Table of Contents
Table of Contents
Preface
Chapter 1
Listeria monocytogenes as a Food Contaminant: A Genomic Perspective
(Agni Hadjilouka, Spiros Paramithiotis and Eleftherios H. Drosinos, Laboratory of Food Quality Control and Hygiene, Department of Food Science and Human Nutrition, Agricultural University of Athens, Iera Odos, Athens, Greece)
Chapter 2
Listeria monocytogenes : Growth in Biofilms in the Food Industry
(Pierluigi Di Ciccio, Domenico Meloni, and Adriana Ianieri, Department of Food Science, University of Parma, Parma, Italy, and others)
Chapter 3
Listeria monocytogenes Outbreaks: Epidemiological Update and Control Possibilities
(Pellicer Karina, Brusa Victoria, Laboratorio de Microbiología de los Alimentos de la Facultad de Ciencias Veterinarias, Universidad Nacional de La Plata, La Plata, Buenos Aires, República Argentina)
Chapter 4
Listeria monocytogenes and Ready-to-Eat Meat-Based Food Products: Incidence and Control
(A.R. Henriques, M.J. Fraqueza, CIISA, Faculdade de Medicina Veterinária, ULisboa; Avenida da Universidade Técnica, Lisboa, Portugal)
Chapter 5
Prevalence of Listeria monocytogenes in Poultry Marketed in Iran: Characterization and Antimicrobial Resistance of the Isolates
(Hossein Jamali, Behrad Radmehr, and Domenico Meloni, Department of Pathology and Microbiology, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Montreal, St-Hyacinthe, Quebec, Canada, and others)
Chapter 6
Adhesion and Biofilm Formation of Listeria monocytogenes on Food Contact Surfaces: General Aspects and Control Measures
(Letícia Sopeña Casarin, and Eduardo Cesar Tondo, Instituto de Ciência e Tecnologia de Alimentos, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul – ICTA/UFRGS, Brazil, and others)
Chapter 7
The Gastrointestinal Phase of Listeria monocytogenes Infection
(Roy D. Sleator, Department of Biological Sciences, Cork Institute of Technology, Bishopstown, Cork, Ireland)
Chapter 8
Several Methods for Determination of Phagocytic and Killing Activities of Macrophages Against Listeria monocytogenes nfection -Which is the Simplest and Reproducible Method?-
(Masakazu Kaneko, Yu-ju Kanayama, Yoshiko Emoto, and Masashi Emoto, Laboratory of Immunology, Department of Laboratory Sciences, Gunma University Graduate School of Health Sciences, Maebashi, Gunma,
Japan)
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