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ReviewFood science & nutrition2023

Bacteriophages and food safety: An updated overview.

Ali Imran, Umber Shehzadi, Fakhar Islam, Muhammad Afzaal, Rehman Ali, Yuosra Amer Ali, Anamika Chauhan, Sunanda Biswas, Sadaf Khurshid, Ifrah Usman and 4 more

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Review in Food science & nutrition, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. An erratum has been issued. Cited by 29 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
29citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
10.9field-weighted citation impact, top 1% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

29 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 44 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

14 authors at 7 institutions in 4 countries.

Ali ImranDepartment of Food Sciences Government College University Faisalabad Pakistan.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0332-8066
Umber ShehzadiDepartment of Food Sciences Government College University Faisalabad Pakistan.
Fakhar IslamDepartment of Food Sciences Government College University Faisalabad Pakistan.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6935-5924
Muhammad AfzaalDepartment of Food Sciences Government College University Faisalabad Pakistan.
Rehman AliDepartment of Food Sciences Government College University Faisalabad Pakistan.
Yuosra Amer AliDepartment of Food Sciences, College of Agriculture and Forestry University of Mosul Mosul Iraq.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8394-2233
Anamika ChauhanDepartment of Home Science Chaman Lal Mahavidyalaya Landhora Haridwar India.
Sunanda BiswasDepartment of Food & Nutrition Acharya Prafulla Chandra College Kolkata India.
Sadaf KhurshidDepartment of Food Sciences Government College University Faisalabad Pakistan.
Ifrah UsmanDepartment of Food Sciences Government College University Faisalabad Pakistan.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9334-7059
Ghulam HussainNeurochemicalbiology and Genetics Laboratory (NGL), Department of Physiology, Faculty of Life Sciences Government College University Faisalabad Pakistan.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9090-7789
Syeda Mahvish ZahraDepartment of Environmental Design, Health and Nutritional Sciences Allama Iqbal Open University Islamabad Pakistan.
Mohd Asif ShahAdjunct Faculty University Center for Research & Development, Chandigarh University Mohali India.
Adil RasoolDepartment of Management Bakhtar University Kabul Afghanistan.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6096-2944
Government College University, Faisalabad · PKBakhtar University · AFBidhan Chandra Krishi Viswavidyalaya · INChandigarh University · INDev Sanskriti Vishwavidyalaya · INUniversity of Mosul · IQUniversity of Sargodha · PK

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Despite significant advances in pathogen survival and food cleaning measures, foodborne diseases continue to be the main reason for hospitalization or other fatality globally. Conventional antibacterial techniques including pasteurization, pressurized preparation, radioactivity, as well as synthetic antiseptics could indeed decrease bacterial activity in nutrition to variable levels, despite their serious downsides like an elevated upfront outlay, the possibility of accessing malfunctions due to one corrosiveness, as well as an adverse effect upon those the foodstuffs' organoleptic properties and maybe their nutritional significance. Greatest significantly, these cleansing methods eliminate all contaminants, including numerous (often beneficial) bacteria found naturally in food. A huge amount of scientific publication that discussed the application of virus bioremediation to treat a multitude of pathogenic bacteria in meals spanning between prepared raw food to fresh fruit and vegetables although since initial idea through using retroviruses on meals. Furthermore, the quantity of widely viable bacteriophage-containing medicines licensed for use in health and safety purposes has continuously expanded. Bacteriophage bio-control, a leafy and ordinary technique that employs lytic bacteriophages extracted from the atmosphere to selectively target pathogenic bacteria and remove meaningfully decrease their stages meals, is one potential remedy that solves some of these difficulties. It has been suggested that applying bacteriophages to food is a unique method for avoiding bacterial development in vegetables. Because of their selectivity, security, stability, and use, bacteriophages are desirable. Phages have been utilized in post-harvest activities, either alone or in combination with antimicrobial drugs, since they are effective, strain-specific, informal to split and manipulate. In this review to ensure food safety, it may be viable to use retroviruses as a spontaneous treatment in the thread pollution of fresh picked fruits and vegetables, dairy, and convenience foods.

Indexed as

bacteriophagesfoodborne illnessfood safetyphages

Identifiers

PMID37457180
PMCPMC10345663
OpenAlexW4382128110

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