[afro-nets] Open Learning Web site on Enteric pathogens

["Salvatore Rubino" <rubino@uniss.it>]

Open Learning Web site on Enteric pathogens 
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Dear Friends of the Open Learning Web site on Enteric pathogens

A new lecture is available at the new web site  <http://www.oloep.org/>www.oloep.org

Prevalence and transmission of the emerging foodborne pathogen Arcobacter troughout the food chain

Houf K
Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Department of Veterinary Public Health, 
Ghent University - Belgium

Arcobacters are Gram-negative, slender curved bacteria closely related to campylobacters. At present, six species have been characterized. Arcobacter nitrofigilis and Arcobacter halophilus are the "environmental" species whereas Arcobacter butzleri, Arcobacter. cryaerophilus, Arcobacter skirrowii and Arcobacter cibarius are human and animal related. Though arcobacters have been associated with reproductive problems, mastitis and gastric ulcers in livestock, they have been more frequently isolated from clinically healthy farm animals. In humans, Arcobacter has been associated with abdominal illness and septicaemia. The routes of infection are still unclear, but include person-to-person contact and consumption of contaminated water and food of animal origin. At present, there is no unequivocal evidence that arcobacters are hazards for human health although they have been classified by the International Committee on Microbial Specification for Foods as emerging food pathogens

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Prof. Salvatore Rubino
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