Salmonella is a foodborne pathogen generally associated with mild to moderate self-limiting gastroenteritis. In the United States the incidence of salmonellosis (16.37 cases per 100,000 population/ year) ranked highest among the pathogens tracked by FoodNet in 2012 (CDC, 2014). Furthermore, invasive infections accounted for 5% of the reported salmonellosis cases during 1996-2006 (Jones 2008). W...

Lin Thorstensen Brandal, Hege Smith Tunsjø, Trond Egil Ranheim, Inger Løbersli, Heidi Lange, Astrid Louise Wester Norwegian Institute of Public Health, Division of Infectious Disease Control, Department of Foodborne Infections, Oslo, Norway; Akershus University Hospital, Gene Technology Section, Department of Multidisciplinary Laboratory Medicine and Medical Biochemistry, Lørenskog, Norway; Ake...

Brain Abscess Caused by Streptomyces Infection following Penetration Trauma: Case Report and Results of Susceptibility Analysis of 92 Isolates of Streptomyces Species Submitted to the CDC from 2000 to 2004 Charles E. Rose III,* June M. Brown, and John F. Fisher Department of Medicine, Medical College of Georgia, Augusta, Georgia, and Bacterial Zoonoses Branch, Division of Foodborne, Bacterial a...

BACKGROUND Older adults, pregnant women, and persons with immunocompromising conditions are at higher risk than others for invasive Listeria monocytogenes infection (listeriosis), a rare and preventable foodborne illness that can cause bacteremia, meningitis, fetal loss, and death. METHODS This report summarizes data on 2009-2011 listeriosis cases and outbreaks reported to U.S. surveillance s...

Introduction....................................................................................................................................2 Clostridium difficile — Biology and Pathogenesis.........................................................................2 Biology............................................................................................................................

The epidemiology of foodborne disease is changing. New pathogens have emerged, and some have spread worldwide. Many, including Salmonella, Escherichia coli O157:H7, Campylobacter, and Yersinia enterocolitica, have reservoirs in healthy food animals, from which they spread to an increasing variety of foods. These pathogens cause millions of cases of sporadic illness and chronic complications, as...

Vegetables are an important source of nutrients, but they can host a large microbial population, particularly bacteria. Foodborne pathogens can contaminate raw vegetables at any stage of their production process with a potential for human infection. Appropriate washing can mitigate the risk of foodborne illness consequent to vegetable consumption by reducing pathogen levels, but few data are av...

In 2008, acute hepatitis E infection was confirmed in 4 passengers returning to the United Kingdom after a world cruise. Epidemiologic investigation showed that of 789 persons who provided blood samples, 195 (25%) were seropositive, 33 (4%) had immunoglobulin [Ig] M levels consistent with recent acute infection (11 of these persons were symptomatic), and 162 (21%) had IgG only, consistent with ...

The control of foodborne diseases from an animal source has become an important part of public health policy. Since the agents that cause these diseases originate in animals, Veterinary Services, as well as Public Health Services, must be involved in their control. Control programmes should be established either through cooperation between the two Services or by the consolidation of all those i...

OBJECTIVE Ankaferd hemostat (Ankaferd Blood Stopper®, ABS)-induced pharmacological modulation of essential erythroid proteins can cause vital erythroid aggregation via acting on fibrinogen gamma. Topical endoscopic ABS application is effective in the controlling of gastrointestinal (GI) system hemorrhages and/or infected GI wounds. Escherichia coli O157:H7, the predominant serotype of enterohem...