Food consumption and disease risk : consumer-pathogen interactions /
| Uniform Title: | Food consumption and disease risk (Print) |
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Boca Raton : Cambridge :
CRC Press ; Woodhead,
2006.
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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