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FRI Briefings Helicobacter pylori

Gastrointestinal diseases Urticaria Summary References January 1997 Update to Helicobacter pylori Briefing Gastrointestinal diseases Ulcer treatment has been revolutionized by recently discovered knowledge about Helicobacter pylori, a bacterium commonly found in the human gastrointestinal tract. These bacteria were originally thought to be a species of Campylobacter, but a later, more thorough ...

FRI Briefings Food Irradiation

The continuing saga of foodborne disease outbreaks as reported in scientific publications and the popular press has raised consumer anxiety about foodborne illness and revitalized interest in irradiation as a method for eliminating or reducing foodborne pathogens.In addition to the well-known problems of salmonellae on poultry products, E. coli O157:H7 in hamburger, and, most recently, Listeria...

FRI Briefings Hepatitis

We know how the hepatitis A virus (HAV) is spread, but foodborne enteric viruses remain a difficult problem to control. An outbreak affecting 153 schoolchildren and staff in Michigan this spring emphasizes the need for continued vigilance. The frozen strawberries implicated in this outbreak were grown in Mexico and then packaged in a California plant before being distributed to schools (1). The...

SETLabs Briefings - Service Oriented Infrastructure

There is a palpable sense of anticipation about SOA the “new face” of enterprise computing and IT services paradigm. Lot of debate is going on the important SOA issues like application models, service granularity, interfaces, re-use economics etc. The story that is left untold is how some of the so called esoteric technologies like Grid and virtualization make true SOA realizable in practice; w...