Food consumption and disease risk : consumer-pathogen interactions /

Bibliographic Details
Uniform Title:Food consumption and disease risk (Print)
Other Authors: Potter, Morris E.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Boca Raton : Cambridge : CRC Press ; Woodhead, 2006.
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction to foodborne illness : public health impact, pathogens and consumers
  • Populations at elevated risk of foodborne disease
  • Globalization of the food supply and the influence of economic factors on the contamination of food with pathogens
  • Trends in agricultural management and land use and the risk of foodborne disease
  • Influence of food processing practices and technologies on consumer-pathogen interactions
  • Exposure assessment for foodborne pathogens
  • Using surveillance data to characterize and analyze risk factors for foodborn illness
  • Nonspecific host defenses against foodborne pathogens
  • Specific immune mechanisms of defence against foodborne pathogens
  • Enhanced susceptibility to foodborne infections and disease due to underlying illnesses and pregnancy
  • Evolutionary parasitology : the development of invasion, evasion and survival mechanisms used by bacterial, viral, protozoan and metazoan parasites
  • Foodborne microbe mechanisms of colonization, attachment and invasion
  • Hijacking the host cell : foodborne pathogen strategies for reproduction and defense evasion
  • Role of viruses in foodborne disease
  • Pathogenic mechanisms of foodborne viral disease
  • Pathogenic mechanisms of food- and waterborne parasitic disease
  • Dose-response relationships and foodborne disease