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Ben D. Tall is affiliated with the US Food and Drug Administration in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on microbiology with an emphasis on the genus Cronobacter and its implications in food safety and public health.

The scientist has contributed extensively to the study of Enterobacteriaceae and Cronobacter research, a topic covered in 20 of their publications. Their research intersects with several other topics including bacteriophages and microbial interactions, parasitic infections and diagnostics, plant pathogenic bacteria studies, probiotics and fermented foods, food safety and hygiene, and fecal contamination and water quality.

Their work spans multiple fields of study, predominantly in Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology with 15 publications, followed by Agricultural and Biological Sciences with 6 publications. Subfields of their research include endocrinology, food science, ecology, parasitology, and molecular biology.

Ben D. Tall's frequent coauthors demonstrate ongoing collaborations within the microbiology and food safety research communities. Notable frequent collaborators include Gopal Gopinath, Hyein Jang, Flavia Negrete, Séamus Fanning, and Jayanthi Gangiredla.

The scientist has published in a variety of journals, with Microorganisms being the most frequent publication venue with 4 papers. Other journals include the Journal of Food Protection, Critical Reviews in Food Science and Nutrition, Frontiers in Microbiology, and Applied and Environmental Microbiology.

Selected recent publications include:

  • Environmental risk factors associated with the survival, persistence, and thermal tolerance of Cronobacter sakazakii during the manufacture of powdered infant formula, 2022, Critical Reviews in Food Science and Nutrition
  • Alterations in the Transcriptional Landscape Allow Differential Desiccation Tolerance in Clinical Cronobacter sakazakii, 2021, Applied and Environmental Microbiology
  • Prevalence of Cronobacter spp. and Salmonella in Milk Powder Manufacturing Facilities in the United States, 2020, Journal of Food Protection
  • The Secretion of Toxins and Other Exoproteins of Cronobacter: Role in Virulence, Adaption, and Persistence, 2020, Microorganisms
  • Analysis of the Molecular Diversity Among Cronobacter Species Isolated From Filth Flies Using Targeted PCR, Pan Genomic DNA Microarray, and Whole Genome Sequencing Analyses, 2020, Frontiers in Microbiology

Best Publications

  • A genetic locus of enteropathogenic Escherichia coli necessary for the production of attaching and effacing lesions on tissue culture cells.

    Ann E. Jerse;Jun Yu;Ben D. Tall;James B. Kaper

  • Vibrio cholerae produces a second enterotoxin, which affects intestinal tight junctions.

    A Fasano;B Baudry;D W Pumplin;S S Wasserman

  • Cronobacter gen. nov., a new genus to accommodate the biogroups of Enterobacter sakazakii, and proposal of Cronobacter sakazakii gen. nov., comb. nov., Cronobacter malonaticus sp. nov., Cronobacter turicensis sp. nov., Cronobacter muytjensii sp. nov., Cronobacter dublinensis sp. nov., Cronobacter genomospecies 1, and of three subspecies, Cronobacter dublinensis subsp. dublinensis subsp. nov., Cronobacter dublinensis subsp. lausannensis subsp. nov. and Cronobacter dublinensis subsp. lactaridi subsp. nov.

    Carol Iversen;Niall Mullane;Barbara McCardell;Ben D. Tall

  • A DNA Probe to Identify Enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli of 0157:H7 and Other Serotypes That Cause Hemorrhagic Colitis and Hemolytic Uremic Syndrome

    Myron M. Levine;Jian-guo Xu;James B. Kaper;Hermy Lior

  • Safety, immunogenicity, and efficacy of recombinant live oral cholera vaccines, CVD 103 and CVD 103-HgR.

    MyronM. Levine;Deirdre Herrington;Genevieve Losonsky;Ben Tall

  • Volunteer studies of deletion mutants of Vibrio cholerae O1 prepared by recombinant techniques.

    M M Levine;J B Kaper;D Herrington;G Losonsky

  • Viable but non-culturable Vibrio cholerae O1 revert to a cultivable state in the human intestine

    R. R. Colwell;P. Brayton;D. Herrington;B. Tall

  • Temperature regulation of virulence factors in the pathogen Vibrio coralliilyticus

    Nikole E Kimes;Christopher J Grim;Christopher J Grim;Wesley R Johnson;Nur A Hasan

  • Evolutionary genetic relationships of clones of Salmonella serovars that cause human typhoid and other enteric fevers.

    R. K. Selander;P. Beltran;N. H. Smith;R. Helmuth

  • Safety, infectivity, immunogenicity, and in vivo stability of two attenuated auxotrophic mutant strains of Salmonella typhi, 541Ty and 543Ty, as live oral vaccines in humans.

    M M Levine;D Herrington;J R Murphy;J G Morris

  • Use of DNA Probes and HEp-2 Cell Adherence Assay to Detect Diarrheagenic Escherichia coli

    Myron M. Levine;Valeria Prado;Roy Robins-Browne;Hermy Lior

  • Studies in volunteers to evaluate candidate Shigella vaccines: further experience with a bivalent Salmonella typhi-Shigella sonnei vaccine and protection conferred by previous Shigella sonnei disease.

    Deirdre A. Herrington;Lillian Van De Verg;Samuel B. Formal;Thomas L. Hale

  • Yersinia pestis pH 6 antigen forms fimbriae and is induced by intracellular association with macrophages

    Luther E. Lindler;Ben D. Tall

  • Cronobacter species (formerly known as Enterobacter sakazakii) in powdered infant formula: a review of our current understanding of the biology of this bacterium

    Q.Q. Yan;O. Condell;K. Power;F. Butler

  • Experimental non-O group 1 Vibrio cholerae gastroenteritis in humans.

    Jr Jg Morris;T Takeda;BD Tall;GA Losonsky

  • Cronobacter spp.--opportunistic food-borne pathogens. A review of their virulence and environmental-adaptive traits.

    Ziad W. Jaradat;Waseem Al Mousa;Ahmed Elbetieha;Anas Al Nabulsi

  • Re-examination of the taxonomic status of Enterobacter helveticus, Enterobacter pulveris and Enterobacter turicensis as members of the genus Cronobacter and their reclassification in the genera Franconibacter gen. nov. and Siccibacter gen. nov. as Franconibacter helveticus comb. nov., Franconibacter pulveris comb. nov. and Siccibacter turicensis comb. nov., respectively

    Roger Stephan;Christopher J. Grim;Gopal R. Gopinath;Mark K. Mammel

  • Invasion of cultured human epithelial cells by Klebsiella pneumoniae isolated from the urinary tract.

    Tobias A. Oelschlaeger;Ben D. Tall

  • Occurrence and antibiotic resistance of multiple Salmonella serotypes recovered from water, sediment and soil on mid-Atlantic tomato farms $

    Shirley A. Micallef;Rachel E. Rosenberg Goldstein;Ashish George;Lara Kleinfelter

  • Characterization of the zinc-containing metalloprotease encoded by zpx and development of a species-specific detection method for Enterobacter sakazakii

    M. H. Kothary;B. A. McCardell;C. D. Frazar;D. Deer

  • Intracellular spread of Shigella flexneri associated with the kcpA locus and a 140-kilodalton protein.

    T Pál;J W Newland;B D Tall;S B Formal

  • Shigella flexneri IpaH7.8 Facilitates Escape of Virulent Bacteria from the Endocytic Vacuoles of Mouse and Human Macrophages

    Carmen M. Fernandez-Prada;David L. Hoover;Ben D. Tall;Antoinette B. Hartman

Frequent Co-Authors

Myron M. Levine
Myron M. Levine University of Maryland, Baltimore
Séamus Fanning
Séamus Fanning University College Dublin
Roger Stephan
Roger Stephan University of Zurich
Genevieve Losonsky
Genevieve Losonsky University of Maryland, Baltimore
Angelika Lehner
Angelika Lehner University of Zurich
Karen L. Kotloff
Karen L. Kotloff University of Maryland, Baltimore
Sam W. Joseph
Sam W. Joseph University of Maryland, College Park
Rita R. Colwell
Rita R. Colwell University of Maryland, College Park
James P. Nataro
James P. Nataro University of Virginia
James B. Kaper
James B. Kaper University of Maryland, Baltimore

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