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Fundamental Food Microbiology, Third Edition - Fuad Fathir

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CHAPTER 27<br />

Opportunistic Pathogens, Parasites, and<br />

Algal Toxins<br />

CONTENTS<br />

I. Introduction ..............................................................................................406<br />

II. Opportunistic Pathogens ...........................................................................406<br />

A. Aeromonas hydrophila .....................................................................406<br />

1. Characteristics ............................................................................406<br />

2. <strong>Food</strong> Association ........................................................................ 406<br />

3. Disease-Causing Potential ..........................................................407<br />

B. Plesiomonas shigelloides .................................................................407<br />

1. Characteristics ............................................................................407<br />

2. <strong>Food</strong> Association ........................................................................407<br />

3. Disease-Causing Potential.......................................................... 407<br />

C. Non-Escherichia Coli Coliforms .....................................................408<br />

D. Toxigenic Psychrotrophic Bacillus spp. ..........................................408<br />

III. Biogenic Amines ......................................................................................409<br />

A. Histamine (Scombroid) Poisoning ...................................................409<br />

IV. Algal Toxins .............................................................................................410<br />

A. Ciguatera Poisoning .........................................................................410<br />

B. Shellfish Poisoning ...........................................................................411<br />

1. Paralytic Shellfish Poisoning .....................................................411<br />

2. Neurotoxic Shellfish Poisoning .................................................411<br />

3. Diarrhetic Shellfish Poisoning ...................................................411<br />

V. Parasites ....................................................................................................411<br />

A. Trichinosis by Trichinella spiralis ...................................................412<br />

B. Anisakiasis by Anisakis simplex ......................................................412<br />

C. Taeniasis by Taenia spp. ..................................................................412<br />

D. Toxoplasmosis by Toxoplasma gondii .............................................412<br />

E. Giardiasis by Giardia lamblia .........................................................413<br />

F. Cryptosporidiosis by Cryptosporidium parvum ..............................413

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