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  title info:
    title: Giardia as a Foodborne Pathogen
  name:
    name part: Robertson, Lucy J.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: xxu
    date issued: 2013
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: V, 57 p. 1 illus. online resource.
  abstract: Although widely recognized as an important waterborne pathogen, Giardia duodenalis can also be transmitted by contamination of food. The same properties of this protozoan parasite that mean that water is an excellent transmission vehicle are also important for foodborne transmission. These include the low infective dose, the high number of cysts that are excreted, and the robustness of these transmission stages. However, many more outbreaks of waterborne giardiasis have been reported than foodborne outbreaks. This is probably partly due to epidemiological tracing being much more difficult for foodborne outbreaks than waterborne outbreaks, and the number of persons exposed to infection often being fewer. Nevertheless, the potential importance of foodborne transmission is gradually being recognized, and a wide range of different foodstuffs have been associated with those outbreaks that have been recorded. Additionally, various factors mean that the potential for foodborne transmission is becoming of increasing importance: these include the growth of international food trade, a current trend for eating raw or very lightly cooked foods, and the rise in small-scale organic farms, where there the possibility for contamination of vegetable crops with animal faeces may be greater.
  table of contents: Introduction to the parasite: biology (including species and genotypes), lifecycle, pathology, treatment -- Transmission routes and factors that lend themselves to foodborne transmission -- Documented foodborne outbreaks -- Approaches to detecting Giardia cysts in different food matrices -- Occurence of Giardia cysts in different food matrices: results of surveys -- Inactivation or decontamination procedures -- Risk assessment and regulations -- Future challenges -- Conclusions -- References.
  note: by Lucy J. Robertson.
  subject:
    topic: Medicine
  subject:
    topic: Parasitology
  subject:
    topic: Food
    topic: Biotechnology
  subject:
    topic: Biomedicine
  subject:
    topic: Parasitology
  subject:
    topic: Food Science
  classification: QR251-255
  classification: 616.96
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    title info:
      title: Springer eBooks
  related item:
    title info:
      title: SpringerBriefs in Food, Health, and Nutrition
  identifier: 9781461477563
  identifier: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-7756-3
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    record creation date: 130625
    record change date: 20151103121048.0
    record identifier: 978-1-4614-7756-3