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John F. T. Spencer
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Planta Piloto de Procesos Industriales Microbiológicos, (PROIMI)-CONICET, San Miguel de Tucumán, Argentina
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Alicia L. Ragout de Spencer
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Planta Piloto de Procesos Industriales Microbiológicos, (PROIMI)-CONICET, San Miguel de Tucumán, Argentina
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Table of contents (52 protocols)
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Front Matter
Pages i-xvii
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Bacteria
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- Rustam I. Aminov, Joanne C. Chee-Sanford, Natalie Garrigues, Asma Mehboob, Roderick I. Mackie
Pages 3-13
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- Mairéad Daly, Séamus Fanning
Pages 15-32
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- Brigid Lucey, Fiona O’Halloran, Séamus Fanning
Pages 33-47
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- Ana Belén Vivanco, Juan Alvarez, Idoia Laconcha, Nuria López-Molina, Aitor Rementeria, Javier Garaizar
Pages 49-57
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Viruses
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- Albert Bosch, Rosa M. Pintó, Jaume Comas, Francesc-Xavier Abad
Pages 61-68
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- Maite Muniesa, Juan Jofre
Pages 79-88
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- Fiona O’Halloran, Séamus Fanning
Pages 89-102
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- Glòria Sánchez, Cristina Villena, Albert Bosch, Rosa M. Pintó
Pages 103-114
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Fungi
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Front Matter
Pages 115-115
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- Aitor Rementeria, Ana Belén Vivanco, Ainara Cadaval, María Teresa Ruesga, Sonia Brena, José Pontón et al.
Pages 117-125
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- Dante Javier Bueno, Julio Oscar Silva, Guillermo Oliver
Pages 127-131
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- Dante Javier Bueno, Guillermo Oliver
Pages 133-137
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Other Pathogens
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Front Matter
Pages 139-139
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- Judith A. Noble-Wang, Shangtong Zhang, Daniel Price, Donald G. Ahearn
Pages 153-161
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- Lihua Xiao, Altaf A. Lal, Jianlin Jiang
Pages 163-176
About this book
Public Health Microbiology: Methods and Protocols is focused on microorganisms that can present a hazard to human health in the course of everyday life. There are chapters dealing with organisms that are directly pathogenic to humans, including bacteria, viruses, and fungi; on organisms that produce toxins during growth in their natural habitats; on the use of bacteriocins produced by such organisms as lactobacilli and bifidobacteria; as well as several chapters on hazard analysis, the use of disinfectants, microbiological analysis of cosmetics, and microbiological tests for sanitation equipment in food factories. Additional chapters look at the use of animals (mice) in the study of the various characteristics of milk and their relationships with lactic acid bacteria in particular. Other chapters focus on special methods for determining particular components of milk. In particular, in Parts I and II, on bacterial and viral pathogens, special attention is given to methods for PCR detection of genes with resistance to tetracycline, as well as to Salmonella enterica; for identification and typing of Campylobacter coli; for detection of the abundance of enteric viruses, hepatitis A virus, and rotaviruses in sewage, and of bacteriophages infecting the O157:H7 strain of Escherichia coli. Part III offers methods for computerized analysis and typing of fungal isolates, for isolation and enumeration of fungi in foods, and for the determination of aflatoxin and zearalenone.
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"...highly recommended for graduate students as well as advanced researchers working in the field of public health microbiology." - International Journal of Hygiene and Environmental Health
