an outbreak of aeromonas hydrophila food poisoning in deptsang village, samdrup jongkhar, bhutan, 2016

Isolation and identification of Aeromonas hydrophila from an outbreak of haemorrhagic septicemia in snakes

Outbreak of Aeromonas hydrophila wound infections associated with mud football.

On 16 February 2002, a total of 26 people presented to the emergency department of the local hospital in the rural town of Collie in southwest Western Australia with many infected scratches and pustules distributed over their bodies. All of the patients had participated in a "mud football" competition the previous day, in which there had been ~100 participants. One patient required removal of a...

Aeromonas hydrophila

Department of Biology, University of Alabama a t Birmingham, Birmingham, AL 35294-1 170, USA Aeromonas hydrophila, a gastrointestinal pathogen of humans, was shown to exhibit a significant adaptive acid tolerance response (ATR) capable of protecting cells from severe acid at a pH of 3.5. The ATR was induced by exposure to a relatively mild pH level of 5-0 for 20 min. Adaptation required protein...

An outbreak of Clostridium welchii toxin food poisoning.

THE Public Health Laboratory Service reports (1955 and 1956) show a steadily increasing annual incidence of notified food poisoning. Clostridium welchii caused only 1 per cent of all incidents, i.e. outbreaks, family outbreaks and sporadic cases, in 1956, but was responsible for 12 per cent of the total number of outbreaks, an increase of 3 per cent on the previous year's figures. One cannot sa...

Outbreak of staphylococcal enterotoxin food poisoning.

Coagulase positive staphylococci are generally difficult to grow in foodstuffs without substantial temperature abuse and foodborne outbreaks are uncommon. The following incident resulted in the first detection of staphylococcal enterotoxin in food in a Queensland outbreak and is the first reported outbreak of staphylococcal foodborne illness in Queensland since 1997 when 42 people in a Bundaber...

Outbreak of Clostridium perfringens food poisoning.

An outbreak of diarrhoea occurred at a 647-bedded long-stay hospital from 11 to 14 June 1989. Fifty-eight elderly residents developed symptoms and there were two deaths. The organism was identified as Clostridium perfringens type A, serotype TW23. The source of the outbreak was found to be inadequately reheated minced beef served at lunchtime on 11 June. The reason why only 4 of the possible 16...