About the Authors

Bianca A. Amézquita-López

Affiliation Centro de Investigación en Alimentación y Desarrollo, Culiacán, Sinaloa, México

Beatriz Quiñones

Beatriz.Quinones@ars.usda.gov (BQ); chaqui@ciad.edu.mx (CC)

Affiliation U.S. Department of Agriculture/Agricultural Research Service, Produce Safety and Microbiology Research Unit, Western Regional Research Center, Albany, California, United States of America

Michael B. Cooley

Affiliation U.S. Department of Agriculture/Agricultural Research Service, Produce Safety and Microbiology Research Unit, Western Regional Research Center, Albany, California, United States of America

Josefina León-Félix

Affiliation Centro de Investigación en Alimentación y Desarrollo, Culiacán, Sinaloa, México

Nohelia Castro-del Campo

Affiliation Centro de Investigación en Alimentación y Desarrollo, Culiacán, Sinaloa, México

Robert E. Mandrell

Affiliation U.S. Department of Agriculture/Agricultural Research Service, Produce Safety and Microbiology Research Unit, Western Regional Research Center, Albany, California, United States of America

Maribel Jiménez

Affiliation Facultad de Ciencias Químico Biológicas, Universidad Autónoma de Sinaloa, Culiacán, Sinaloa, México

Cristóbal Chaidez

Beatriz.Quinones@ars.usda.gov (BQ); chaqui@ciad.edu.mx (CC)

Affiliation Centro de Investigación en Alimentación y Desarrollo, Culiacán, Sinaloa, México

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: CC BAAL BQ MBC REM MJ. Performed the experiments: BAAL MBC MJ. Analyzed the data: BQ BAAL MBC. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: BQ BAAL MBC CC MJ REM JLF NCdC. Wrote the paper: BQ BAAL.