| Description |
1 online resource : color illustrations |
| Series |
Advances in food safety and food microbiology |
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Advances in food safety and food microbiology.
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| Contents |
Introduction: a journey to the world of enterococcus / Lígia L. Pimentel ... [and others] -- Diversity and ecological niches / Abdelhak Lemsaddek and Rogério Tenreiro -- Enterococcal physiology and cell wall structure and dynamics / Mark M. Huycke and Lynn E. Hancock -- Mobile genetic elements and horizontal gene transfer / Teresa M. Coque ... [and others] -- Enterococcal genomes and genomic islands / Veronica N. Kos and Michael S. Gilmore -- Emergence and clonal dissemination of Enterococcus faecium and Enterococcus faecalis in hospitals, the community, and animals / Janetta Top and Rob Willems -- Surveillance of antimicrobial resistance among enterococcus faecium and enterococcus faecalis isolated from human (clinical/commensal), food animal, meat, and environmental samples / Guido Werner -- Are antimicrobial resistant enterococci of animal origin a human hazard? / Anette M. Hammerum, Camilla H. Lester, and Ole E. Heuer -- Pathogenesis and virulence / Teresa Semedo-Lemsaddek and Rosario Mato -- Enterococcal biofilms / Fernanda Laroza Paganelli and Helen L. Leavis -- Protective immune response / Christian Repp and Johannes Huebner -- Transcriptome analysis: towards a comprehensive understanding of global enterococcal transcriptional activity / Margrete Solheim and Ingolf F. Nes -- Proteomics of enterococci: an -omic tool for understanding antibiotic resistance and stress environments / Gilberto Igrejas ... [and others] -- Post-genomic strategies towards the evaluation of pathogenicity potential / Maria De Fátima Silva Lopes, Laura Carrilero and Bruno Gonzalez-Zorn -- Enterococci in food / Maria Teresa Barreto Crespo and Paula Isabel Alves -- Enterococci in water / Caterina Signoretto and Pietro Canepari -- Qualified presumption of safety (Qps) and generally recognized as safe (Gras) concepts / Charles M.A.P. Franz ... [and others] -- Bacteriocins and their application as food bio-preservatives / Hikmate Abriouel ... [and others] -- Probiotics and their applications to improve human and animal health / Varsha Gupta -- Closing remarks: potential risks of enterococci to food safety regarding the 21st century challenges / Maria Teresa Barreto Crespo, Rogério Tenreiro, and Teresa Semedo-Lemsaddek |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Description based on print version record |
| Subject |
Enterococcal infections.
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Enterococcus.
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Food -- Microbiology.
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Water -- Microbiology.
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Enterococcus
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Food Microbiology
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Food Safety
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Water Microbiology
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SCIENCE -- Life Sciences -- Evolution.
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SCIENCE -- Life Sciences -- Neuroscience.
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Water -- Microbiology
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Enterococcal infections
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Enterococcus
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Food -- Microbiology
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Semedo-Lemsaddek, Teresa, editor
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Barreto-Crespo, Maria Teresa, editor
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Tenreiro, Rogério, editor
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| LC no. |
2020687030 |
| ISBN |
9781614706649 |
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1614706646 |
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