(1) Dumitru Macarisin, Ishani Sheth, Minji Hur, Anna Wooten, Hee Jin Kwon, Zhujun Gao, Antonio De Jesus, Wayne Jurick II and Yi Chen’s publication in Nature entitled “Survival of outbreak, food, and environmental strains of Listeria monocytogenes on whole apples as affected by cultivar and wax coating” asserts how outbreaks of L. monocytogenes were associated with wax coated apples. (2) Macarisin et al., were able to validate that L. monocytogenes had increased survival rates when inoculated onto waxed apples, as opposed to unwaxed ones. (3) The intention behind this paper was to provide insight into what may have been a factor in the L. monocytogenes outbreaks in 2014-2015, and 2017. (4) Macarisin et al.’s publication in Nature institute a scholarly connection, and the makeup of the paper is applicable to members of agricultural and food sciences.
Macarisin D, Sheth I, Hur M, Wooten A, Kwon HJ, Gao Z, De Jesus A, Jurick W, Chen Y. 2019. Survival of outbreak, food, and environmental strains of listeria monocytogenes on whole apples as affected by cultivar and wax coating. Scientific Reports 9.
