Enterococcus and safety / Teresa Semedo-Lemsaddek, Maria Teresa Barreto-Crespo and Rog�erio Tenreiro, editors.
Material type: TextSeries: Advances in food safety and food microbiologyPublisher: New York : Nova/Nova Science Publishers, Inc., [2012]Description: 1 online resource : color illustrationsContent type:- text
- computer
- online resource
- 9781614706649
- 1614706646
- 573.3/7399355 23
- QR201.E64
- QW 142
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction: a journey to the world of enterococcus / L�igia L. Pimentel ... [and others] -- Diversity and ecological niches / Abdelhak Lemsaddek and Rog�erio Tenreiro -- Enterococcal physiology and cell wall structure and dynamics / Mark M. Huycke and Lynn E. Hancock -- Mobile genetic elements and horizontal gene transfer / Teresa M. Coque ... [and others] -- Enterococcal genomes and genomic islands / Veronica N. Kos and Michael S. Gilmore -- Emergence and clonal dissemination of Enterococcus faecium and Enterococcus faecalis in hospitals, the community, and animals / Janetta Top and Rob Willems -- Surveillance of antimicrobial resistance among enterococcus faecium and enterococcus faecalis isolated from human (clinical/commensal), food animal, meat, and environmental samples / Guido Werner -- Are antimicrobial resistant enterococci of animal origin a human hazard? / Anette M. Hammerum, Camilla H. Lester, and Ole E. Heuer -- Pathogenesis and virulence / Teresa Semedo-Lemsaddek and Rosario Mato -- Enterococcal biofilms / Fernanda Laroza Paganelli and Helen L. Leavis -- Protective immune response / Christian Repp and Johannes Huebner -- Transcriptome analysis: towards a comprehensive understanding of global enterococcal transcriptional activity / Margrete Solheim and Ingolf F. Nes -- Proteomics of enterococci: an -omic tool for understanding antibiotic resistance and stress environments / Gilberto Igrejas ... [and others] -- Post-genomic strategies towards the evaluation of pathogenicity potential / Maria De F�atima Silva Lopes, Laura Carrilero and Bruno Gonzalez-Zorn -- Enterococci in food / Maria Teresa Barreto Crespo and Paula Isabel Alves -- Enterococci in water / Caterina Signoretto and Pietro Canepari -- Qualified presumption of safety (Qps) and generally recognized as safe (Gras) concepts / Charles M.A.P. Franz ... [and others] -- Bacteriocins and their application as food bio-preservatives / Hikmate Abriouel ... [and others] -- Probiotics and their applications to improve human and animal health / Varsha Gupta -- Closing remarks: potential risks of enterococci to food safety regarding the 21st century challenges / Maria Teresa Barreto Crespo, Rog�erio Tenreiro, and Teresa Semedo-Lemsaddek.
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English.
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