At the end of 2009, six food poisoning outbreaks caused by staphylococci were reported in France. Soft cheese made from unpasteurized milk was found to be the common source of the outbreaks. Staphylococcal enterotoxin type E was identified and quantified in the cheese using both official and confirmatory methods of the European Union Reference Laboratory (EU-RL). To our knowledge, this is the f...

To the Editor, The Indian medical uazette. Sir,?In connection with Dr. Tomb's article on this subject on p. 494 of your issue for September, 1930, when 1 was in Calcutta in 1922-23 for the D. T. M(Bengal) course, there was an instance when several nurses of the Medical College group of hospitals were suddenly taken ill with food-poisoning; the infection subsequently being traced to an infected ...

Staphylococcal food poisoning and botulism are caused by the ingestion of food containing exotoxins. Outbreaks of both are still a problem in many countries. This paper attempts to summarize information relating to these illnesses, together with advice on how their incidence may be reduced, or better still prevented. Introduction It is an unfortunate fact that each year a large number of people...

Deibel, R. H. (American Meat Institute Foundation, Chicago, Ill.), and J. H. Silliker. Food-poisoning potential of the enterococci. J. Bacteriol. 85:827-832. 1963.-A total of 23 enterococcus strains were fed to two and sometimes three human volunteers in an effort to elicit food-poisoning symptoms. Each culture was consumed after it was grown in whole sterile milk or on the surface of commercia...

THE report of the Medical Research Council for the year 1951-2 records that one of the most recent additions to the list of recognized causative organisms of food-poisoning is a heat-resistant variant of Cl. welchii. The present paper describes an outbreak of food-poisoning in an army camp in which there is evidence to presume that Cl. welchii was responsible. In a comprehensive study of clostr...