Main description:

At last, here is a graduate-level textbook that focuses on the very latest information on the molecular and cellular mechanism of several major foodborne bacterial pathogens. For the first time in the field, this book makes the link between foodborne illness and immunology. It also covers virulence genes and their regulation in the host or the food environment, pathogenicity testing models, clinical symptoms and prevention and control strategies. Unlike other textbooks this one also covers the host/parasite interaction to a level where readers have a real appreciation of the disease mechanism. It is imperative that we acquire a better understanding of foodborne pathogens. And this is what this brilliant and timely contribution to the subject offers.

Contents:

to Foodborne Pathogens.- Biology of Microbes Associated with Food.- Host Defense Against Foodborne Pathogens.- General Mechanism of Pathogenesis for Foodborne Pathogens.- Animal and Cell Culture Models to Study Foodborne Pathogen Interaction.- Staphylococcus aureus.- Bacillus cereus and Bacillus anthracis.- Clostridium botulinum and Clostridium perfringens.- Listeria monocytogenes.- Escherichia coli.- Salmonella enterica.- Campylobacter and Arcobacter.- Yersinia enterocolitica and Yersinia pestis.- Vibrio cholerae, V. parahaemolyticus, V. vulnificus.- Shigella species.