Course Resources
Below you can find a list of all online resources included in the Food Microbiology Fundamentals course.
Module List
Module 1 – Section 1
- Microbiology Society | What is Microbiology
- PNAS | The Biomass Distribution on Earth
- US DOE | DOE Explains Microbiology
- Wiley | How Leeuwenhoek Saw Life
- Royal Society | The Unseen World: Reflections on Leeuwenhoek (1677) ‘Concerning Little Animals’
- History | How Canned Food Revolutionized The Way We Eat
- Encyclopedia.com | Nicholas Appert
- Encyclopedia Britannica | Louis Pasteur
- Institut Pasteur | Louis Pasteur: A Universal Legacy
- US NSF | Seven Degrees from One Trillion Species of Microbes
Module 1 – Section 2
Module 1 – Section 3
- CDC | Mold, Testing, and Remediation
- National Cancer Institute | Aflatoxins
- USDA | Molds on Food
- US NSF | Seven Degrees from One Trillion Species of Microbes
- Oxford Academic | Budding Yeast for Budding Geneticists
Module 1 – Section 4
- National Library of Medicine | Structure and Classification of Viruses
- National Library of Medicine | Protozoa: Structure, Classification, Growth, and Development
- National Library of Medicine | Helminths: Structure, Classification, Growth, and Development
- US NSF | Seven Degrees from One Trillion Species of Microbes
- CDC | Estimates: Burden of Foodborne Illness in the United States
- CDC | Emerging Infectious Diseases
- CDC | Symptoms of Food Poisoning
- CDC | About the National Outbreak Reporting System
- CDC | 2015 Salmonella Outbreak Linked to Imported Cucumbers
- CDC | 2016 Multistate Outbreak of Hepatitis A Linked to Frozen Strawberries
- CDC | Salmonella Outbreak Linked to Cantaloupes, November 2023
- FDA | 2022 Food Code
- FDA | Retail Food Protection: Employee Health and Personal Hygiene Handbook
- FDA | Bad Bug Book, 2nd Edition
- FDA | What You Need to Know About Foodborne Illnesses
- FDA | November 2023 Outbreak Investigation of Salmonella in Cantaloupes
- USDA | Parasites and Foodborne Illness
- Food Processing | Remembering the Chi-Chi's Hepatitis A Outbreak of 2003
- Nationwide | Case Study: 2011 Listeria Outbreak
- National Library of Medicine | Spinach-Associated Escherichia coli O157:H7 Outbreak, Utah and New Mexico, 2006
- Alabama A&M and Auburn Universities | Food Recalls and Foodborne Outbreaks: What’s the Difference?
- SciELO Brazil | An Overview of Mycotoxins, Their Pathogenic Effects, Foods Where They are Found and Their Diagnostic Biomarkers
Module 4 – Section 1
- Microbiology Society | What is Microbiology?
- US DOE | DOE Explains... Microbiology
- FDA | Food Code 2022
- FDA | Bad Bug Book 2nd Edition
- FDA | What You Need to Know About Foodborne Illness
- CDC | Food Safety Basics
- CDC | About Salmonella Infection
- CDC | Symptoms of Salmonella Infection
- CDC | How Salmonella Infections Happen
- CDC | About Shigella Infection
- CDC | Signs and Symptoms of Shigella Infection
- CDC | How Shigella Spreads
- CDC | Kinds of E. coli
- CDC | Symptoms of E. coli Infection
- CDC | Foodborne Botulism in the United States, 1990–2000
- USDA FSIS | Foodborne Illness and Disease
- USDA FSIS | Preventing Foodborne Illness: Shigellosis
- National Library of Medicine | Enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli
- Taylor & Francis Online | Shiga Toxin-producing Escherichia coli
- University of Florida | Preventing Foodborne Illness: Bacillus cereus
- Center for Food Security & Public Health | Botulism
- Government of Canada | Listeria monocytogenes
Module 4 – Section 2
- US National Science Foundation | Seven Degrees from One Trillion Species of Microbes
- FDA | Bad Bug Book 2nd Edition
- National Library of Medicine | Norovirus
- Cleveland Clinic | Norovirus Germs Can Live on Surfaces for up to Two Weeks
- Mayo Clinic | Norovirus Infection
- CDC | Hepatitis A
- CDC | Rotavirus
- CDC | About Rotavirus
- WHO | Hepatitis E
Module 4 – Section 3
- US National Science Foundation | Seven Degrees from One Trillion Species of Microbes
- FDA | Bad Bug Book 2nd Edition
- CDC | What Causes Parasitic Diseases
- CDC | About Toxoplasmosis
- CDC | About Giardia Infection
- CDC | Clinical Overview of Trichinellosis
- CDC | Trichinellosis
- CDC | About Trichinellosis
- CDC | Amebiasis
- National Library of Medicine | Foodborne Pathogens
- National Library of Medicine | Giardiasis
- National Library of Medicine | Entamoeba histolytica Infection
- Mayo Clinic | Toxoplasmosis
- Government of Canada | Giardia lamblia
- USDA | Absence of Trichinella Infection in Commercial Pigs
Module 4 – Section 4
- National Library of Medicine | Invasive Fungal Infections Acquired from Contaminated Food or Nutritional Supplements
- National Library of Medicine | Toxicity, Mitigation, and Chemical Analysis of Aflatoxins and Other Toxic Metabolites Produced by Aspergillus
- National Library of Medicine | T-2 Toxin—The Most Toxic Trichothecene Mycotoxin: Metabolism, Toxicity, and Decontamination Strategies
- FDA | Bad Bug Book 2nd Edition
- FDA | Mycotoxins
- USDA | Molds on Food: Are They Dangerous?
- Taylor & Francis | Discovery of Aflatoxins and Significant Historical Features
- National Cancer Institute | Aflatoxins
- University of Missouri | Aflatoxins in Corn
- Penn State Extension | From Aflatoxin to Zearalenone: Key Mycotoxins You Should Know – Fumonisins
- WHO | Mycotoxins
Module 5 – Section 1
Module 5 – Section 2
- FDA | Bad Bug Book, 2nd Edition
- FDA | Bacteriological Analytical Manual (BAM)
- University of Florida Extension | Preventing Foodborne Illness: Bacillus cereus
- IFPA | Microbiological Testing of Fresh Produce
- National Library of Medicine | The Changing Face of the Family Enterobacteriaceae
- Food Safety Magazine | Microbial Detection – Taking It to the Limits