Food Safety, Waterborne Diseases, and Public Health Microbiology Innovations
A special issue of International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (ISSN 1660-4601). This special issue belongs to the section "Global Health".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (21 March 2022) | Viewed by 11281
Special Issue Editors
Interests: antibiotic resistance and antimicrobial interventions against foodborne bacterial pathogens; ecology of planktonic cells and biofilms of foodborne, enteric, waterborne, and environmental bacteria in the landscape of climate change; foodborne disease epidemiology
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Interests: food microbiology and microbial safety of foods; ecology of foodborne pathogens; rapid diagnostics; sample preparation; study of microorganisms at the single cell level; antimicrobial resistance; microbial source tracking
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
At least 31 global hazards are associated with foodborne and waterborne diseases. The World Health Organization (WHO) estimates that around 600 million individuals experience foodborne illnesses every year. Additionally, WHO estimates that every year, 420,000 individuals lose their lives due to food-safety-related infection, intoxication, and toxicoinfection episodes, with children under the age of five accounting for around 1/3 of the mortality. An additional 2 million global deaths are associated with waterborne diseases annually. These challenges are expected to be augmented in the landscape of climate change, as elevated temperatures play a substantial role in the fate and proliferation of enteric and environmental pathogens of public health concern.
This Special Issue will publish recent original laboratory studies with sessile and planktonic microorganisms, results of risk assessment analyses, epidemiological and observational research, and critical and systematic reviews of literature. Special emphasis shall be placed on emerging, efficacious, and economically feasible technologies for prevention and elimination of nontyphoidal Salmonella enterica serovars, various serogroups of Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli, public health significant serotypes of Listeria monocytogenes, pathogenic species of Vibrio, drug-resistant S. aureus, various species of Campylobacter, pathogenic Cronobacter spp., and Norovirus. Additional topics of interest are control measures for the management of mycotoxin mitigation in processing and production, preventive measures for spread of antibiotic-resistant enteric and environmental pathogens, and effects of climate change on food safety and waterborne diseases.
Dr. Aliyar Fouladkhah
Prof. Dr. Bledar Bisha
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- Microbial food safety
- Food microbiology
- Water microbiology
- Public health microbiology
- Climate-change-induced infectious diseases
- Foodborne diseases epidemiology
- Nontyphoidal Salmonella enterica serovars
- Listeria monocytogenes
- Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli
- Pathogenic Cronobacter spp.
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