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Contact Information

Food Research Institute 1925 Willow Drive Madison, WI 53706-1187

Tel: 608/263-1168 Fax: 608/263-1114 E-mail: acwong@facstaff.wisc.edu

Program Affiliations

• Materials Science Program
• Food Microbiology and Toxicology
• Food Science

Education

• BA 1971, Wellesley College
• MS 1973, University of Wisconsin-Madison
• MS 1977, University of Wisconsin-Madison
• PhD 1987, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Fields of Interests

• Identification, characterization and detection of enterotoxins of Bacillus cereus and Staphylococcus aureau.
• Biofilm formation and control.

Publications

• Beecher, D. J. and A. C. Lee Wong. Tripartite haemolysin BL: isolation and characterization of two distinct homologous sets of components from a single Bacillus cereus isolate. Microbiology 146:1371–1380 (2000).
• Beecher, D. J. and A. C. L. Wong. Cooperative, synergistic and antagonistic haemolytic interactions between haemolysin BL, phosphatidylcholine phospholipase C and sphingomyelinase from Bacillus cereus. Microbiology 146:3033–3039 (2000).
• Beecher, D. J., T. W. Olsen, E. B. Somers, and A. C. L. Wong. Evidence for contribution of tripartite hemolysin BL, phosphatidylcholine-preferring phospholipase C, and collagenase to virulence of Bacillus cereus endophthalmitis. Infect. Immun. 68:5269–5276 (2000)
• Fermanian,  C., and A. C. L. Wong. Improved in vitro detection of hemolysin BL from Bacillus cereus. Int. J. Food Microbiol. 57:1–8 (2000).
• Schoeni, J. L., and A. C. L. Wong. Heterogeneity observed in the components of hemolysin BL, an enterotoxin produced by Bacillus cereus. Int. J. Food Microbiol. 53:159–167 (1999).
• Carpenter, B., A. C. L. Wong, and O. Cerf. Biofilms on dairy plant surfaces: what's new? Bull. Int. Dairy Fed. 329:32–35 (1998).
• Farrell, B. L., A. B. Ronner, and A. C. L. Wong. Attachment of Escherichia coli O157:H7 in ground beef to meat grinders and survival after sanitation with chlorine and peroxyacetic acid. J. Food Prot. 61:817–822 (1998).
• Su, Y. C., and A. C. L. Wong. Production of staphylococcal enterotoxin H under controlled pH and aeration. Int. J. Food Microbiol. 39:87–91 (1998).
• Wong, A. C. L. Biofilms in food processing environments. J. Dairy Sci. 81:2765–2770 (1998).
• Beecher, D. J., and A. C. L. Wong. Tripartite hemolysin BL from Bacillus cereus: hemolytic analysis of component interactions and a model for its characteristic paradoxical zone phenomenon. J. Biol. Chem. 272:233–239 (1997).
• Su, Y.-C., and A. C. L. Wong. Current perspectives on detection of staphylococcal enterotoxins. J. Food Protect. 60:195–202 (1997).
• Su, Y.-C., and A.C.L. Wong. Detection of staphylococcal enterotoxin H by an enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay. J. Food Protect. 59:327–330 (1996).