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Record Nr.

UNINA9910137200003321

Autore

Nora Lia Padola

Titolo

Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli in human, cattle and foods : strategies for detection and control / / topic editors, Nora Lía Padola and Analía I. Etcheverría

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Frontiers Media SA, 2014

[Lausanne, Switzerland] : , : Frontiers Media SA, , 2014

ISBN

9782889192939

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (107 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Collana

Frontiers Research Topics

Soggetti

Escherichia coli

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Sommario/riassunto

Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli (STEC) is an important foodborne pathogen associated with both outbreaks and sporadic cases of human disease, ranging from uncomplicated diarrhoea to haemorrhagic colitis (HC) and haemolytic uraemic syndrome (HUS). STEC affects children, elderly and immuno-compromised patients. STEC is capable of producing Shiga toxin type 1 (Stx1), type 2 (Stx2) or both, encoded by stx1 and stx2 genes, respectively. These strains are likely to produce putative accessory virulence factors such as intimin (encoded by eae), an enterohaemolysin (EhxA) and an autoagglutinating protein commonly associated with eae-negative strains (Saa), both encoded by an enterohaemorrhagic plasmid. Several studies have confirmed that cattle are the principal reservoir of STEC (O157 and non-O157:H7 serotypes) and many of these serotypes have been involved in HUS and HC outbreaks in other countries. Transmission of STEC to humans occurs through the consumption of undercooked meat, vegetables and water contaminated by faeces of carriers and by person-to-person contact. Diagnostic methods have evolved to avoid selective diagnostics, currently using molecular techniques for typing and subtyping of strains. Control is still a challenge, although there are animal vaccines directed against the serotype O157:H7.



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Record Nr.

UNINA9910254785503321

Titolo

Boundaries, Extents and Circulations : Space and Spatiality in Early Modern Natural Philosophy / / edited by Koen Vermeir, Jonathan Regier

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2016

ISBN

3-319-41075-X

Edizione

[1st ed. 2016.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (XI, 273 p. 15 illus.)

Collana

Studies in History and Philosophy of Science, , 0929-6425 ; ; 41

Disciplina

111.850947

Soggetti

History

Philosophy

Philosophy and science

History of Science

History of Philosophy

Philosophy of Science

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters.

Nota di contenuto

1. Jonathan Regier and Koen Vermeir, Boundaries, Extents and Circulations, Spatiality and the Early Modern Concept of Space. An introduction -- 2. Roger Ariew, Leibniz and the Petrifying Virtue of the Place -- 3. Vincenzo de Risi, Francesco Patrizi and the New Geometry of Space -- 4. Jean Seidengart, The Inception of the Concept of Infinite Physical Space in the Time of Copernicus and Giordano Bruno -- 5. Delphine Bellis, The Perception of Spatial Depth in Kepler’s and Descartes’ Optics -- 6. Mihnea Dobre, Experimental Cartesianism and the Problem of Space -- 7. Thibaut Maus de Rolley, Putting the Devil on the Map: Demonology and Cosmography in the Renaissance -- 8. Alessandro Scafi, All Space Will Pass Away: The Spiritual, Spaceless and Incorporeal Heaven of Valentin Weigel (1533-1588) -- 9. Dana Jalobeanu, Francis Bacon’s Experimental Construction of “Space” -- 10. Luc Peterschmitt, The Circulating Structure of Space in the 17th century Chemical Tradition.

Sommario/riassunto

This volume is an important re-evaluation of space and spatiality in the late Renaissance and early modern period. History of science has



generally reduced sixteenth and seventeenth century space to a few canonical forms. This volume gives a much needed antidote. The contributing chapters examine the period’s staggering richness of spatiality: the geometrical, geographical, perceptual and elemental conceptualizations of space that abounded. The goal is to begin to reconstruct the amalgam of “spaces” which co-existed and cross-fertilized in the period’s many disciplines and visions of nature. Our volume will be a valuable resource for historians of science, philosophy and art, and for cultural and literary theorists.