| Description |
1 online resource (xv, 553 pages) : illustrations |
| 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 |
| Summary |
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 understanding the diseases caused by EHEC and STEC |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Escherichia coli infections.
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Escherichia coli O157:H7.
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Verocytotoxins.
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Hemolytic-uremic syndrome.
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Escherichia coli.
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Escherichia coli
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Escherichia coli Infections
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Escherichia coli O157
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Hemolytic-Uremic Syndrome
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HEALTH & FITNESS -- Diseases -- General.
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MEDICAL -- Clinical Medicine.
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MEDICAL -- Diseases.
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MEDICAL -- Evidence-Based Medicine.
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MEDICAL -- Internal Medicine.
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Escherichia coli
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Hemolytic-uremic syndrome
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Escherichia coli infections
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Escherichia coli O157:H7
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Verocytotoxins
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Sperandio, Vanessa, editor.
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Hovde, Carolyn J., editor.
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| ISBN |
9781555818791 |
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155581879X |
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