Enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli and other shiga toxin-producing E. coli/ edited by Vanessa Sperandio and Carolyn J. Hovde

Preface --
Chapter 1 : Overview and Historical Perspectives / James B. Kaper, Alison D. O'Brien --
Chapter 2 : Taxonomy Meets Public Health: The Case of Shiga Toxin-Producing Escherichia coli / Flemming Scheutz --
Chapter 3 : Shiga Toxin (Stx) Classification, Structure, and Function / Angela R. Melton-Celsa --
Chapter 4 : Enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli Genomics: Past, Present, and Future / Shah M. Sadiq, Tracy H. Hazen, David A. Rasko, Mark Eppinger --
Chapter 5 : Role of Shiga/Vero Toxins in Pathogenesis / Fumiko Obata, Tom Obrig --
Chapter 6 : The Locus of Enterocyte Effacement and Associated Virulence Factors of Enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli / Mark P. Stevens, Gad M. Frankel --
Chapter 7 : Enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli Adhesins / Brian D. Mcwilliams, Alfredo G. Torres --
Chapter 8 : Animal Models of Enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli Infection / Jennifer M. Ritchie --
Chapter 9 : Enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli Virulence Gene Regulation / Jay L. Mellies, Emily Lorenzen --
Chapter 10 : Shiga Toxin (Verotoxin)-Producing Escherichia coli in Japan / Jun Terajima, Sunao Iyoda, Makoto Ohnishi, Haruo Watanabe --
Chapter 11 : Animal Reservoirs of Shiga Toxin-Producing Escherichia coli / Anil K. Persad, Jeffrey T. Lejeune --
Chapter 12 : Shiga Toxin-Producing Escherichia coli in Fresh Produce: A Food Safety Dilemma / Peter Feng --
Chapter 13 : Public Health Microbiology of Shiga Toxin-Producing Escherichia coli / Alfredo Caprioli, Gaia Scavia, Stefano Morabito --
Chapter 14 : Detection of Shiga Toxin-Producing Escherichia coli from Nonhuman Sources and Strain Typing / Lothar Beutin, Patrick Fach --
Chapter 15 : Shiga Toxin/Verocytotoxin-Producing Escherichia coli Infections: Practical Clinical Perspectives / T. Keefe Davis, Nicole C.A.J. van De Kar, Phillip I. Tarr --
Chapter 16 : The Inflammatory Response during Enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli Infection / Jaclyn S. Pearson, Elizabeth L. Hartland --
Chapter 17 : New Therapeutic Developments against Shiga Toxin-Producing Escherichia coli / Angela R. Melton-Celsa, Alison D. O'Brien --
Chapter 18 : Risk Factors for Shiga Toxin-Producing Escherichia coli-Associated Human Diseases / Marta Rivas, Isabel Chinen, Elizabeth Miliwebsky, Marcelo Masana --
Chapter 19 : Enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli Pathogenesis and the Host Response / Diana Karpman, Anne-lie Ståhl --
Chapter 20 : The Interplay between the Microbiota and Enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli / Reed Pifer, Vanessa Sperandio --
Chapter 21 : "Preharvest" Food Safety for Escherichia coli O157 and Other Pathogenic Shiga Toxin-Producing Strains / Thomas E. Besser, Carrie E. Schmidt, Devendra H. Shah, Smriti Shringi --
Chapter 22 : Peri- and Postharvest Factors in the Control of Shiga Toxin-Producing Escherichia coli in Beef / Rodney A. Moxley, Gary R. Acuff --
Chapter 23 : Veterinary Public Health Approach to Managing Pathogenic Verocytotoxigenic Escherichia coli in the Agri-Food Chain / Geraldine Duffy, Evonne McCabe --
Chapter 24 : Clinical Studies of Escherichia coli O157:H7 Conjugate Vaccines in Adults and Young Children / Shousun Chen Szu, Amina Ahmed --
Chapter 25 : Vaccination of Cattle against Escherichia coli O157:H7 / David R. Smith --
Chapter 26 : Escherichia coli O104:H4 Pathogenesis: An Enteroaggregative E. coli/Shiga Toxin-Producing E. coli Explosive Cocktail of High Virulence / Fernando Navarro-Garcia --
Chapter 27 : The Way Forward / Vanessa Sperandio --
Index --
About the Editors.