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The Foodborne Disease Handbook, Second Edition thoroughly describes, in up-to-date detail, the bacterial, viral, parasitic, and fungal pathogens and toxicants from plants, animals, and other environmental sources in food and drinking water that cause disease—providing traditional and new methods of treatment, cure, and prevention of foodborne infections and illnesses.

Each volume—written by leading authorities—presents the history, biology, chemistry, disease outbreaks, treatment, and recent research on the full spectrum of foodborne diseases, as well as a complete listing of poison centers in the United States.

Volume 3
Plant Toxicants

Plant Toxicants contains new chapters on

• Poison center management of exposures to plant and mushroom toxins
• Medical management of plant poisoning
• Prevention and management of plant toxicants in livestock
• Claviceps
• Mushroom biology, epidemiology, poisoning, and medical management
• Fungi in folk medicine

Contents

1. Poison Centers
   U.S. Poison Centers for Exposures to Plant and Mushroom Toxins

2. Selected Plant Toxicants
   Toxicology of Naturally Occurring Chemicals in Food
   Poisonous Higher Plants
   Alkaloids
   Antinutritional Factors Related to Proteins and Amino Acids
   Glycosides
   Analytical Methodology for Plant Toxicants
   Medical Management and Plant Poisoning
   Plant Toxicants and Livestock: Prevention and Management

3. Fungal Toxicants
   Aspergillus
   Claviceps and Related Fungi
   Fusarium
   Penicillium
   Foodborne Disease and Mycotoxin Epidemiology
   Mycotoxicoses: The Effects of Interactions with Mycotoxins
   Analytical Methodology for Mycotoxins
   Mycotoxin Analysis: Immunological Techniques
   Mushroom Biology: General Identification Features
   Identification of Mushroom Poisoning (Mycetismus), Epidemiology, and Medical Management
   Fungi in Folk Medicine and Society

Index

Volume 1 Bacterial Pathogens

Volume 2 Viruses Parasites Pathogens HACCP

Volume 3 Plant Toxicants

Volume 4 Seafood and Environmental Toxins

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