Quality and Juiciness
          • Increasing Marbling Gene Expression with Dietary Lipids
          • Influence of Production History and Lean Muscle Characteristics Beef Flavor Atributes
          • Investigation of Beef Flavor
          • Long Postmortem Aging Effects Beef Top Loin and Top Sirloin Steaks
          • Management Factors Affecting Inherent Beef Flavor
          • Mechanism of Meat Tenderization During Oxidation
          • Physiological Mechanisms Regulating Development of Marbling
          • Postmortem Aging Specifications Needed to Ensure Tenderness in the Top Sirloin
          • Postmortem Aging Times for Beef Steaks Marketed through the Retail Channel
          • Precursors to Beef Flavor
          • Prediction of Beef Flavor by Precursor and Volatile Compounds
          • Preference for Beef Flavors Among Consumers
          • Pressed Juice Percentage Method
          • Producing Premium Grinds with Brisket Trimmings
          • Retail Beef Tenderness Surveillance
          • Sensory Flavor Analysis of Beef Steaks
          • Skeletal Muscle Differentially Influences Marbling Development
          • Steak Thickness and Foodservice Cooking Methods on Consumer Perceptions
          • Supplementation of Glycerol or Fructose to Enhance Marbling
          • Targeted Aging for Beef
          • The Influence of Diet on Calcium Flux
          • Thermodynamics of Steaks
          • Using High Pressure Pasteurization as Tenderness Process
          • Vitamin C Supplementation
        • 2006 - 2010
          • Acid Marination For Tenderness Enhancement
          • Adding Value to Non Conforming Beef Carcasses
          • Alternative Fabrication Methods
          • Anionic Mineral Supplementation
          • Application of a Collagen Based Functional Beef Protein
          • Beef Carcass Value Optimization
          • BioBullet Versus Traditional Injection Techniques on Tissue Damage and Tenderness
          • Blended Lipid Solutions to Enhance Nutritional Value Ground Beef
          • Carcass Quality and Longissimus Tenderness
          • Carcass Value Optimization Web Application
          • Cause and Prevention of Liver Flavor
          • Characterizing Beef Heel Muscle
          • Characterizing Quality and Composition
          • Color Stability Fatty Acid Profile and Shelf Life of Ground Chuck and Round
          • Consumer Preference of Steak Thickness
          • Development of a Beef Flavor Lexicon
          • Development of a Cutting Test Tutorial
          • Differentiation of Beef Flavor 1
          • Differentiation of Beef Flavor 2
          • DNA Marker Technology
          • Economic Value of a Beef Tenderness-based Fed Cattle Valuation System
          • Effect of Calf Morbidity on Quality
          • Effect of Distillers Grain on Performance
          • Effect of Genetic Tenderness Markers in Cattle
          • Effect of Low Voltage Electrical Stimulation
          • Effect of Needle Tenderization Aging Time and Aging Temperature on Proteolysis and Tenderness
          • Effect of Wet Distillers Grains on Marbling Score
          • Effects of Beta-adrenergic Agonist in Market Dairy Cows
          • Effects of Delayed Steroid Implanting
          • Effects of Dietary Fat
          • Effects of Distillers Grains and Corn Processing on Marbling
          • Effects of Implanting and Feeding Zilpaterol
          • Effects of Low Dose Surface Irradiation
          • Effects of Metabolites on Beef Color
          • Effects of Supplementing Dried Distillers Grains
          • Enhance Marbling and Meat Quality Using Crude Glycerol
          • Enhancing Beef Tenderness
          • Evaluating Impacts of Gender on Fatness Muscling and Weight on the Cutability
          • Evaluating the Influence of Oil and Fiber in Fat Deposition
          • Exploring Needle Free Injection Enhancement
          • Feed Efficiency and Carcass Traits
          • Feeding Ractopamine Hydrochloride
          • Genomic Economic Selection Indexes for Enhancing Carcass Value
          • Genotype and Growth Enhancement Technologies
          • High Resolution Imaging and Tenderness
          • Hyperspectral Imaging to Predict Tenderness and Marbling Score
          • Impact of Cutting Procedures on Tenderness Properties of Beef Knuckle
          • Impact of Post-Harvest Interventions on the Color Stability
          • Impact of VISNIR on Other Muscles of the Carcass
          • Impact of Vitamin E and Wet Distillers Grains on Shelf Life
          • Improving Tenderness of Underutilized Muscles from Pasture Fed Steers
          • Improving Tenderness of Vastus Lateralis Muscles
          • Improving the Quality of the Beef Round With Electrical Stimulation
          • Inhibiting Ruminal Lipolysis
          • Innovative Fabrication Methods
          • Low Fat Wet Distillers Grains and Beef Quality
          • Managing Dietary Crude Protein to Increase Marbling Disposition
          • Mapping of Intramuscular Tenderness in the Round
          • Mapping Tenderness of Serratus Ventralis
          • Merchandising Ribeye and Striploin
          • National Beef Tenderness Survey 2010
          • Near Infrared and in-Plant Video Image Analysis Systems
          • New Beef Tenderness Theory
          • Packaging Atmospheres and Injection Enhancement on Tenderness Sensory Traits and Color
          • Physiological Mechanisms Regulating Development of Marbling and Muscle
          • Prediction and Assessment of Genomic Breeding
          • Profiling of the Splenius
          • Quantifying the Aging Response for Muscles in the Round
          • Rectus Femoris and Vastus Lateralis Steaks as Substitutions for Beef Top Sirloin Steaks
          • Reducing Effects of Pre-Harvest Stress on Beef Quality
          • Regulation of Marbling Development in Beef Cattle by Specific Fatty Acids
          • Relationships of USDA Camera Based Quality Grades to Beef Palatability
          • Role of Fatty Acids at Enhancing Marbling Development
          • Round Muscle Profiling
          • Shelf Life of Veal Shoulder During Cooler Aging
          • Slice Shear Force of Longissimus and Gluteus Medius
          • Solubilized Proteins as an Alternative to Phosphates
          • Strategies for Variation in Functional Properties of Chuck and Round
          • Super Saturation Oxygen Packaging to Improve Lean Color
          • Temperament Indicator Traits to Predict Growth Performance and Beef Tenderness
          • Tenderness Flavor Yield Assessments
          • Tenderness of Veal Shoulder
          • Threshold Levels for Warner Bratzler Shear Force
          • Use of Video Imaging Technology to Predict Sensory Quality
          • Using Calcium Lactate to Improve Quality of Round Muscles
          • Using Genomically Enabled Selection Strategies to Improve Tenderness
          • Vaccination Response and Weaning on Growth and Quality
          • Value Optimization of Muscles from the Veal Chuck
          • Validation of Tenderness Prediction Instruments
        • 2001 - 2005
          • Accelerated Chilling and Packaging Effects
          • Aging Index Long Term Muscles
          • Aging Index Short Term Muscles
          • Antioxidant Impregnated Packaging Films
          • Beef Carcass Fabrication Strategies Mexico
          • Beef Computer Assisted Retail Decision Support CARDS
          • Beef Muscles and Processing Treatments for Use in Fajita Applications
          • Biochemical and Physical Properties
          • Biochemical Raw and Cooked Color Characteristics
          • Black Bone Condition
          • Blade Tenderization and Vacuum Tumbling
          • Cataloging Beef Muscles
          • Characterization of Denuded Beef Muscles
          • Characterization of Intramuscular Adipogenesis
          • Combining 25 Hydroxyvitamin D3 and VitaminE to Improve Tenderness
          • Cookery Methods for Optimizing Muscles
          • Cow Muscle Profiling Phase A
          • Determine the Genetic and Phenotypic Variances of Meat Quality Traits
          • Determining Proper Use of Beef Chuck and Round Muscles
          • Do Heifer Finishing Implants Affect Beef Tenderness
          • Does CO Improve Shelf Life in Case Ready Packaging Systems
          • Effect of Aging on Warner Bratzler Shear Force
          • Effect of Cold Pasteurization
          • Effect of Meat Packaging Technologies on Spoilage Characteristics
          • Effect of Moisture Enhancement
          • Effect of NH4OH and CO on Palatability and Color
          • Effects of Breed on Human Health Related Components of Beef
          • Effects of Feeding Regimen and Enhancement on Quality Characteristics
          • Effects of Muscle Type Enhancement and Cooking Technique on Underutilized Cuts
          • Effects of Optaflexx
          • Effects of Temperament and Pre Harvest Stress on Tenderness
          • Engineering Optical Biosensors to Detect Calpastatin
          • Enhancement of Beef Subprimals
          • Extending Shelf Life of Beef Cuts
          • Factors Affecting Myoglobin Color Reversion in Cooked Ground Beef
          • Factors that Cause Livery Flavor
          • Factors that Impact Premature Browning
          • Fiber Optic Characterization of Tenderness
          • Flavor Volatiles
          • Green Discoloration in Lesions Packaged in High oxygen Modified atmosphere Packages
          • Greening Reaction in Beef Injection Site Lesions
          • Hyperspectral Near Infrared Spectroscopy and Imaging for Tenderness Determination
          • Impact of Feeding D3
          • Improving the Accuracy of Tenderness Categorization
          • In Home Consumer Evaluations of Individual Muscles
          • Influence of Case Ready Packaging
          • Influence of Enhancement and Blade Tenderization
          • Innovative Wholesale Carcass Fabrication
          • Management Practices To Minimize Tenderness Variation
          • Mapping the Muscle Fiber
          • Mitigation of Off Flavor
          • Muscle Profile of Value Added Beef
          • Optimization Guide for Value Added Beef Cuts
          • Optimize the Quality Consistency and Shelf Life
          • Packaging and Product Effects
          • Predicting Longissimus Tenderness Using VISNIR
          • Prediction of Beef Carcass Cut Out Yields
          • Prediction of Beef Tenderness
          • Properties of Cow and Beef Muscles
          • Quality Attribute Characterization Long Term Muscles
          • Quality Grade and Aging Time on Top Sirloin Tenderness
          • Ranking Beef Muscles
          • Standardization of Slice Shear Force
          • Stress Response Muscle Tenderness
          • Supplementation Fed Steers
          • The Effects of Fresh and Frozen Storage
          • Use of Citrate in Enhancement Solutions
          • Using New Infrared Systems
          • Using Serum Chemistry
          • Volatile Compounds Contributions to Off Flavors
          • Warner Bratzler Shear Force and Consumer Evaluations of M. Serratus
        • 2000 and Prior
          • An Evaluation of the BeefCam
          • An Evaluation of the Dual Component VIASCAN™
          • Beef Tenderness Instrument Phase I
          • Biochemical Characterization of Meat Tenderness
          • Determining the Value of Tenderness Classified Beef Cuts
          • Development of a Palatability Assurance PACCP
          • Domestic and International Shelf Life Strategic Alliance
          • Effects of Postmortem Aging on Beef Tenderness
          • Effects of Supplemental Vitamin D3
          • Grid Pricing
          • Identifying Guaranteed Tender Beef Cuts
          • Importance and Control of Purge in Vacuum
          • Incidence of Dark Cutting Beef
          • Mechanisms of Genetic Control of Beef
          • Muscle Profiling of the Chuck and Round
          • Objective Assessment of Beef Quality
          • Postmortem Vascular Infusion of Calcium Chloride
          • Process Upgrades for Beef Chuck
          • Tenderness CCPs Data Analysis
          • The Value of Beef Flavor
          • Use of Vitamin D3 and its Metabolites
          • Using Measurements of Muscle Color
          • Using Vitamin D3 to Improve Beef Tenderness
      • Executive Summary
        • Non-Conforming Beef Research Summit
    • Human Nutrition
      • White Papers
        • Beef as a First Food
        • Rediscovering Protein's Role in the Optimal Human Diet
        • Meat Secretariat’s Symposium
        • Stearic Acid
        • An Evolving Nutrition Focus
        • Lean Matters
        • The Role of Beef in Physical Activity
        • Trans fat
        • Lean Beef and Heart Health
        • Beef’s Nutrients and Cognition
      • Fact Sheets
        • Beef and Health: A Fresh Look at Today's Beef
        • Epidemiology 101
        • Iron
        • Beef Lipids in Perspective
        • Zinc
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        • Current and Near-Market Intervention Strategies for Reducing STEC
        • History of Consumer Food Safety Education Focus on Beef
        • Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus
        • Pre-Harvest Control of E. coli O157:H7
        • Salmonella White Paper
        • Shiga Toxin-Producing Escherichia coli
        • Shiga Toxin-Producing Escherichia coli (STEC) Ecology
        • Understanding Potential Cattle Contribution to Leafy Green Outbreaks
      • Fact Sheets
        • Antibiotic Resistance
        • Beef Decontamination Technologies
        • CRISPR in Livestock and Food Safety: Beyond Genome Editing
        • Food Allergies
        • Introduction to the Interpretation of WGS
        • Irradiation
        • MRSA
        • Non-Intact Beef
        • Pre-Harvest Interventions
        • Preventing Antibiotic Residues
        • Safety Timeline
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        • Ticks and Mammalian Meat Allergy
        • Validation Versus Verification
        • What You Need to Know About E. coli
        • Whole Genome Sequencing 101
      • Project Summaries
        • 2021 - Present
          • Association of ISVsa3 with Multidrug Resistance in Salmonella enterica Isolates from Cattle (Bos taurus)
            • Quantifying How Whole-Dairy and Large-Scale Feedlot Application of a Pre-Harvest Fermentation Product Reduces Salmonella in Lymph Nodes
          • Identification of Actionable Sentinels for Salmonella Contamination of Lymph Nodes and Determining the Impact of Environmental Contamination Levels
          • Microbiome Risk Factors for Salmonella Within the Beef Feedlot Pen Environment
          • Modeling the Public Health Risk Contributed by Salmonella in Bovine Lymph Nodes in Relation to Expected Prevalence and Quantity in Ground Beef
          • Quantifying How Whole-Dairy and Large-Scale Feedlot Application of a Pre-Harvest Fermentation Product Reduces Salmonella in Lymph Nodes
          • Reduction of Pathogens in Fecal and Lymph Node Samples Collected from Beef Cattle Treated with Commercially Available Direct-Fed Microbials
          • Synbiotics, a Promising Alternative to Reduce Antibiotic Use in Beef Cattle Production
          • The Use of Probiotic Megasphaera elsdenii as a Pre-Harvest Intervention to Reduce Salmonella in Finishing Beef Cattle: An in vitro Model
        • 2016 - 2020
          • Alternatives to Antibiotics
          • Alternatives to Tylosin
          • AMR Risk Assessment
          • Antibiotic Resistance Profiles of Salmonella enterica Part II
          • Association of Liver Abscess Presence and Epithelial Integrity of the Hindgut in Feedlot Cattle to Salmonella Carriage in the Peripheral Lymph Nodes
          • Assessment of Vitamin E Supplementation as a Strategy to Mitigate Salmonella Prevalence in the Lymph Nodes of Naturally Exposed Feedlot Cattle
          • Construct a Phage Mediated System to Deliver CRISPR-Cas9
          • Developing a “Super Microbe” to Reduce Antibiotic Use in Beef Cattle
          • Does Antimicrobial-Free Production of Beef Cattle Reduce Foodborne Transmission of Resistant Bacteria to Human Consumers?
          • Ecology and Transfer of Antimicrobial Resistant Bacteria
          • Estimate and Mitigate the Potential Biosafety Risk of a CRISPR-Cas9-Based Targeted Killing System in Beef Cattle Production
          • Evaluation of the Spatial and Longitudinal Distribution of Antimicrobial Resistance Genes and Occurrence of Potential Horizontal Gene Transfer in High-Risk Cattle
          • Expand CRISPR-Cas9 Capabilities for Sequence-Specific Elimination of Pathogens
          • Harnessing the Ecological Dynamics of Naturally Occurring Bacteriophage in the Feedlot Environment to Control Multidrug-Resistant Salmonella in Slaughter-Ready Beef Cattle
          • High-Resolution Serotype Population Analyses in Pre-Harvest Cattle to Reveal Salmonella Transmission Networks
          • Horizontal Gene Transfer Of Antimicrobial Resistance
          • Impact of the Feedlot Environment Microbiome, Soil Properties and Weather on Salmonella Survival
          • Longitudinal Evaluation of Salmonella in Environmental Components and Peripheral Lymph Nodes of Fed Cattle from Weaning to Finish
          • Origin of Salmonella in the Peripheral Lymph Nodes
          • Origin of Salmonella in Peripheral Lymph Nodes Collab I
          • Prevalence of Filarial Nematodes
        • 2011 - 2015
          • AMR Food Safety Risks Associated with Tylosin
          • Antibiotic Resistant Bacteria Carried by Flies in Cattle Farms vs. Nonfarm Environments
          • Antibiotic Resistance Profiles of Salmonella enterica Part I
          • Antibiotic Resistance by Source
          • Biting Flies Biological Vectors of Salmonella
          • Characterization of E. coli O157:H7 Strains Associated with High Shedding
          • Characterization and Evaluation of Bacteriophages for Control of Salmonella
          • Characterization of Salmonella
          • Chlortetracycline and Ceftiofur Treatement on Salmonella Populations
          • Conjugative Transfer Antimicrobial Resistance
          • CRISPR Diversity Antimicrobial Suceptibility
          • Discovery of Molecular Targets for Identifying STEC
          • Do Pre-harvest Interventions Intended for E. coli O157:H7 Affect Shedding of STEC or Salmonella?
          • E. coli O157:H7 as an Indicator for the "Big 6" STECs
          • Efficacy of Bdellovibrio bacteriovorus to Control E. coli and Salmonella
          • Enabling Surveillance of Rare Resistance Phenotypes
          • Establishment of a Non-O157 STEC Baseline in Raw Ground Beef
          • Evaluating the Role of Horn Flies Transdermal Transmission of Salmonella to Cattle
          • Examination of Potential Predictors of Salmonella
          • Exploiting Antibiotic Resistance Mechanisms to Combat Antibiotic Resistance
          • Factors that Influence the Site and Extent of Salmonella in Cattle
          • Efficacy of Harvest and Fabrication Intervention Strategies Used to Control E. coli and Salmonella
          • Identifying Bacteriophages Inactivating MDR Salmonella
          • Impact of Pre-harvest Events and Practices on Salmonella Contamination of PLNs
          • Metagenomic Sequencing to Assess Microbiome of Cattle
          • A New Approach to Control E. coli O157 Using Natural Bacterial Competitors
          • Phage Therapy to Control E. coli and Other STEC
          • Potential Transmission of Salmonella from House Flies to the PLN of Cattle
          • Pre-harvest Ecology and Approaches to Control Salmonella
          • Risk and Thermal Susceptibility of Non-O157 and O157:H7 in Non-intact Beef Products
          • Salmonella in the Peripheral Lymph Nodes of Cattle
          • Salmonella in Lymph Nodes of Fed and Cull Cattle
          • Salmonella Lymph Node Contamination of Colonized and Naive Cattle
          • Solutions for the Food Safety Threat Posed by Salmonella in Lymph Nodes
          • Strategies to Reduce Supershedding
          • Use of Bovine Specific Peptide Arrays for Kinome Analysis
          • Use of Shotgun Metagenomic NGS
          • Use of Tylosin on AMR and Liver Abscesses
          • Validation of Environmental Predictors of Salmonella Contamination in Feedlots
        • 2006 - 2010
          • Acid Mucins as Growth Factors
          • Alkaline Hydrolysis of Prion Positive Materials
          • Analysis of Ground Beef Samples for Residues
          • Animal Level Predictors of MDR Salmonella
          • Antibiotic and Disinfectant Susceptibility Profiles of E. coli O157:H7
          • Antimicrobial Interventions on Multidrug Resistant Salmonella
          • Applications of Novel Yam Starch
          • Attribution of Salmonella in Ground Beef
          • Bacteriophage Involvement in the Dissemination of Multidrug Resistance by Salmonella
          • Carcass Mapping
          • Colonization Characteristics of Bovine Recto-anal Junction by E. coli O157:H7
          • Competitive Inhibition of E. coli O157:H7 and Salmonella spp. in Ground Beef Products
          • Complete Genomic Sequence of Six Shiga-toxigenic E. coli Non-O157 Strains
          • Consequences of Stress and Diet on Shedding of E. coli
          • Correlation of E. coli to AHL Concentrations
          • Detection of E. coli and Salmonella in Ground Beef
          • Detection of Pathogenic and Shiga Toxin-Producing E. coli
          • Dissemination of Resistance from Multidrug Resistant Generic E. coli to Salmonella
          • Distillers Grains and Foodborne Pathogens
          • Does Ceftiofur Administration Select for Populations of Resistant E. coli Clones?
          • E. coli Biotype I Surrogates as Predictors of Non-O157 STEC in Beef
          • Effects of Amino Acids on Campylobacter
          • Effect of Lactic Acid and Cooking on Survivability of E. coli in Beef Steaks
          • Effects of Pond Ash as Pen Surface on Prevalence of E. coli/Salmonella in Feedlot Cattle
          • Effects of Processing Plant Lairage on E. coli
          • Effects of the Salmonella Newport SRP
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          • Effect of Stressors on Acquisition of MDR Stressors
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          • Effect of Vitamin D Supplementation
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          • Emerging Pathogens in US Cattle
          • Evaluation of E. coli O157 Bacterial Extract Vaccine
          • Evaluation of Escherichia coli Translocation
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          • Evaluation of Sodium Chlorate on Salmonella and E. coli in Cull Dairy Cattle
          • Examination of Waste Milk Pasteurization on Salmonella
          • Formation Destruction and Removal of Escherichia coli
          • Gene Expression Response of Salmonella
          • Genetic Variation Between Shiga-toxigenic E. coli O157 from Human and Beef Origin
          • Heat Resistance of Salmonella Serotypes
          • Hide to Carcass Transfer of E. coli O157:H7 and Salmonella in Small Processing Plants
          • Hot Water and Lactic Acid Against E. coli
          • Identification of Genetic Markers Associated with Escherichia coli
          • Initial Investigation of the Burden of MRSA in Cattle
          • Investigation of Molecular Targets that Identify Presence of Non-O157 STEC
          • Impact of Carcass Surface Trimming During Fabrication of Subprimals on E. coli
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          • Isolation and Use of Bacteriophage
          • Nutritional Basis for E. coli O157:H7 Colonization of Bovine Rectum
          • MDR Salmonella from Calf fed Holstein Steers
          • Methods for Effectively Controlling E. coli/Salmonella during Non-intact Beef Products Production
          • Orange Pulp and Peel as Feedstuffs to Reduce E. coli and Salmonella
          • Phage Encoded Transfer of Antibiotic Resistance in Salmonella
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          • Determination of a Sodium Chlorate Dose
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          • E. coli O157:H7 Survival on Cattle Hides
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          • Reduction of E. coli O157:H7 in Beef Feedlot Cattle
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