Actions for Enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli and other shiga toxin-producing E. coli
Enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli and other shiga toxin-producing E. coli / edited by Vanessa Sperandio and Carolyn J. Hovde
- Published
- Washington, District of Columbia : ASM Press, 2015.
- Copyright Date
- ©2015
- Physical Description
- 1 online resource (xv, 553 pages) : illustrations
- Additional Creators
- Sperandio, Vanessa and Hovde, Carolyn J.
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- Contents
- Machine generated contents note: OVERVIEW -- 1.Overview and Historical Perspectives / Alison D. O'Brien -- MICROBIOLOGY -- 2.Taxonomy Meets Public Health: The Case of Shiga Toxin-Producing Escherichia coli / Flemming Scheutz -- 3.Shiga Toxin (Stx) Classification, Structure, and Function / Angela R. Melton-Celsa -- 4.Enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli Genomics: Past, Present, and Future / Mark Eppinger -- PATHOGENESIS -- 5.Role of Shiga/Vero Toxins in Pathogenesis / Thomas Obrig -- 6.The Locus of Enterocyte Effacement and Associated Virulence Factors of Enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli / Gad M. Frankel -- 7.Enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli Adhesins / Alfredo G. Torres -- 8.Animal Models of Enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli Infection / Jennifer M. Ritchie -- 9.Enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli Virulence Gene Regulation / Emily Lorenzen -- INCIDENCE, EPIDEMIOLOGY, AND ECOLOGY -- 10.Shiga Toxin (Verotoxin)-Producing Escherichia coli in Japan / Haruo Watanabe -- 11.Animal Reservoirs of Shiga Toxin-Producing Escherichia coli / Jeffrey T. LeJeune -- 12.Shiga Toxin-Producing Escherichia coli in Fresh Produce: A Food Safety Dilemma / Peter Feng -- 13.Public Health Microbiology of Shiga Toxin-Producing Escherichia coli / Stefano Morabito -- DIAGNOSIS, DETECTION, AND STRAIN CHARACTERIZATION -- 14.Detection of Shiga Toxin-Producing Escherichia coli from Nonhuman Sources and Strain Typing / Patrick Fach -- CLINICAL, PATHOLOGICAL, AND PATHOPHYSIOLOGICAL ASPECTS -- 15.Shiga Toxin/Verocytotoxin-Producing Escherichia coli Infections: Practical Clinical Perspectives / Phillip I. Tarr -- 16.The Inflammatory Response during Enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli Infection / Elizabeth L. Hartland -- 17.New Therapeutic Developments against Shiga Toxin-Producing Escherichia coli / Alison D. O'Brien -- HOST DETERMINANTS OF DISEASE AND HOST RESPONSE -- 18.Risk Factors for Shiga Toxin-Producing Escherichia coli-Associated Human Diseases / Marcelo Masana -- 19.Enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli Pathogenesis and the Host Response / Anne-Lie Stahl -- 20.The Interplay between the Microbiota and Enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli / Vanessa Sperandio -- PREVENTION AND CONTROL STRATEGIES -- 21."Preharvest" Food Safety for Escherichia coli O157 and Other Pathogenic Shiga Toxin-Producing Strains / Smriti Shringi -- 22.Peri- and Postharvest Factors in the Control of Shiga Toxin-Producing Escherichia coli in Beef / Gary R. Acuff -- 23.Veterinary Public Health Approach to Managing Pathogenic Verocytotoxigenic Escherichia coli in the Agri-Food Chain / Evonne McCabe -- 24.Clinical Studies of Escherichia coli O157: H7 Conjugate Vaccines in Adults and Young Children / Amina Ahmed -- 25.Vaccination of Cattle against Escherichia coli O157: H7 / David R. Smith -- ESCHERICHIA COLI O104: H4 -- 26.Escherichia coli O104: H4 Pathogenesis: An Enteroaggregative E. coli/Shiga Toxin-Producing E. coli Explosive Cocktail of High Virulence / Fernando Navarro-Garcia -- THE WAY FORWARD -- 27.The Way Forward / Vanessa Sperandio.
- Subject(s)
- Escherichia coli infections
- Escherichia coli O157:H7.
- Verocytotoxins
- Hemolytic-uremic syndrome
- HEALTH & FITNESS / Diseases / General
- MEDICAL / Clinical Medicine
- MEDICAL / Diseases
- MEDICAL / Evidence-Based Medicine
- MEDICAL / Internal Medicine
- Escherichia coli Infections
- Enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli
- Escherichia coli O157
- Shiga Toxins
- Hemolytic-Uremic Syndrome
- Escherichia coli
- ISBN
- 9781555818791 (electronic bk.)
155581879X (electronic bk.) - Bibliography Note
- Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.
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