University of Agricultural Sciences, Bangalore

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Factors that influence interactions between foodborne pathogenic agents and consumers -- Introduction to foodborne illness: public health impact, pathogens, and consumers -- Populations at elevated risk of foodborne disease -- Globalization of the food supply and the influence of economic factors on the contamination of food with pathogens -- Trends in agricultural management and land use and the risk of foodborne disease -- Influence of food processing practices and technologies on consumer-pathogen interactions -- Exposure assessment for foodborne pathogens -- Using surveillance data to characterize and analyze risk factors for foodborne illness -- Human host factors that influence foodborne disease -- Nonspecific host defences against foodborne pathogens -- Specific immune mechanisms of defence against foodborne pathogens -- Enhanced susceptibility to foodborne infections and disease due to underlying illnesses and pregnancy -- Agent factors of pathogenicity and virulence that influence foodborne disease -- Evolutionary parasitology: the development of invasion, evasion, and survival mechanisms used by bacterial, viral, protozoan, and metazoan parasites -- Foodborne microbe mechanisms of colonization, attachment, and invasion -- Hijacking the host cell: foodborne pathogen strategies for reproduction and defense evasion -- Role of viruses in foodborne disease -- Pathogenic mechanisms of foodborne viral disease -- Pathogenic mechanisms of food- and waterborne parasitic disease -- Dose-response relationships and foodborne disease.