Enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli and other shiga toxin-producing E. coli /
Useful as a textbook for advanced courses in microbiology, food safety, infectious disease, or microbial pathogenesis, the text presents the most current research overview from a multidisciplinary, international group of expert authors concerned with tracking, deciphering, intervening, and understan...
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| Language: | English |
| Published: | Washington, DC : ASM Press, [2015] ©2015 |
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Table of Contents:
- -- Preface
- Chapter 1 : Overview and Historical Perspectives / James B. Kaper, Alison D. O'Brien
- Chapter 2 : Taxonomy Meets Public Health: The Case of Shiga Toxin-Producing Escherichia coli / Flemming Scheutz
- Chapter 3 : Shiga Toxin (Stx) Classification, Structure, and Function / Angela R. Melton-Celsa
- Chapter 4 : Enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli Genomics: Past, Present, and Future / Shah M. Sadiq, Tracy H. Hazen, David A. Rasko, Mark Eppinger
- Chapter 5 : Role of Shiga/Vero Toxins in Pathogenesis / Fumiko Obata, Tom Obrig
- Chapter 6 : The Locus of Enterocyte Effacement and Associated Virulence Factors of Enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli / Mark P. Stevens, Gad M. Frankel
- Chapter 7 : Enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli Adhesins / Brian D. Mcwilliams, Alfredo G. Torres
- Chapter 8 : Animal Models of Enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli Infection / Jennifer M. Ritchie
- Chapter 9 : Enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli Virulence Gene Regulation / Jay L. Mellies, Emily Lorenzen
- Chapter 10 : Shiga Toxin (Verotoxin)-Producing Escherichia coli in Japan / Jun Terajima, Sunao Iyoda, Makoto Ohnishi, Haruo Watanabe
- Chapter 11 : Animal Reservoirs of Shiga Toxin-Producing Escherichia coli / Anil K. Persad, Jeffrey T. Lejeune
- Chapter 12 : Shiga Toxin-Producing Escherichia coli in Fresh Produce: A Food Safety Dilemma / Peter Feng
- Chapter 13 : Public Health Microbiology of Shiga Toxin-Producing Escherichia coli / Alfredo Caprioli, Gaia Scavia, Stefano Morabito
- Chapter 14 : Detection of Shiga Toxin-Producing Escherichia coli from Nonhuman Sources and Strain Typing / Lothar Beutin, Patrick Fach
- Chapter 15 : Shiga Toxin/Verocytotoxin-Producing Escherichia coli Infections: Practical Clinical Perspectives / T. Keefe Davis, Nicole C.A.J. van De Kar, Phillip I. Tarr
- Chapter 16 : The Inflammatory Response during Enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli Infection / Jaclyn S. Pearson, Elizabeth L. Hartland
- Chapter 17 : New Therapeutic Developments against Shiga Toxin-Producing Escherichia coli / Angela R. Melton-Celsa, Alison D. O'Brien
- Chapter 18 : Risk Factors for Shiga Toxin-Producing Escherichia coli-Associated Human Diseases / Marta Rivas, Isabel Chinen, Elizabeth Miliwebsky, Marcelo Masana
- Chapter 19 : Enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli Pathogenesis and the Host Response / Diana Karpman, Anne-lie Ståhl
- Chapter 20 : The Interplay between the Microbiota and Enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli / Reed Pifer, Vanessa Sperandio
- Chapter 21 : "Preharvest" Food Safety for Escherichia coli O157 and Other Pathogenic Shiga Toxin-Producing Strains / Thomas E. Besser, Carrie E. Schmidt, Devendra H. Shah, Smriti Shringi
- Chapter 22 : Peri- and Postharvest Factors in the Control of Shiga Toxin-Producing Escherichia coli in Beef / Rodney A. Moxley, Gary R. Acuff
- Chapter 23 : Veterinary Public Health Approach to Managing Pathogenic Verocytotoxigenic Escherichia coli in the Agri-Food Chain / Geraldine Duffy, Evonne McCabe
- Chapter 24 : Clinical Studies of Escherichia coli O157:H7 Conjugate Vaccines in Adults and Young Children / Shousun Chen Szu, Amina Ahmed
- Chapter 25 : Vaccination of Cattle against Escherichia coli O157:H7 / David R. Smith
- Chapter 26 : Escherichia coli O104:H4 Pathogenesis: An Enteroaggregative E. coli/Shiga Toxin-Producing E. coli Explosive Cocktail of High Virulence / Fernando Navarro-Garcia
- Chapter 27 : The Way Forward / Vanessa Sperandio
- Index
- About the Editors.