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Record W4211249595 · doi:10.1128/9781555818463.ch13

<i>Cronobacter</i> Species

2014· book-chapter· ru· W4211249595 on OpenAlex

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affAt least one author lists a Canadian institution in the pinned OpenAlex snapshot.

Bibliographic record

VenueFood Microbiology · 2014
Typebook-chapter
Languageru
FieldBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology
TopicEnterobacteriaceae and Cronobacter Research
Canadian institutionsHealth Canada
Fundersnot available
KeywordsCronobacterMicrobiologyBrain abscessBiologyNeonatal meningitisAbscessEnterobacter

Abstract

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This chapter reviews the basic biology, ecology, phylogenetic characterization, virulence factors, pathogenicity, and epidemiology of the emerging opportunistic foodborne pathogen, Cronobacter Species. The Cronobacter Species is categorized in the family Enterobacteriaceae and like most species in this family is considered an opportunistic pathogen. Nevertheless, advances have been made in the molecular characterization of Cronobacter species using amplification and sequencing of the 16S rRNA gene, pulsed-field gel electrophoresis (PFGE), ribotyping, and plasmid typing. The chapter explains susceptibility to physical and chemical treatments that include temperature, water activity, biological inactivation, chemical inactivation and competitive exclusion/probiotics. Cronobacter has been recovered from clinical specimens such as cerebrospinal fluid (CSF), blood, sputum, throat, nose, stool, gut, skin, wounds, bone marrow, eye, ear, stomach aspirates, anal swabs, and the breast abscess of infected patients. Cronobacter has been mainly associated with necrotizing enterocolitis (NEC), septicemia, and meningitis. Neurological sequelae are commonly reported and include brain abscess and infarction, ventricle compartmentalization due to necrosis of brain tissue and liquefaction of white cerebral matter, and cranial cystic changes, as well as hemorrhagic and nonhemorrhagic intercerebral infarctions leading to cystic encephalomalacia. Nazarowec-White and Farber tested the antibiotic resistance of seventeen strains of Cronobacter and found four antibiotic susceptibility patterns (antibiograms). Cronobacter species has become a growing concern for government regulatory agencies, health care providers (especially those in neonatal intensive care units), and powdered infant formula (PIF) manufacturers.

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Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesMeta-epidemiology (narrow), Research integrity, Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)
Consensus categoriesInsufficient payload (model declined to judge)
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Bench or experimental · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.850
Threshold uncertainty score0.999

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0010.001
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.001
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.001
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0010.001
Research integrity0.0020.001
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0030.003

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.016
GPT teacher head0.223
Teacher spread0.207 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it