Food-Borne Pathogens : Methods and Protocols

A collection of readily reproducible classic and emerging molecular methods for the laboratory isolation and identification of the pathogens, viruses, and parasites that cause food-borne disease. Among the pathogens covered are specific bacteria, including Salmonella spp, Campylobacter spp., Listeria spp., and Bacillus spp.;

Part I. The Bacteria Detection of Hemolysins in Aeromonas spp. Isolates From Food Sources: PCR Analysis and Biological Activity Rosabel Falcón, Tatiana d''Albuquerque e Castro, Maria das Graças de Luna, Angela Corrêa de Freitas-Almeida, and Tomomasa Yano Detection and Purification of Bacillus cereus Enterotoxins Toril Lindbäck and Per Einar Granum Campylobacter: Isolation, Identification, and Preservation Rachel Gorman and Catherine C. Adley Detection of Clostridium botulinum by Multiplex PCR in Foods and Feces Miia Lindström, Mari Nevas, and Hannu Korkeala Multiplex PCR for Specific Identification of Enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli Strains in the O157:H7 Complex Peter C. H. Feng and Steven R. Monday PulseNet''s Step-by-Step Laboratory Protocol for Molecular Subtyping of Listeria monocytogenes by Macrorestriction and Pulsed-Field Gel Electrophoresis Lewis M. Graves and Balasubramanian Swaminathan Plesiomonas shigelloides: Detection by PCR Ivan Ciznar, Carlos González-Rey, Karel Krovacek, and Anna Hostacka Pulsed-Field Gel Electrophoresis As a Molecular Technique in Salmonella Epidemiological Studies Rachel Gorman and Catherine C. Adley Kits for Detection of Food Poisoning Toxins Produced by Bacillus cereus and Staphylococcus aureus Moira M. Brett Microbiological and Molecular Methods to Identify and Characterize Toxigenic Vibrio cholerae From Food Samples Keya De, Ranjan K. Nandy, and G. Balakrish Nair HPLC Measurement of Aflatoxin B1 and Metabolites in Isolated Rat Hepatocytes Jennifer Colford Part II. The Viruses Detection of Noroviruses of Genogroups I and II in Drinking Water by Real-Time One-Step RT-PCR Christian M. Beuret Detection of Enteroviruses Miguel-Angel Jiménez-Clavero, Victoria Ley, Nuria Gómez, and Juan-CarlosSáiz Detection of Hepatitis A Virus and Rotavirus Using Nucleic Acid Sequence-Based Amplification Julie Jean and Ismaïl Fliss Part III. The Parasites Isolation and Characterization of Cathepsin-L1 Protease From Fasciola hepatica Excretory-Secretory Products for Serodiagnosis of Human Fasciolosis Sandra M. O''Neill, Grace Mulcahy, and John P. Dalton Molecular Biology Methods for Detection and Identification of Cryptosporidium Species in Feces, Water, and Shellfish Colm J. Lowery, L. Xiao, U. M. Ryan, James S. G. Dooley, B. Cherie Millar, and John E. Moore Molecular Identification of Nematode Worms From Seafood (Anisakis spp. and Pseudoterranova spp.) and Meat (Trichinella spp.) Giuseppe La Rosa, Stefano D''Amelio, and Edoardo Pozio Part IV. Parallel Studies to the Analysis of Food-Borne Pathogens Approaches to Developing Quantitative Risk Assessment Models Enda J. Cummins A Review of Surveillance Networks of Food-Borne Diseases Camelia Molnar, Rita Wels, and Catherine C. Adley Index