Identification of a Prepore Large-Complex Stage in the Mechanism of Action of Clostridium perfringens Enterotoxin James G. Smedley III, Francisco A. Uzal, and Bruce A. McClane* Department of Molecular Genetics and Biochemistry and Molecular Virology and Microbiology Graduate Program, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and California Animal Health and Food Saf...

János Varga1*, Krisztina Rigó1, Beáta Tóth2, József Téren3 and Zofia Kozakiewicz4 Department of Microbiology, Faculty of Sciences, University of Szeged, P.O. Box 533, H-6701 Szeged, Hungary Cereal Research Non-profit Company, P.O. Box 391, H-6701 Szeged, Hungary Animal Health and Food Control Station, P.O. Box 446, H-6701 Szeged, Hungary CABI Bioscience UK Centre, Bakeham Lane, Egham, Surrey TW...

Katrin Zurfuh, Laurent Poirel, Patrice Nordmann, Magdalena Nüesch-Inderbinen, Herbert Hächler, Roger Stephan Institute for Food Safety and Hygiene, Vetsuisse Faculty, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland; Emerging Antibiotic Resistance Unit, Medical and Molecular Microbiology, Department of Medicine, Faculty of Science, University of Fribourg, and HFR Hôpital Cantonal, Fribourg, Switzerland

Department of Veterinary Microbiology and Preventive Medicine, 1116 Veterinary 6 Medicine Complex, Iowa State University, Ames, IA 50011, USA; Department of 7 Veterinary Public Health, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, 10330, Thailand; 8 Department of Food Science and Human Nutrition, 220 MacKay, Iowa State University, 9 Ames, Iowa 50011, USA; College of Veterinary Medicine, Nanjing Agricultur...

editorial

Nowadays, there is increasing interest in the production of functional foods, particularly probiotic foods. Lactic acid bacteria (LAB) particularly strains of Lactobacillus are important bacteria in food microbiology and human nutrition due to their ability to fermented food production and have received considerable attention as probiotics. The traditional fermented dairy foods as a rich source...

infections of the cerebrospinal shunts and other neurosurgical structures are not uncommon in the clinical practice. these infections are mostly clinical emergencies carrying negative prognostic impacts on the patients as well as spending healthcare resources. the low pathogenicity nature of some implicated pathogens results in minimal physical signs that may complicate the diagnosis and mislea...

In the food production, operating environment, personnel, equipment and many other factors may introduce microbiological hazards into food, which makes consumers face health and safety risk. Effective implementation of risk management is essential to ensure food safety. In order to search, assess, prevent and control of varieties of risk factors, modular process risk modeling method is improved...

The Skylab manned space flight program presented unique food microbiology problems. This challenge was successfully met by careful evaluation of the total Skylab food system by considering the nature of Skylab foods, their processing and handling, and Skylab food safety requirements. Some of the unique problems encountered with the Skylab foods involved: extended storage times, variations in st...