Researcher
Kurt Houf
- Keywords:food safety
- Disciplines:Post harvest technologies of plants, animals and fish (incl. transportation and storage), Food technology, Veterinary public health and food safety, Food microbiology
Affiliations
- Department of Veterinary and Biosciences (Department)
Member
From1 Oct 2021 → Today - Department of Veterinary Public Health and Food Safety (Department)
Responsible
From1 Oct 2017 → 30 Sep 2021 - Department of Veterinary Public Health and Food Safety (Department)
Member
From1 Oct 2017 → 30 Sep 2021 - Department of Veterinary Public Health and Food Safety (Department)
Member
From1 Oct 1996 → 30 Sep 2021
Projects
1 - 8 of 8
- Emerging bacterial food safety risks: the Campylobacter-Proteus-Escherichia test caseFrom1 May 2022 → TodayFunding: Ministery of Social Affairs, Public Health and Environment
- Molecular epidemiology and antimicrobial resistance mechanism of Campylobacter species among children under the age of five with diarrhoea, domestic animals and environmental sources in Amhara National Regional State, EthiopiaFrom1 Oct 2020 → TodayFunding: BOF - doctoral mandates
- Anisakidae, fishborne zoonotic nematodes: hidden bacterial and allergic concernsFrom1 Oct 2019 → 30 Sep 2023Funding: BOF - doctoral mandates
- Microbiomes of meat-processing environments: influences of microbial diversity, structure, and variability on pathogen survival, transmission, and evolutionFrom1 Mar 2017 → 30 Sep 2020Funding: BOF - Other initiatives
- Role of free-living protozoa and biofilm formation on the evolution and persistence of foodborne pathogens in natural and food-related environmentsFrom1 Oct 2014 → 30 Sep 2018Funding: BOF - Other initiatives
- Genomic and virulenceprofiling of the emerging foodborne Arcobacter speciesFrom1 Jan 2014 → 31 Jan 2018Funding: BOF - Other initiatives
- The association of human pathogenic Yersinia enterocolitica with free-living protozoa: Ecological relevance and impact on bacterial phenotypic characteristics.From1 Oct 2012 → 30 Sep 2016Funding: BOF - Doctoral projects
- The association of the food-borne pathogen Campylobacter jejuni with free-living protozoa: unraveling the cell biological and molecular mechanisms involved in their interaction.From1 Jul 2011 → 30 Apr 2016Funding: BOF - Doctoral projects
Publications
1 - 10 of 26
- Gebruik van elektrische prikkelaar bij volwassen runderen en varkens(2023)
Authors: Dominiek Maes, Geert Opsomer, Kurt Houf
Pages: 152 - 152 - Evaluation of a harmonized undergraduate catalog for veterinary public health and food hygiene pedagogy in Europe(2022)
Authors: Alessandro Seguino, Peggy G. Braun, Jorge Del-Pozo, Cristina Soare, Kurt Houf, Sarah Baillie
Pages: 721 - 732 - Unraveling the microbiota of the fish parasite Pseudoterranova decipiens in codfish (Gadus morhua) reveals a fish-related bacterial community(2022)
Authors: Ganna Saelens, Kurt Houf
- Systematic review and critical reflection on the isolation and identification methods for spoilage associated bacteria in fresh marine fish(2022)
Authors: Ganna Saelens, Kurt Houf
- Systematic review and meta-analysis of the efficacy of interventions applied during primary processing to reduce microbial contamination on pig carcasses(2022)
Authors: Nevijo Zdolec, Aurelia Kotsiri, Kurt Houf, Avelino Alvarez-Ordonez, Bojan Blagojevic, Nedjeljko Karabasil, Morgane Salines, Dragan Antic
- Microbiology and Epidemiology of Escherichia albertii-An Emerging Elusive Foodborne Pathogen(2022)
Authors: Francis Muchaamba, Karen Barmettler, Andrea Treier, Kurt Houf, Roger Stephan
- Arcobacter vandammei sp. nov., isolated from the rectal mucus of a healthy pig(2021)
Authors: Pieter-Jan Kerkhof, Stephen L. W. On, Kurt Houf
- Beef abattoir interventions in a risk-based meat safety assurance system(2021)
Authors: Dragan Antic, Kurt Houf, Eleni Michalopoulou, Bojan Blagojevic
- Drivers, opportunities, and challenges of the European risk-based meat safety assurance system(2021)
Authors: Bojan Blagojevic, Truls Nesbakken, Ole Alvseike, Ivar Vagsholm, Dragan Antic, Sophia Johler, Kurt Houf, Diana Meemken, Ivan Nastasijevic, Madalena Vieira Pinto, et al.
- Evaluation of microbial contamination of different pork carcass areas through culture-dependent and independent methods in small-scale slaughterhouses(2021)
Authors: Maria Francesca Peruzy, Kurt Houf, Marie Joossens, Zhongjia Yu, Yolande Therese Rose Proroga, Nicoletta Murru