Foodborne Helminths

Foodborne Diseases

As the title suggests, this book covers relevant topics on foodborne diseases. Most chapters are descriptive, updated, and, given likely pagelength limitations, concise. Of 21 chapters, 6 cover selected foodborne bacterial pathogens: Escherichia coli, Listeria monocytogenes, Clostridium botulinum and C. perfringens, Yersinia enterocolitica and Y. pseudotuberculosis, pathogenic Vibrio spp., and ...

Foodborne disease

Homing in on helminths.

I am honored to give this lecture dedicated to the memory of Dr. Fred Soper, whose pioneering efforts against the insect vectors of malaria and yellow fever are legendary. Soper and his col leagues also played key roles in restoring the con cept of eradication to respectability after the col lapse of earlier campaigns to eradicate hookworm and yellow fever. When Soper was himself in vited to gi...

Foodborne Listeriosis

Foodborne listeriosis is a rare and very dangerous disease which is caused by Listeria monocytogenes. This bacterium is found in the nature in very high population, but can cause disease only in certain groups of people. Listeriosis usually happens after consumption of unpasteurized dairy products especially soft and unripe cheeses and ready to eat meat products like hot dog by susceptible peop...

Cholera and Intestinal Helminths

'o/? the Helminth ological Inquiry, School of ' opicnl Medicine, Calcutta. Under the Indian Research Fund Association) Case reports are fairly common in the literature (especially in India) of ascans in ection accompanied by choleraic symptoms mc 1 have cleared up after passage of the worms, either with or without specific anthelmintic treatment. The evidence in these reports that the worms wer...