This book provides comprehensive coverage of security sensitive microbials (viruses, bacteria, fungi and parasites) and toxins, with an emphasis on state-of-the-art coverage of the topics. Each chapte
This book focuses on the value and utility of laboratory models in the study of foodborne infectious diseases. Each chapter presents a state-of-the-art review of laboratory models used for the study o
While the vast majority of our food supplies are nutritious and safe, foodborne pathogen-related illness still affects millions of people each year. Large outbreaks of foodborne diseases — such
Traditionally, laboratory identification of parasites has relied upon various phenotypic procedures that detect their morphological, biological, and immunological features. Because these procedures te
Clearly linked to consumption of foods, beverages, and drinking water that contain pathogenic microbes, toxins, or other toxic agents, foodborne diseases have undergone a remarkable change of fortune
For about the last 20 years viruses have been subject to profoundly enhanced molecular technologies, and the preface to this reference clearly states the results: "...many viruses that were once consi
An Indispensable Roadmap for Nucleic Acid Preparation Although Friedrich Miescher described the first isolation of nucleic acid in 1869, it was not until 1953 that James Watson and Francis Crick succe
Despite being recognized and fought against over countless centuries, human viral pathogens continue to cause major public health problems worldwide—killing millions of people and costing billions of
As more original molecular protocols and subsequent modifications are described in the literature, it has become difficult for those not directly involved in the development of these protocols to know
Part of the Pocket Guides to Biomedical Sciences series, Pocket Guide to Tumors and Cancer focuses on tumors and cancer, which are characterized by an abnormal growth of cells that extend beyond their
Part of the Pocket Guides to Biomedical Sciences series, Tumors and Cancers focuses on tumors and cancer, which are characterized by an abnormal growth of cells that extend beyond their usual boundari
