Foodborne Diseases. Handbook of Food Bioengineering Volume 15

Table of Contents

1. Foodborne Diseases
2. Recent advances in molecular techniques for diagnostics of food borne diseases
3. Important emerging and re-emerging tropical food borne diseases
4. Foodborne pathogens produced toxins acting on signal transduction
5. Campylobacteriosis An Emerging Infectious Foodborne Disease
6. Listeria monocytogenes: A foodborne pathogen
7. Bacillus spp. as pathogens in the dairy industry
8. Staphylococcus aureus a food pathogen: virulence factors and antibiotic resistance
9. Food-borne mycotoxicoses: Pathologies and public health impact
10. Foodborne botulism from a systems biology perspective
11. Pathogenic biofilm formation in the food industry and alternative control strategies
12. Biosensor Based Methods For The Determination Of Foodborne Pathogens
13. Molecular Typing of Major Foodborne Pathogens
14. Environmental Pollution and the Burden of Food-borne Diseases
15. Food borne illness: threats and control

Authors

Alexandru Mihai Grumezescu Assistant Professor, Department of Science and Engineering of Oxide Materials and Nanomaterials, Faculty of Applied Chemistry and Materials Science and Faculty of Medical Engineering, Politehnica University of Bucharest, Romania. Dr. Grumezescu is Assistant Professor at the Department of Science and Engineering of Oxide Materials and Nanomaterials, in the Faculty of Applied Chemistry and Materials Science, with a second affiliation to the Faculty of Medical Engineering, at the Politehnica University of Bucharest in Romania. He is an experienced and oft-published researcher and editor in the field of nano and biomaterials, and he is the Editor-in-Chief of three journals: Biointerface Research in Applied Chemistry, Letters and Applied NanoBioScience, and Biomaterials and Tissue Engineering Bulletin. He also serves as editor or guest editor for several notable journals. Dr. Grumezescu has published 150 peer-reviewed papers, 20 book chapters, 6 co-authored books and 11 edited books. Alina Maria Holban Botany and Microbiology Department, Faculty of Biology, University of Bucharest, Romania. Alina-Maria Holban is a lecturer in Microbiology and Immunology, at the Faculty of Biology, University of Bucharest; and associate researcher at the University Politehnica of Bucharest, Romania. Her primary area of research is the development of bionanomaterials with antimicrobial applications. Dr. Holban has published 75 papers in peer-reviewed journals, 42 conference/symposia proceedings, and has edited more than 21 edited books.