Listeriosis is a rare but dangerous bacterial disease. The cause of this disease is food contaminated by Listeria (L). monocytogenes. Listeria is widespread and is also frequently found in food processing plants where food can become contaminated. A recently published study led by the COMET center FFoQSI (Austrian Competence Centre for Feed and Food Quality, Safety and Innovation, funded by BMK, BMDW and the provinces of Lower Austria, Upper Austria and Vienna) and the Vetmeduni now shows that L. monocytogenes can colonize existing biofilms. But not only that, L. monocytogenes also hides and survives in these biofilms.

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The first comprehensive database of food metagenomes has been developed by the EU-funded MASTER project. The CuratedFoodMetagenomicData (cFMD) resource is a milestone database system that includes thousands of metagenomes from different foods.

The study “Unexplored microbial diversity from 2,500 food metagenomes and links with the human microbiome” was recently published in the prestigious journal Cell.

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The Austrian Federal Ministry of Education, Science and Research (BMBWF) is supporting the ambitious project "Micro-Tramper: Microbial Dynamics along the Food Chain" under the leadership of the OeAD (Austrian Education Agency).

Evelyne Selberherr, Associate Professor at the Center for Food Science and Public Veterinary Medicine at Vetmeduni Vienna, is in charge of the project.

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