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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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Other Pathogens
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- Giovanni Widmer, Xiaochuan Feng, Sultan Tanriverdi
Pages 177-187
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- Gary P. Yakub, Kathleen L. Stadterman-Knauer
Pages 189-197
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- Silvana G. Fidalgo, Thomas V. Riley
Pages 199-205
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- Diana Draksler, María Cecilia Monferran, Silvia González
Pages 207-211
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- Brendan P. Burns, Martin L. Saker, Michelle C. Moffitt, Brett A. Neilan
Pages 213-222
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Bacteriocins and Other Inhibitors
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Front Matter
Pages 223-223
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- Jean-Marc Berjeaud, Yves Cenatiempo
Pages 225-233
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- Tânia L. P. Pessatti, José D. Fontana, Marcos L. Pessatti
Pages 311-316
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- María L. Tereschuk, Mario D. Baigorí, Lucia I. C. de Figueroa, Lidia R. Abdala
Pages 317-330
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- Lucila Saavedra, Patricia Castellano, Fernando Sesma
Pages 331-336
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- María Silvina Juárez Tomás, María Claudia Otero, Virginia Ocaña, María Elena Nader-Macías
Pages 337-346
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- Virginia S. Ocaña, María Elena Nader-Macías
Pages 347-353
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- María Silvina Juárez Tomás, Elena Bru, María Elena Nader-Macías
Pages 355-365
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- Graciela Vignolo, Patricia Castellano
Pages 367-370
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.
Reviews
"...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