Foodborne and Waterborne Bacterial Pathogens: Epidemiology, Evolution and Molecular Biology

Specialists in biological, medical, and food sciences describe various bacterial pathogens that spread through water or food, their pathogenic properties, population genetics, virulence genes, epidemiology, identification, and control strategies. Among the topics are the population genetics and molecular epidemiology of Shigella species, molecular aspects of pathogenesis and drug resistance in Salmonella species, epidemiology and genetics of the pandemic clone of Vibrio parahaemolyticus, the biology of Campylobacter infection, and bacterial factors encoded by mobile and integrative genetic elements in enteric pathogens. Distributed in the US by ISBS. Annotation 2012 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)