Food consumption and disease risk : consumer-pathogen interactions /
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| Μορφή: | Βιβλίο |
| Γλώσσα: | English |
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Boca Raton, FL : Cambridge :
CRC Press Woodhead,
c2006
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Πίνακας περιεχομένων:
- Contributors contact details
- Part I. Factors that influence interactions between foodborne pathogenic agents and consumers: 1. Introduction to foodborne illness: public health impact, pathogens, and consumers 2. Populations at elevated of foodborne disease 3. Globalization of the food supply and the influence of economic factors on the contamination of food with pathogens 4. Trends agricultural management and land use and the risk of foodborne disease 5. Influence of food processing practices and technologies on consumer- pathogen interactions 6. Exposure assessment for foodborne pathogens 7. Using surveillance data to characterize and analyze risk factors for foodborne illness
- Part II. Human host factors that influence foodborne disease: 8. Nonspecific host defenses against foodborne pathogens 9. Specific immune mechanisms of defence against foodborne pathogens 10. Enhanced susceptibility to foodborne infections and disease due to underlying illnesses and pregnancy
- Part III. Agent factors of pathogenicity and virulence that influence foodborne disease: 11. Evolutionary parasitology: the development of invasion, evasion, and survival machanisms used by bacteria, viral, protozoan and metazoan parasites 12. Foodborne microbe mechanisms of colonization, attachment, and invasion 13. Hijacking the host cell: foodborne pathogen strategies for reproduction and defense evasion 14. Role of viruses in foodborne disease 15. Pathogenic mechanisms of foodborne viral disease 16. Pathogenic mechanisms of food- and waterborne parasitic disease 17. Dose-response relationships and foodborne disease
- Index
- GR-KaHUA