Cardiology clinics : Issue on infective endocarditis

Cardiology clinics : issue on infective endocarditis

Chapters included :

1) Assessment and management of complications in infective endocarditis
2) Current best practices and guidelines Indications for surgical intervention in infective endocarditis
3) Diagnostic methods Current best practices and guidelines for isolation of bacteria and fungi in infective endocarditis 1
4) Diagnostic methods Current best practices and guidelines for isolation of bacteria and fungi in infective endocarditis 2
5) Imaging techniques for diagnosis of infective endocarditis
6) Infections of intracardiac devices
7) Infective endocarditis and cardiac surgery in intravenous drug abusers and HIV-1 infected patients
8) Infective endocarditis
9) internatioanl coll on IE
10) Staphylococcus aureus bacteremia and endocarditis

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Toxoplasma Gondii: The Model Apicomplexan. Perspectives and Methods

Toxoplasma Gondii: The Model Apicomplexan. Perspectives and Methods
by Louis M Weiss (Editor), Kami Kim (Editor)

Product Details
Hardcover: 800 pages
Publisher: Academic Press; 1 edition (April 10, 2007)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0123695422

Book Description
Toxoplasmosis is caused by a one-celled protozoan parasite known as Toxoplasma gondii. In the United States, it is estimated that approximately 30% of cats, the primary carriers, have been infected by T. gondii. Most humans contract toxoplasmosis by eating cyst-contaminated raw or undercooked meat, vegetables, or milk products or when they come into contact with the T. gondii eggs from cat feaces while cleaning a cat's litterbox, gardening, or playing in a sandbox. Approx 1 in 4 (more than 60 million) people in the USA are infected with the parasite, and in the UK between 0.5 and 1% of individuals become infected each year. By the age of 50, 40% of people test positive for the parasite. The predilection of this parasite is for the central nervous system (CNS) causing behavioral and personality alterations as well as fatal necrotizing encephalitis, and is especially dangerous for HIV infected patients.
Though there have been tremendous strides in our understanding of the biology of Toxoplasma gondii in the last decade, there has been no systemic review of all of the information that has accumulated. Toxoplasma gondii provides the first comprehensive summary of literature on this organism by leading experts in the field who were responsible for organising the 7th International Congress on Toxoplasmosis in May 2003. It offeres systematic reviews of the biology of this pathogen as well as descriptions of the methods and resources used. Within the next year the T. gondii genome will be completed making this an indispensable research resource for biologists, physicians, parasitologists, and for all those contemplating experiments using T. gondii.

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Food spoilage microorganisms

Food spoilage microorganisms
by Clive de W. Blackburn (Editor)

Product Details
Hardcover: 712 pages
Publisher: CRC; 1 edition (March 31, 2006)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0849391563

Book Description
The control of microbiological spoilage requires an understanding of a number of factors including the knowledge of possible hazards, their likely occurrence in different products, their physiological properties, and the availability and effectiveness of different preventative measures. Food Spoilage Microorganisms focuses on the control of microbial spoilage and provides an understanding necessary to do this. The first part of this essential new book looks at tools, techniques, and methods for the detection and analysis of microbial food spoilage with chapters focusing on analytical methods, predictive modeling, and stability and shelf life assessment. The second part tackles the management of microbial food spoilage with particular reference to some of the major food groups where the types of spoilage, the causative microorganisms, and methods for control are considered by product type. The following three parts are then dedicated to yeasts, molds, and bacteria in turn, and look in more detail at the major organisms of significance for food spoilage. In each chapter the taxonomy, spoilage characteristics, growth, survival, and death characteristics, methods for detection, and control options are discussed. Food Spoilage Microorganisms takes an applied approach to the subject and will be an indispensable guide both for the microbiologist and the non-specialist, particularly those whose role involves microbial quality in food processing operations.

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