Experiments on Staphylococcus food poisoning

Food Poisoning and Staphylococcus aureus Enterotoxins

Staphylococcus aureus produces a wide variety of toxins including staphylococcal enterotoxins (SEs; SEA to SEE, SEG to SEI, SER to SET) with demonstrated emetic activity, and staphylococcal-like (SEl) proteins, which are not emetic in a primate model (SElL and SElQ) or have yet to be tested (SElJ, SElK, SElM to SElP, SElU, SElU2 and SElV). SEs and SEls have been traditionally subdivided into cl...

Food poisoning by Staphylococcus aureus at a university festival.

Miyoko Kitamoto, Kazunori Kito, Yoko Niimi, Satoko Shoda, Ai Takamura, Toshio Hiramatsu, Tomi Akashi, Yukari Yokoi, Hirokazu Hirano, Misato Hosokawa, Akemi Yamamoto, Norio Agata, and Nobuyuki Hamajima* Nagoya Chikusa Health Center, Nagoya 464-0841; Nagoya Showa Health Center, Nagoya 466-0027; Nagoya City Public Health Research Institute, Nagoya 467-8615; and Department of Preventive Medicine/Bi...

Food poisoning caused by mannitol nonfermenting Staphylococcus aureus: case report.

On August 4, 2005, 20 people who participated in the closing ceremonies of a community festival experienced nausea, vomiting, diarrhea and abdominal pain. The community where the festival took place was under the jurisdiction of the Aizu Health Center of Fukushima Prefecture. The foods that all of these patients had consumed were rice balls prepared by caterer A. Another 8 people, who did not p...

Food Poisoning

Food Poisoning

In this, the third edition of his well-known work, Dr. Dack has made a thorough revision and incorporated the newer knowledge of a subject which affects each of us at one time or another. The first two chapters on chemical poisoning and poisonings due to substances found in plants, fish, and shellfish contain useful tables of specific agents, incubation periods, symptoms, and foods involved. Bo...