SOIL AND WATER SCIENCES VIDEO TOPICS: FOOD SAFETY
These videos explore microbiological investigation of food- and water-borne pathogens, including epidemiological, immunological, culture-based and nucleic-acid based tools for investigating outbreaks.
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Using Crop Production Practices and Weather Conditions to Improve Microbiological Safety in Tomatoes
Dr. Max Teplitski discusses factors that can reduce sources of infection in the tomato production chain, including levels of irrigation and fertilization, weather conditions, and cultivar selection.
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Impact of Tomato Varieties and Maturity State on Susceptibility of Tomatoes to Salmonella
Dr. Max Teplitski describes research on tomato varieties and maturity state as factors in Salmonella proliferation, showing that varieties with delayed ripening traits are more resistant to the pathogen.
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Outbreak Investigation: Epidemiological Investigation
In this series, Dr. Max Teplitski describes the steps involved in an outbreak investigation. In this video he explains how to detect an outbreak of a food- or water-borne illness and how to go about identifying its source.
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Investigación de un Brote: Investigación Epidemiológica
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Outbreak Investigation: Culture Based Methods for Pathogen Detection
Dr. Max Teplitski describes why and how to culture the pathogen responsible for an outbreak based on hypotheses developed from epidemiological surveys and patient symptoms and demonstrates laboratory techniques of culture-based analyses.
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Investigación de un Brote: Detección de Patógenos Usando Métodos Basados en Cultivo
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Outbreak Investigation, Nucleic Acid Based Methods for the Detection of Pathogens
Dr. Max Teplitski describes nucleic acid-based testing as one method for pathogen detection, including avialable extraction kits and PCR procedures.
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Investigación de un Brote: Métodos Basados en Ácidos Nucléicos para la Detección de los Patógenos
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Outbreak Investigation, Immunological Tools for Outbreak Investigations
Dr. Max Teplitski reviews direct and indirect immunological tests for identifying pathogens and determining immunological response.
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Investigación de un Brote: Herramientas Inmunológicas para Investigaciones de Brotes
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Outbreak Investigation, Source Tracking and Pathogen Fingerprinting
Dr. Max Teplitski describes what is typically the last step in an outbreak investigation, source tracking and pathogen fingerprinting to establishing that the strains of the pathogen isolated from the source and the patient are the same.