Viruses in Foods

Cases of viral foodborne outbreaks are on the rise in part due to the increases in population, scarcity of clean water, and changes in eating habits. Outbreaks attributed to toxic, fungal, parasitic, and bacterial agents are very well known and characteri

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FOOD MICROBIOLOGY AND FOOD SAFETY SERIES Food Microbiology and Food Safety publishes valuable, practical, and timely resources for professionals and researchers working on microbiological topics associated with foods, as well as food safety issues and problems. Series Editor Michael P. Doyle, Regents Professor and Director of the Center for Food Safety, University of Georgia, Griffin, GA, USA Editorial Board Francis F. Busta, Director—National Center for Food Protection and Defense, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA Bruce R. Cords, Vice President, Environment, Food Safety & Public Health, Ecolab Inc., St. Paul, MN, USA Catherine W. Donnelly, Professor of Nutrition and Food Science, University of Vermont, Burlington, VT, USA Paul A. Hall, Senior Director Microbiology & Food Safety, Kraft Foods North America, Glenview, IL, USA Ailsa D. Hocking, Chief Research Scientist, CSIRO—Food Science Australia, North Ryde, Australia Thomas J. Montville, Professor of Food Microbiology, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, USA R. Bruce Tompkin, Formerly Vice President-Product Safety, ConAgra Refrigerated Prepared Foods, Downers Grove, IL, USA Titles PCR Methods in Foods, John Maurer (Ed.) (2006) Viruses in Foods, Sagar M. Goyal (Ed.) (2006) Foodborne Parasites, Ynes R. Ortega (Ed.) (2006)

VIRUSES IN FOODS

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Sagar M. Goyal University of Minnesota St. Paul, Minnesota, USA

Sagar M. Goyal Department of Veterinary Population Medicine 1333 Gortner Avenue University of Minnesota St Paul, MN 55108

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To my mother

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Contributors F. Xavier Abad, Enteric Virus Laboratory, Department of Microbiology, University of Barcelona, 08028 Barcelona, Spain Robert L. Atmar, Departments of Medicine and Molecular Virology and Microbiology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas 77030 Sabah Bidawid, Microbiology Research Division, Bureau of Microbial Hazards, Health Canada, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada K1A 0L2 Albert Bosch, Enteric Virus Laboratory, Department of Microbiology, University of Barcelona, 08028 Barcelona, Spain Javier Buesa, Department of