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Filtering by: Creator Gayán, E. Non-Academic Affiliation Oregon State University. Graduate School Subject Clostridium difficile

Survival Assessment, Inactivation Kinetics Models, and Farm-to-Table Quantitative Risk Analysis of Food Pathogens

Creator:

Deng, Kai

Abstract:

About 48 million cases of Foodborne illnesses (FBIs) are estimated to occur every year in the US. These are diseases caused by contamination of foods with bacteria, viruses, protozoa, parasites and toxic chemicals. Clostridium difficile infections (CDIs) are an important health-care and community associated problem. Since C. difficile spores have...

Resource Type:

Dissertation

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aureus, Campylobacter spp., pathogenic E. coli, Listeria monocytogenes, Y. enterocolitica, Arcobacter