Encyclopedia of Food Microbiology (3-Volume Set with Online Version)

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The Encyclopedia of Food Microbiology, Three-Volume Set is the largest comprehensive reference source of current knowledge available in the field of food microbiology. Consisting of nearly 400 articles, in three volumes, written by the world's leading scientists, the Encyclopedia presents a highly structured distillation of the whole field--from Acetobacter to Zymomonas. Each article in the Encyclopedia is approximately 4000 words in length and contains tables, line drawings, black-and-white photographs, or electron micrographs, where appropriate. The articles critically review the current state of knowledge of the topic in question. A list of suggested further reading is provided at the end of each article allowing the interested reader to research the subject more closely.
The Encyclopedia is written at the research/technician level and could be used as a coursebook. Practitioners in industry, analysts, and similar professionals will especially be interested in the methodologies and techniques theme.

Includes 358 articles in the following areas of Food Microbiology:
* Food-borne organisms: their characteristics and importance
* Micro-organisms in action
* Detection and enumeration

Key Features:
* Provides an alphabetical article listing and a listing arranged according to subject area
* Offers further reading lists in each article which allows easy access to the primary literature
* Contains extensive cross-referencing and complete subject index in each volume
* Includes many figures and tables illustrating the text and color plate sections in each volume

Articles cover:
* All the major genera/groups of food spoilage and food-borne disease organisms
* The beneficial activities of bacteria and fungi in the food industry
* Industrial aspects of microbiology
* The microbiology of specific commodities
* Classical methods for the enumeration of bacteria and fungi
* Total colony counts for the detection and/or enumeration of specific genera/species
* MPN procedures, dye reduction tests, and direct microscopic counts
* Recent methods for examining foods, e.g. automated PCR and ELISAs
* Current tests for individual genera such as API carbohydrate strips

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A student's resource.......2000-09-26

This set is at the library at my university. I like it so much, that I wanted to purchase it. Alas, on a student's budget, I cannot afford the price!

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Encyclopedia of Bioterrorism Defense

Manufacturer: Wiley
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ASIN: 0471467170

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This groundbreaking reference marks the first time a publication has attempted to provide complete coverage in the field of bioterrorism.Â Articles review current knowledge across various disciplines within the context of bioterrorism, covering the most recent developments in areas including bioterrorism agents, biodefense infrastructure, biotechnology, preparedness, threats, threat analysis, and legislation.Â Relevant biological warfare events are included with a through analysis.

This one-of-a-kind volume:

Includes detailed coverage of such topics as:Â Biotechnology and Bioterrorism, Bioterrorist Attack--Stages & Aftermath, Detection of Agents, and Psychological & Social Sequelae
Offers a user friendly style, with biological agents covered consistently across entries
Contains over 125 articles
Provides case studies, with discussion of lessons learned
Comprehensively covers the field of bioterrorism, including related science, technology, medicine, politics, law and history

Written by an international panel of experts in the field, this landmark reference supplies essential information to a wide audience of scientists, researchers, physicians, health care professionals, policymakers, historians, journalists, and students.

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The president and founder of The Dinosaur Society teams up with the author of The Complete Dinosaur Dictionary to offer the ultimate guide for students, kids, parents, and dinosaur enthusiasts of every stripe. More than 600 species are described, along with information about appearance and behavior. 400 drawings.

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Good for it's time, but others are better.......2005-01-17

I got this book at a garage sale. Original cost was $25 which in 1993 would have made this a good value, although the release of "Jurassic Park" that same year would have exposed you to some dinosaurs for less money.

The reviewer below noticed the lack of illustrations, including my personal favorite, Ankylosaurus. The book contains many of the different types of dinosaurs and the descriptions are well researched for what was known then. In recent years, and even through the "Jurassic Park" movies, we see that new information is being uncovered, making this book ... extinct.

If you find this at a garage sale, and you really want to see all the different types of dinosaurs that some books would just ignore, then get it. There are more varieties than you'd ever known to exist (over 600). The author Donald F. Glut probably has something newer available (for a price) if you want to keep up to date.

At least it is current enough to let you know that the Brontosaurus was incorrectly named and should be called the Apatosaurus. Personally, I learned more about many different species just from playing "Jurassic Park: Operation Genesis" interactive game © 2003 Universal Interactive, Inc.

Cool reference book on every dinosaur discovered so far........1997-05-07

Combined forces of the two famous dinosaur experts Donald F. Glut and Don Lessem, resulted with the detailed listing and description of all dinosaur genera and species known at the time of the publishing (1994). The encyclopedia contains 400 original illustrations of fossils, skeleton reconstructions and life retorations. It is a pitty thourg, that all the dinosaur described in the book were not accompanied with their illustrations. Nevertheless, it is a great reference book and recommended for all ages

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some misinformatoin
Plenty to worry about here
Good for those in the field, and for the curious
Germs by Biddle
Highly Accurate and Readable Guide

A Field Guide to Germs
Wayne Biddle
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ASIN: 140003051X
Release Date: 2002-06-25

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From the title alone, you know it's going to be good. Biddle delves into anthrax and arboviruses, cholera and chlamydia, diphtheria, dengue, and dysentery, and on through the disease-ridden alphabet to Zika fever. Biddle explains in graphic detail the causes, symptoms and treatments for these germs, and it's all jolly good middle-of-the-night reading. You might become somewhat phobic if you read it from cover to cover, but no one will be more scintillating at parties.

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From the ravages of the Ebola virus in Zaire to outbreaks of pneumonic plague in India and drug-resistant TB in New York City, contagious diseases are fighting back against once-unconquerable modern medicine. Public concern about infectious disease is on the rise as newspapers trumpet the arrivals of new germs and the reemergence of old ones.

In A Field Guide to Germs, Pulitzer Prize-winning science writer Wayne Biddle brings readers face to face with nearly one hundred of the best-known (in terms of prevalence, power, historical importance, or even literary interest) of the myriad pathogens that live in and around the human population. Along with physical descriptions of the organisms and the afflictions they cause, the author provides folklore, philosophy, history, and such illustrations as nineteenth century drawings of plague-induced panic, microscopic photographs of HIV and Ebola, and wartime posters warning servicemen against syphilis and gonorrhea.

From cholera to chlamydia, TB to HIV, bubonic plague to Lyme disease, rabies to Congo-Crimean encephalitis, anthrax to Zika fever, and back to good old rhinitis (the common cold), A Field Guide to Germs is both a handy reference work to better understand today's headlines and a fascinating look at the astonishing impact of micro-organisms on social and political history.

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some misinformatoin.......2007-09-20

I've read only a few of the germ chapters described in this text and chose to read no more after encountering some blatantly incorrect information. For instance, with Rabies, the author states humans can only contract the disease if bitten by a rabid animal. Not true. Infection can be transmitted through the saliva of an infected animal or another human by contacting saliva with an open wound or mucus membrane. The author also states that humans are a dead end for the virus because we can't infect others. Absolutely not true. Visit a hospital with a rabies patient and you'll likely get a very different opinion as to the danger of the virus spreading.

Overall, the information felt unverified and dashed off. Making this a primer for some I suppose but hardly a definitive much less accurate work.

Plenty to worry about here.......2006-02-25

This is the revised and updated edition of 2002 of the book originally published in 1995. The book is a "field guide" only in a metaphorical sense. After all, most of the subject matter is invisible to the unaided eye.

There's an overview in the Introduction of the role germs have played in the life of humans. It's a gruesome story. There follow 161 pages focusing on the individual germs or germ genuses in alphabetic order beginning with adenoviruses and ending with Zika fever, a rarely encounter viral disease which Biddle includes, he writes, because "we need a Z." Unless I miss my count there are 74 entries.

There's more than a micron of whimsy in the text as Biddle, who is also the author of A Field Guide to the Invisible and other works, tries to lighten up the mostly depressing subject matter with witticisms, e.g., "Untreated colds last a week; medical attention can end them after seven days." (p. 129) Each entry is between half a page and a couple of pages in length except for a few of greater interest, like polio which runs to almost five pages and includes a black and white pic of a young Elvis Presley happily getting vaccinated. There are 54 illustrations accompanying the text, many of them of old time cartoons and posters calling attention to various plagues and epidemics. Especially noteworthy are some drawings warning young men about syphilis, gonorrhea and other venereal diseases, showing women as culprits, or as Biddle has it, "Always one of Shorty's girls, never Shorty."

The strength of the book is in how wide is Biddle's range of interest and in the fact that each pathogen is identified in some detail including its common and scientific names, whether it is a virus or a bacterium, a protozoan or something else (worms and prions, for example). How the disease is transmitted, its symptoms and its history are also noted. One can learn something about the nature of disease and how our immune system copes from reading the text, which is informal but not flippant.

A weakness is that he doesn't consistently explain how viruses, bacteria and other contagions actually work their horrors, although in some cases he does. Bacteria that produce deadly toxins, like anthrax are identified as causing injury "to cells and tissue." And he explains that the HIV enters and renders helpless our T-4 lymphocyte cells by getting their DNA to produce viruses. This is how viruses in general work: they enter our cells, take over the machinery, and after a bit burst out, a thousand or so strong, each virus now headed for another cell. It can be surmised how after a while a lot of our cells are out of commission and can no longer do their job. In the case of the common cold viruses, apparently they don't commandeer enough of our cells (I presume along the lining of the nose and throat) to really do us any harm. Most of the discomfort, again presumably, comes from the body's reaction to the invasion, the fever, the sneezing, the coughing, etc. But Biddle is short on this sort of explanation. But he is not the only one. I am still looking for that popular book on disease that explains in detail and specifically how each pathogen does its harm to our bodies. Are we eaten, cell by cell or are we poisoned, or are we doing okay until the pathogen reaches some vital organ where it does...what?

We are told, and Biddle in part confirms this, that recurring diseases like colds or the flu come round regularly when the weather is right to keep us indoors and sneezing on one another in closed quarters, thus effectively spreading their particles happily about. However, he only alludes to the possibility that we may be harboring many, many germs within our bodies that only become pathogenic when we are weakened or when their season, as it were, comes round. My point is that it may be the case that we can get the flu every year or so or a cold without ever coming into contact with anybody else. We may harbor the germs for life. In some cases they become subdued by our immune system, but then they may mutate so that our system doesn't immediately recognize them and they go wild.

A nice confusion that Biddle clears up is how sometimes we get a cold or the flu (viral infections) but end up with a bacterial infection to boot. Although he doesn't explain specifically how this happens, apparently the flu or cold weakens us in some way that allows bacteria a chance to do us harm, which is why some patients insist on getting an antibiotic prescription from their doctor even though they have a viral infection.

Biddle addresses the mutation issue, fueled by the overuse of antibiotics so that our bodies and those of our cattle and pigs become virtual laboratories for the development of mutant strains of microbes immune to very antibiotics we are using.

As a bonafide, card-carrying germaphobe, I can tell you that this book is definitely worthwhile, and will spur you to even greater efforts at avoidance. Beware if you tend to the obsessive, however, since after reading this you may never stop washing your hands, and may never again leave the house.

Good for those in the field, and for the curious.......2004-01-19

Usually, I approach texts such as this with some trepidation, because they have a tendancy of being the author's perception as well as some half-baked theory of a conspiracy.
This book is objective, clear-cut, and explains in simple terminology, the story behind our most common "bugs" and the diseases they cause.
If you are intrigued by the field of diseases, I suggest you check this one out.
Also check out "Killer Germs" (Barry & David Zimmerman) for something more in depth and historical.

Germs by Biddle.......2003-11-06

This is an excellent work which diarizes practically every
major germ imaginable. The author depicts how physicians
dressed in special garb to guard against the bubonic plague
throughout the centuries following the 1300s. The work describes
various acute respiratory diseases impacting the tonsils and
adenoids. Today, there is a lowered risk of Anthrax
infestation due to considerable advances in the medicinal arts.
Lyme disease is still a concern in the Northeastern, USA.
Approximately 15-30% of ticks are infected and 1-3% of
people bitten by ticks become infected with Lyme disease.
Cholera is a disease which manifests itself in a dirty
environment of water or food contamination. The hantavirus
is carried by mice and rats which contaminate the air by
breathing common air and spreading disease through droppings,
urine and saliva. This book could be very helpful in identifying
a complicated disease process early enough so that effective
strategies could be formulated and implemented.
This work would be beneficial to a wide constituency of readers
including medical personnel, parents, teachers, public
administrators, rangers and any public service employee.

Highly Accurate and Readable Guide.......2003-01-07

I'm a professional microbiologist (and plague expert) and find this book to be succinct, accurate, and a pleasure to read. Sounds to me like the reviewer from Brooklyn might have a competing volume to sell. I've recommended this work and its previous edition for years to my students and colleagues. It's a rare example of science writing that is both informative and fun.

An Atlas of Microbiology of the Skin (Encyclopedia of Visual Medicine Series)

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ASIN: 1850709041

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Under the distinguished editorship of Dr. Jack Lesher, this atlas-textbook comprehensively covers the microbiology of the skin. It provides an unprecedented series of superb photographs, mostly in color, printed opposite facing pages of instructive captions and clinical insights. The book covers bacteria, ectoparasites, arthropods, pinworms, fungi, and viruses. Fully referenced and indexed, this volume is an essential diagnostic and how-to manual for dermatologists, residents, general practice, and primary-care physicians. This is a book that will not sit on the shelf but will be used on a daily basis.

Encyclopedia of Microbiology (4-Volume Set)

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Encyclopedia of Microbiology (4-Volume Set)

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ASIN: 0122268008

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The First Edition of the Encyclopedia of Microbiology was hailed by leading scientists and researchers around the world as "excellent," "outstanding," and "impressive." This Second Edition will serve as an up-to-date version of this reference which has been useful to academic, industrial, and personal libraries for years. The Encyclopedia of Microbiology, Second Edition both challenges and stimulates the reader, and illustrates the importance of microbiology, a field that cannot be over emphasized in this booming biotechnology age.

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* Contains approximately 300 articles, 1000 illustrations, and 400 tables
* New design includes thematic table of contents, combined glossary of terms, and appendix
* Provides color plate sections in each volume
* 17 subject areas, including exciting coverage of microbes in extreme environments and microbes in emerging infections

An Atlas of Pediatric Infectious Diseases (Encyclopedia of Visual Medicine Series)

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An Atlas of Pediatric Infectious Diseases (Encyclopedia of Visual Medicine Series)
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Illustrated Handbook of Skin Disease in HIV Infection (The Encyclopedia of Visual Medicine Series)

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This is an especially handy, low-cost pocket guide of nearly 60 full-colour illustrations of skin disease manifestations in HIV infection. The illustrated diseases range from HIV seroconversion and persistent generalized lymphadenopathy to drug-induced skin rashes and vasculitis. Others include seborrheic dermatitis, eczema, psoriasis, fungal disease and infection, molluscum contagiosum, viral warts, herpes simplex, herpes zoster, and bacterial infections, bacillary angiomatosis, mycobacteria ulcer, syphilis, papulopruritic eruptions, and eosinophilic pustular folliculitis plus a detailed section on Kaposi's sarcoma. An excellent quick-reference handbook for practitioners and hospital staff.

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ASIN: 1842142402

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Excellent general resource.......2003-03-02

This book is a new but excellent resource for high school students. I will be able to use it in both my regular and advanced biology classes. The book tackles some very tough topics and it is the first I have seen that allows experts to translate difficult topics into something useable and valuable to high school students. The topics are also very timely for students interested in how biology relates to the news. I wish the book and the Anatomy and Physiology companion volumes were available in Spanish.

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