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Sheds new light on microbial communities and their interactions within and between different environments, with particular emphasis on food systems.
Explores emerging interdisciplinary areas, with expert coverage from researchers in environmental, food, oral, medical, and veterinary microbiology. Offers new perspectives on the important relationship of food and food-borne microfloras to public health. Elucidates the complexity of microbial ecosystems associated with various types of foods. Identifies key elements of the food chain that should be considered in ecosystem studies. Addresses positive and negative effects of food-borne microbes on the host and their roles in shaping the ecosystems of the gut and oral cavities.Reviews 1
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Food-borne microbial diseases plagued people for centuries. These illnesses caused by improperly prepared and stored food compelled people to find safe strategies for handling food. The growth of modern technology contributed greatly to food preparation and storage, as well as to promoting strategies for food safety testing. This book is a contemporary collection of essays written by contributors from a variety of research disciplines related to environmental and food microbiology. Its 19 chapters are divided into 5 parts, which highlight the major ideas related to the ecology of food-borne microorganisms. It begins with research on microbial ecosystems (essential to understanding the factors contributing to food-related diseases), and provides the relevant background information on the environmental factors of food production, storage, and consumption. These topics are put in the context of how food microbes interact in the human body when causing disease. Additionally, the work discusses the toxicology of food-related illnesses, and addresses antibiotic resistance and other issues related to "superbugs." The text ends with two contemporary assessments of emerging strategies for analyzing and modeling the microbial ecology of food-borne microbial illnesses. Each chapter contains ample primary current references. Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-division undergraduate through professional collections. B. R. Shmaefsky Lone Star College - Kingwood
Table of Contents
| Contributors | p. ix |
| Preface | p. xiii |
| I Circulation and Dynamics Among Microbial Ecosystems | p. 1 |
| 1 The Oral Microbial Ecosystem and Beyond | p. 3 |
| 2 The Gut Microbiome: Current Understanding and Future Perspectives | p. 19 |
| 3 Natural Microbial Ecosystems and Their Progression in Fresh Foods | p. 41 |
| 4 Microbial Succession and Gut Health: Probiotics | p. 63 |
| 5 Interactions between Environmental Microbial Ecosystems and Humans: the Case of the Water Environment and Antibiotic Resistance | p. 81 |
| II Interactions and Modifications Within Microbial Ecosystems | p. 93 |
| 6 Biofilms in the Food Environment | p. 95 |
| 7 Quorum Sensing and Signal Transduction in Biofilms: the Impacts of Bacterial Social Behavior on Biofilm Ecology | p. 117 |
| 8 Molecular Mechanisms of Microbial Survival in Foods | p. 135 |
| 9 Using Microbial Succession to the Processor's Advantage: Food Fermentation and Biocontrol | p. 161 |
| 10 The Interaction of Bile Salts with Pathogenic and Nonpathogenic Intestinal Bacteria | p. 183 |
| 11 The Influence of Helminths on Immunological Diseases | p. 201 |
| III Antibiotic Resistance | p. 211 |
| 12 The Evolution of Antibiotic-Resistant Microbes in Foods and Host Ecosystems | p. 213 |
| 13 Antimicrobial Resistance in Food-Borne Pathogens | p. 231 |
| 14 Commensal Bacteria, Microbial Ecosystems, and Horizontal Gene Transmission: Adjusting Our Focus for Strategic Breakthroughs against Antibiotic Resistance | p. 267 |
| IV Model Organisms | p. 283 |
| 15 Antibiotic Resistance and Fitness of Enteric Pathogens | p. 285 |
| 16 Staphylococcus aureus: the "Superbug" | p. 297 |
| 17 Mycobacterium avium subsp. paratuberculosis: an Unconventional Pathogen? | p. 311 |
| V Emerging Tools and Issues | p. 323 |
| 18 Molecular Methods To Study Complex Microbial Communities Dionysios | p. 325 |
| 19 Mathematical Modeling of Microbial Ecology: Spatial Dynamics of Interactions in Biofilms and Guts | p. 347 |
| Index | p. 379 |
