[Annotatie]: In answer to public concerns,Microbial Food Safety in Animal Agriculture: Current Topicsprovides timely information on this area of increasing importance, giving a broad overview of pre harvest microbial food safety.[Inhoudsopgave]: Contributors. Introduction. Section 1 Overview of Food Safety: 1) Federal Activities, Research, and Initiatives in Food Safety M. Torrence; 2) Academic Activities in Food Safety, Centers, Consortia, and Initiatives L. Jaykus; 3) Food Animal Industry Activities in Food Safety P. Cowen, D. Hansen, C. Hofacre, E. Noga, D. Pyburn, A. G. Wondwossen;Section 2 Antimicrobial Resistance in Foodbome Organisms: 4) Epidemiology and Ecology of Antimicrobial Resistance R. Singer; 5) Antimicrobial Susceptibility Testing Methodologies D. White, P. McDermott, R. Walker; 6) Antibiotics: Mode of Action, Mechanisms of Resistance and Tranfer K. Keyes, M. Lee, J. Maurer; 7) Regulatory Activities of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration Designed to Control Antimicrobial Resistance in Foodborne Pathogens L. Tollefson, W. Flynn, M. Headrick; 8) Prevention and Control Activities to Address Antimicrobial Resistance L. Vogel;Section 3Salmonella spp.: 9) The Epidemiology and Ecology of Salmonella in Meat Producing Animals C. Wray, R. H. Davies; 10) Detection/Diagnosis of Salmonella C. W. Maddox; 11) Genetics and pathogenesis of Salmonella S. Patterson and R. E. Isaacson; 12) Food borne Salmonella Infections W. Rabsch, C. Altier, H. Tschape, A. J. Baumler; 13) Molecular Pathobiology And Epidemiology of Egg Contaminating Salmonella enterica serovar Entetitidis J. Guard Petter, E. Liebana, T. J. Humphrey, and F. Jorgensen; 14) Multiple Antibiotic Resistance and Virulence of Salmonella enterica serotype Typhimurium phagetype DTI04 S. A. Carlson, M. T. Wu and T. S. Frana;Section 4Escherichia coli 0157:H7: 15) The Epidemiology of Escherichia coli 0157:H7 J. Sargeant, D. Smith; 16) Detection and Diagnosis of Escherichia coli 0157:H7 in Food Producing Animals R. A. Moxley; 17) Molecular and Population Genetics of Virulence Traits in Escherichia coli 0157:H7 A. Benson; 18) Prevention and control of Escherichia coli 0157:H7 T. E. Besser, J. T. Lejeune, D. Rice, D. D. Hancock;Section 5Campylobacter spp.:19) Epidemiology of Campylobacter spp. in Animals J. Kaneene, R.Church Potter; 20) Detection of Campylobacter O. Sabin, Q. Zhang, Y. Morishita; 21) In vitro and in vivo models used to study Campylobacter jejuni virulence proper ties M. E. Konkel, M. R. Monteville, J. D. Klena, and L. A. Joens; 22) Campylobacter Control and Prevention D. G Newell and H. C Davison;Section 6Listeria monocytogenes: 23) Epidemiology of Listeriosis Y.H. Schukken, Y. T. Grohn, M. Wiedmann; 24) Detection and Diagnosis of Listeria and Listeriosis in Animals I. V. Wesley, M. Borucki, D. R. Call, D. Larson, L. Schroeder Tucker; 25) Food borne outbreaks of listeriosis and epidemic associated lineages of Listeria monocyrogenes Sophia Kathariou; 26) Listeria mono cytogenes S. E. Martin;Section 7 Risk Assessment: 27) Microbial Risk Assessment A. S. Ahl, D. M. Byrd and A. Dessai; 28) Sampling Techniques for Food Borne Pathogens in Animals and Animal Products M. Salman, B. Wagner, I. Gardner; 29) The Salmonella Enteriditis Risk Assessment W. D. Schlosser, E. D. Ebel, B. K. Hope, A. T. Hogue, R. Whiting, R. Morales, R. McDowell, A. Baker; 30) Characterizing the Risk of Antimicrobial Use in Food Animals: Fluoroquinolone resistant Campylobacter from Consumption of Chicken M. J. Bartholomew, K. Hollinger, D. Vose; 31) Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy: Risk Assessment and Governmental Policy A. Courtney, M. Porretta, J. Cohen, G. Gray, S. Kriendel, D.Gallagher; 32) A Risk Assessment of Escherichia coli 0157:H7 in Ground Beef E. Ebel, W. Schlosser, K. Orloski, J. Kause, T. Roberts, C. Narrod, S. Malcolm, M. Coleman, and M. Powell;Section 8 Emerging Issues: 33) Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy W. D. Hueston; 34) Caliciviruses and other potential foodborne viruses M. Guo, J. Vinje, and L.J. Saif; 35) Paratuberculosis: A Food Safety Concern? W. P. Shulaw and A. Larew Naugle; 36) Toxoplasmagondii D. E. Hill and]. P. Dubey; 37) Aquaculture and Pre harvest Food Safety J. Levine; 38) Antimicrobial residues and residue detection in milk and dairy products S. M. Andrew. Index