Emerging global food pathogens and its public health implication: A review.

Food-borne Pathogens and Public Health

Emerging zoonoses and pathogens of public health significance--an overview.

Emerging zoonotic diseases have assumed increasing importance in public and animal health, as the last few years have seen a steady stream of new diseases, each emerging from an unsuspected quarter and causing severe problems for animals and humans. The reasons for disease emergence are multiple, but there are two main factors--expansion of the human population and globalisation of trade. Curre...

Food and Its Relation to Public Health *

The human embryo is provided with the predigested food of the mother by means of the fetal circulation. After birth provision has been made for another highly nutritious and readily available source of food to the infant through the mammary gland of the mother. Normal infants under the usual conditions survive this period fairly well. Most of the trouble from food comes after the infant has bee...

Cholera, Migration, and Global Health – A Critical Review

Cholera is an acute diarrheal infection caused by the ingestion of food or water contaminated with the bacterium Vibrio cholerae. The causative agent of this disease was originally described by Filippo Pacini in 1854, and afterwards further analyzed by Robert Koch in 1884. It is estimated that each year there are 1.3 million to 4 million cases of cholera, and 21 000 to 143 000 deaths worldwide ...

Emerging food pathogens and bacterial toxins.

Many different foodborne diseases have been described. For example, Shigella bacteria, hepatitis A virus and Norwalk virus were shown as a unwashed hands microorganisms, but pathogen Campylobacter and Escherichia coli were named as raw and undercooked meat and poultry or raw milk and untreated water born bacteria. However, two of them: Listeria monocytogenes and Yersinia enterocolitica are know...