Enterococcus and safety
By: editors, Teresa Semedo-Lemsaddek, Maria Teresa Barreto-Crespo, Rogério Tenreiro
Publisher: Nova Science
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Hauppauge, N.Y
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781614705697
Subjects: Enterococcal infections; Food Microbiology; Food Safety; Water Microbiology; Food microbiology; Enterococcus
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : a journey to the world of enterococcus / Lígia L. Pimentel ... [et al.]; title: Diversity and ecological niches / Abdelhak Lemsaddek and Rogério Tenreiro; title: Enterococcal physiology and cell wall structure and dynamics / Mark M. Huycke and Lynn E. Hancock; title: Mobile genetic elements and horizontal gene transfer / Teresa M. Coque ... [et al.]; title: Enterococcal genomes and genomic islands / Veronica N. Kos and Michael S. Gilmore; title: Emergence and clonal dissemination of Enterococcus faecium and Enterococcus faecalis in hospitals, the community, and animals / Janetta Top and Rob Willems; title: Surveillance of antimicrobial resistance among enterococcus faecium and enterococcus faecalis isolated from human (clinical/commensal), food animal, meat, and environmental samples / Guido Werner; title: Are antimicrobial resistant enterococci of animal origin a human hazard? / Anette M. Hammerum, Camilla H. Lester, and Ole E. Heuer; title: Pathogenesis and virulence / Teresa Semedo-Lemsaddek and Rosario Mato; title: Enterococcal biofilms / Fernanda Laroza Paganelli and Helen L. Leavis; title: Protective immune response / Christian Repp and Johannes Huebner; title: Transcriptome analysis : towards a comprehensive understanding of global enterococcal transcriptional activity / Margrete Solheim and Ingolf F. Nes; title: Proteomics of enterococci: an -omic tool for understanding antibiotic resistance and stress environments / Gilberto Igrejas ... [et al.]; title: Post-genomic strategies towards the evaluation of pathogenicity potential / Maria De Fátima Silva Lopes, Laura Carrilero and Bruno Gonzalez-Zorn; title: Enterococci in food / Maria Teresa Barreto Crespo and Paula Isabel Alves; title: Enterococci in water / Caterina Signoretto and Pietro Canepari; title: Qualified presumption of safety (Qps) and generally recognized as safe (Gras) concepts / Charles M.A.P. Franz ... [et al.]; title: Bacteriocins and their application as food bio-preservatives / Hikmate Abriouel ... [et al.]; title: Probiotics and their applications to improve human and animal health / Varsha Gupta; title: Closing remarks : potential risks of enterococci to food safety regarding the 21st century challenges / Maria Teresa Barreto Crespo, Rogério Tenreiro, and Teresa Semedo-Lemsaddek.