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inconsistent with a foodborne intoxication. Finally, the ability to pro- duce the toxin is not confined to pathogenicY. enteroco ...

for eating raw pork. In 1988/9 an outbreak of yersiniosis in Atlanta involving 15 victims (14 children) was strongly associated ...

taste in the mouth, itching, dizziness, flushing of the face and neck, often followed by a severe headache, feverishness, diarrh ...

with time. The food microbiologist must be continually vigilant in anticipating the effect that changes in dietary preferences a ...

CHAPTER 8 Non-bacterial Agents of Foodborne Illness We have seen that foods may act as a vehicle for viable bacteria such as Sal ...

finally establishes itself in the bile duct after entering and feeding on the liver. Having matured, it eventually produces quit ...

their environment. Cysts will only develop further if they are swallowed by an appropriate definitive host, usually cattle or sh ...

consumption of muscle tissue containing encysted larvae which have curled up in a characteristic manner in a cyst with a calcifi ...

grow up to about 1 mm before curling up and encysting. Such cysts were first shown to contain these tiny worm larvae by a first ...

8.2.1 Giardia lamblia Although usually associated with water, or transmission from person to person by poor hygiene, a number of ...

8.2.2 Entamoeba histolytica Amoebic dysentery can be very widespread wherever there is poor hygiene, for it is usually transmitt ...

sexual reproduction of the parasite takes place being a carnivore such as cats, dogs or humans, and an intermediate host such as ...

temperature, light and nutrients are appropriate. Gonyaulax catenella andG. tamarensis(now both referred to the genusAlexandrium ...

For many years a strange type of poisoning occurring after eating a number of different species of edible fish, including moray ...

central nervous system known as domoic acid (Figure 8.7). This com- pound had been produced byNitzschia pungens, a chain-forming ...

parasitic associations have become very complex and even obligate. However, it is the ability of some moulds to produce toxic me ...

distinction based on human behaviour and not on the chemistry, bio- chemistry or toxicology of the compounds. There are relative ...

industry and the manufacture of pelleted feed which supported it, a considerable effort was put into understanding the etiology ...

hepatitis X in dogs which had been described nearly a decade earlier but had remained a mystery. Very sensitive analytical metho ...

stringent legislative or guideline levels, some of the more recent of which are shown in Table 8.3. It is now realized that afla ...