Extraction and concentration of foodborne pathogenic bacteria by lectin magnetic separation; Immunomagnetic separation tecniques for the detection of pathogenic bacteria in foods; Rapid separation and detection of food-spoilage yeasts and moulds by means of lectins; Separation of Salmonella from foods with magnetic antibody-based biosorbents; Ultrasonic standing waves: microbiological applications; Detection and enumeration of viable bacteria by flow cytometry; Industrial application of flow cytometry for the rapid detection of microorganisms; New techniques for the detection of protozoan parasites in water; Indirect impedance for microbial screening in the food and beverage industries; Monoclonal antibody-based ELISAS; Specific and rapid detection of foodborne bacteria with rRNA sequences and the polymerase chain reaction; Detection of toxigenic microorganisms in foods by PCR; Combined subtraction hybridisation and PCR amplification for generating high specificity bacterial DNA probes; Microbial detection and two-dimensional preservative mapping by lux-based bioluminescence; Diarrhetic shellfish poisoning toxins; Tissue culture assay for paralytic shellfish poisoning toxins; Multilocus enzyme electrophoresis; Epidemiological typing of bacterial foodborne pathogens by pyrolysis mass spectroscopy; Restriction fragment length polymorphism (RFLP) analysis for epidemiological typing of Listeria monocytogenes; Pulsed-field gel electrophoresis for the analysis of bacterial populations; Ribotyping and arbitrary primer PCR-fingerprinting of Campylobacters; Epidemiological typing of bacterial isolates by random amplification of polymorphic DNA