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
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- 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
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- Yersinia enterocolitica detection in pork products : evaluation of isolation protocols(2020)
Authors: Maria Francesca Peruzy, M. Aponte, Y. T. R. Proroga, F. Capuano, D. Cristiano, E. Delibato, Kurt Houf, N. Murru
- Impact of Acanthamoeba cysts on stress resistance of Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium, Yersinia enterocolitica 4/O:3, Listeria monocytogenes 1/2a, and Escherichia coli O:26(2017)
Authors: Ellen Lambrecht, Julie Baré, Koen Sabbe, Kurt Houf
- Diversity of Campylobacter in retail meat and liver of lambs and goat kids(2014)
Authors: Thomai Lazou, Chrysostomos Dovas, Kurt Houf, Nikolaos Soultos, Eleni Iossifidou
Pages: 320 - 328 - Boviene sarcosporidiosis of eosinofiele myositis?(2014)
Authors: Lieve Vangeel, Kurt Houf, Peter Geldhof, Richard Ducatelle, Jozef Vercruysse, Koen Chiers
Pages: 263 - 267 - Campylobacter in small ruminants at slaughter: prevalence, pulsotypes and antibiotic resistance(2014)
Authors: Thomai Lazou, Kurt Houf, Nikolaos Soultos, Chrysostomos Dovas, Eleni Iossifidou
Pages: 54 - 61 - Control of Salmonella in pigs(2012)
Authors: Kurt Houf
Pages: 278 - 285 - Variation in the prevalence of enteropathogenic Yersinia in slaughter pigs from Belgium, Italy, and Spain(2011)
Authors: Pilar Ortiz Martinez, Maria Fredriksson-Ahomaa, Adolfo Pallotti, Roberto Rosmini, Kurt Houf, Hannu Korkeala
Pages: 445 - 450 - Inhibitory effect of organic acids on arcobacters in culture and their use for control of Arcobacter butzleri on chicken skin(2011)
Authors: Eva Skrivanova, Zuzana Molatova, Michaela Matenova, Kurt Houf, Milan Marounek
Pages: 367 - 371 - Arcobacter in a food safety perspective(2009)
Authors: Kurt Houf
Pages: 73 - 76 - First multi-locus sequence typing scheme for Arcobacter spp.(2009)
Authors: William G Miller, Irene V Wesley, Stephen LW On, Kurt Houf, Francis Megraud, Guilin Wang, Emma Yee, Apichai Srijan, Carl J Mason