Main description:

Detailed interpretation of the environmental consequences of the latest findings from genome sequencing studies-presenting both scientific and public health opportunities.

Explains how understanding pathogen genomics can help ensure the safety of global food and water supplies.
Focuses on specific food- and waterborne pathogens that represent major public health threats.
Examines how global trends, such as climate change, increasing human populations, and rising levels of pollution, are stressing the ecosystems that food- and waterborne pathogens encounter, forcing them to adapt.
Serves as an excellent text for microbiology and genomics researchers, public health officials, regulators, food scientists, and other applicable professionals.

This title is published by the American Society of Microbiology Press and distributed by Taylor and Francis in rest of world territories.

Contents:

Table of Contents

1. Insights from Genomic Studies of the Foodborne and Waterborne Pathogen Escherichia coli O157:H7

Victor P. J. Gannon, Chad R. Laing, and Yongxiang Zhang

2. Shigella Genomes: a Tale of Convergent Evolution and Specialization through IS Expansion and Genome Reduction
Jian Yang, Vartul Sangal, Qi Jin, and Jun Yu

3. Genome Rearrangements in Salmonella

T. David Matthews and Stanley Maloy

4. Campylobacter and Arcobacter

William G. Miller and Craig T. Parker

5. Comparative Genomics of Vibrio vulnificus: Biology and Applications

Lien-I Hor, Hung-Yu Shu, Keh-Ming Wu, and Shih-Feng Tsai

6. Vibrio parahaemolyticus

Kaori Izutsu and Tetsuya Iida

7. How Genomics Has Shaped Our Understanding of the Evolution and Emergence of Pathogenic Vibrio cholerae

Salvador Almagro-Moreno, Ronan A. Murphy, and E. Fidelma Boyd

8. Genomics of the Enteropathogenic Yersiniae

Alan McNally, Nicholas R. Thomson, and Brendan W. Wren

9. Staphylococcus aureus

Scott Weese, Jinzhe Mao, and David M. Donovan

10. Genomics of Listeria monocytogenes and Other Members of the Genus Listeria

Carmen Buchrieser and Philippe Glaser

11. Bacillus cereus

Monika Ehling-Schulz, Rickard Knutsson, and Siegfried Scherer

12. Bacillus anthracis

Jean F. Challacombe, Richard T. Okinaka, A. Christine Munk, Thomas S. Brettin, and Paul Keim

13. Clostridium botulinum

Holger Bruggemann, Antje Woltherr, Christelle Mazuet, and Michel R. Popoff

14. Clostridium perfringens

Karl A. Hassan and Ian T. Paulsen

15. Mycobacterium avium Subspecies paratuberculosis

John P. Bannantine, Yung-Fu Chang, and Vivek Kapur

16. Foodborne Noroviruses

David H. Kingsley

17. Hepatitis A and E Viruses

Albert Bosch and Rosa M. Pinto

18. Genomics of Aspergillus flavus Mycotoxin Production

Gary A. Payne, D. Ryan Georgianna, Jiujiang Yu, Ken Ehrlich, Greg OBrian, and Deepak Bhatnagar

19. Cryptosporidium spp.

Guan Zhu and Lihua Xiao

20. Giardia lamblia: Molecular Studies of an Early-Branching Eukaryote

Mark C. Jenkins and Katarzyna Miska

21. Cyclospora cayetanensis: a Review of the Genome

Joan M. Shields

22. Impact of the Toxoplasma gondii Genome Project

Benjamin M. Rosenthal

23. Genomic and Postgenomic Approaches To Understand the Pathogenesis of the Enteric Protozoan Parasite Entamoeba histolytica

Kumiko Nakada-Tsukui and Tomoyoshi Nozaki