Tracing pathogens in the food chain / edited by Stanley Brul, Pina M. Fratamico and Tom A. McMeekin.

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Foodborne pathogen surveillance and outbreak investigation -- Surveillance for foodborne pathogens in humans -- Systems for real-time, linked foodborne pathogen surveillance -- Detection, investigation and control of outbreaks of foodborne disease -- Attributing the burden of foodborne disease to specific sources of infection -- Determiningthe economic costs and global burden of foodborne disease -- Subtyping of foodborne pathogens -- Phenotypic subtyping of foodborne pathogens -- Pulsed-field gel electrophoresis and other commonly used molecular methods for subtyping of foodborne bacteria -- Emerging methods for foodborne bacterial subtyping -- Development, validation and quality assurance of methods for subtyping of foodborne pathogens -- Molecular methods, genomics and other emerging approaches in the surveillance and study of foodborne pathogens -- Sample preparation for the detection of foodborne pathogens by molecular biological methods -- Comparison of molecular technologies and genomotyping for tracing and strain characterization of Campylobacter isolates -- Investigating foodborne pathogens using comparative genomics -- Protein-based analysis and other new and emerging non-nucleic acid based methods for tracing and investigating foodborne pathogens -- Virulotyping of foodborne pathogens -- Using ribotyping to trace foodborne aerobic spore-forming bacteria in the factory: a case study -- Biotracing: a novel concept in food safety integrating microbiology knowledge, complex systems approaches and probalistic modelling -- Tracing pathogens in particular food chains -- Tracing pathogens in red meat and game production chains and at the abattoir -- Tracing pathogens in fish production chains -- Tracing pathogens in poultry and egg production and at the abattoir -- Tracing zoonotic pathogens in dairy production -- Tracing pathogens in molluscan shellfish production chains -- Tracing pathogens in fruit and vegetable production chains.