Bibliothèque de L'IMIST/CNRST

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Some practical and statistical aspects of the comparative evaluation of microbiological culture media / B. Jarvis -- Recovery of stressed microorganisms / P.J. Stephens, B.M. Mackey -- Culture media for the detection and enumeration of clostridia in food / Matthias Fischer, Sha Zhu, Ellen de Ree -- Culture media for Bacillus spp. and related genera relevant to foods / Dagmar Fritze, Rudiger Pukall -- Culture media and methods for the isolation of Listeria monocytogenes / R.R. Beumer, G.D.W. Curtis -- Culture media used in the detection and enumeration of coagulase-positive staphylococci / Peter Zangerl, Heinz Becker -- Culture media for enterocci / Gunter Klein, Gerhard Reuter -- Culture media for lactic acid bacteria / U. Schillinger, W.H. Holzapfel -- Culture media for non-sporulating gram-positive, catalase-positive food spoilage bacteria / G.A. Gardner, R.A. Holley -- Culture media for the detection and enumeration of bifidobacteria in food production / Eoin Barrett [and others].

Culture media for Leuconostoc gasicomitatum / Elina J. Vihavainen, K. Johanna Bjorkroth -- Culture media for detection and enumeration of "total" Enterobacteriaceae, coliforms and Escherichia coli from foods / M. Manafi -- Culture media for the isolation of Salmonella / K.A. Mooijman -- Culture media for the isolation of Shigella spp. / Mohammad Aminul Islam -- Culture media for the isolation of Yersinia enterocolitica from foods / Enne de Boer -- Culture media for the isolation of diarrhoeagenic Escherichia coli from foods / Annet E. Heuvelink -- Culture media for isolating Cronobacter species (Enterobacter sakazakii) / Carol Inversen, Patrick Druggan -- Culture media for the isolation and enumeration of pathogenic Vibrio species in foods and environmental samples / James D. Oliver -- Culture media for the isolation of Campylobacters, helicobacters and arcobacters / Janet E.L. Corry, H. Ibrahim Atabay -- Culture media for the isolation of Aeromonas spp. and Plesiomonas shigelloides / Ildefonso Perales -- Culture media for food spoilage bacteria of the order Pseudomonadales: Pseudomonas, Acinetobacter and Psychrobacter spp. / Patrick Druggan, Carol Iversen -- Culture media for food-associated genera in the family Flavobacteriaceae / Celia J. Hugo, P.J. Jooste -- Culture media for detecting and enumerating yeasts and moulds / Larry R. Beuchat, Tibor Deak -- Culture media for the detection and enumeration of Legionella species in water / Simon in't Veld, Harm Veenendaal -- Culture media for the isolation and enumeration of microorganisms from waters / J. Watkins, D. Sartory -- Chromogens, fluorogens, Trojan horses and their use in culture media / Patrick Druggan.

"This is the highly anticipated third edition of a book written by the Working Party on Culture Media of the International Committee on Food Microbiology and Hygiene. It is a handy reference for microbiologists wanting to know which media to use for the detection of various groups of microbes in foods and how to check the performance of the media.

The book is divided into two parts and concentrates on media for water as well as food microbes - selecting those which have been evaluated and shown to function optimally. The first part consists of a series of chapters written by various experts from all over the world, reviewing the media designed to detect the major groups of microbes important in food spoilage, food fermentations and food-borne disease. The history and rationale of the selective agents and indicator systems used, as well as the relative merits of the various media are surveyed by reference to the scientific literature. The second part contains monographs on almost 100 of the media considered most useful. Each monograph, written in the style of a pharmacopoeia, includes: a short section on the history and selective principle of the medium; a method for its preparation from basic ingredients; its appearance and physical properties, including pH; its shelf-life; instructions concerning method of inoculation, incubation and interpretation; the recommended method(s) and a list of test strains suitable for assessing the quality (productivity and selectivity) of the medium and a description of the typical appearance of the target organism"--Publisher decription.