Foodborne Toxoplasmosis

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

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...

Ocular toxoplasmosis

A large amount of research has been done on toxoplasmosis in the last 30 years, and the world-wide incidence of the infection, and its clinical manifestations, are recognized and documented in an extensive literature. New discoveries concerning the life-cycle of the organism (Frenkel, I970; Hutchison, Dunachie, Siim, and Work, I970) promise to solve many of the problems of the transmission of i...

Ocular Toxoplasmosis

Address for Correspondence: Dr. Jyothirmay Biswas, Head of the Department of Ocular-Pathology and Uvea, Medical and Vision Research Foundations, Sankara Nethralaya, 18, College Road, Chennai-600 006, E-mail: [email protected] Toxoplasmosis is the most common cause of posterior uveitis in many parts of the world. Prevalence is more in tropical countries than cold areas. 1,2 It is caused by Toxopla...