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Foodborne Diseases: Prevalence of Foodborne Diseases in Europe

open access: green, 2014
Official estimates of the prevalence of foodborne disease are highly biased, failing to account for underdiagnosis and underreporting of laboratory-confirmed clinical disease in people. To overcome the biases inherent in routine surveillance there has been a burgeoning in methods used to assess the prevalence of foodborne disease in Europe.
S. O’Brien
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Emerging Foodborne Diseases [PDF]

open access: yesEmerging Infectious Diseases, 1997
The epidemiology of foodborne diseases is rapidly changing. Recently described pathogens, such as Escherichia coli O157:H7 and the epidemic strain of Salmonella serotype Typhimurium Definitive Type 104 (which is resistant to at least five antimicrobial drugs), have become important public health problems.
S.F. Altekruse   +2 more
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Evaluation of whole and core genome multilocus sequence typing allele schemes for Salmonella enterica outbreak detection in a national surveillance network, PulseNet USA

open access: yesFrontiers in Microbiology, 2023
Salmonella enterica is a leading cause of bacterial foodborne and zoonotic illnesses in the United States. For this study, we applied four different whole genome sequencing (WGS)-based subtyping methods: high quality single-nucleotide polymorphism (hqSNP)
Molly M. Leeper   +9 more
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Foodborne Diseases [PDF]

open access: yes, 2020
Foodborne diseases (FBDs) comprise a broad spectrum of illnesses that result from the ingestion of contaminated foodstuffs or water. FBDs can occur at any stage, from production to food consumption, and contamination may be the result of environmental contamination, such as pollution of water, soil, or air [1].
Renata Zandonadi   +5 more
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Healthcare providers’ knowledge and clinical practice surrounding shigellosis — DocStyles Survey, 2020

open access: yesBMC Primary Care, 2023
Background Shigellosis is an acute diarrheal disease transmitted through contaminated food, water, objects, poor hand hygiene, or sexual activity. Healthcare providers (HCP) may not be aware of the multiple routes of Shigella transmission, populations at
Julia C. Haston   +6 more
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Public Health Research Priorities for Fungal Diseases: A Multidisciplinary Approach to Save Lives

open access: yesJournal of Fungi, 2023
Fungal infections can cause severe disease and death and impose a substantial economic burden on healthcare systems. Public health research requires a multidisciplinary approach and is essential to help save lives and prevent disability from fungal ...
Dallas J. Smith   +13 more
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Application of the Capability, Opportunity, Motivation and Behavior (COM-B) model to identify predictors of two self-reported hand hygiene behaviors (handwashing and hand sanitizer use) to prevent COVID-19 infection among U.S. adults, Fall 2020

open access: yesBMC Public Health, 2022
Background Handwashing with soap and water is an important way to prevent transmission of viruses and bacteria and worldwide it is estimated handwashing can prevent 1 in 5 viral respiratory infections.
Laura G. Brown   +6 more
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Investigation and tracing of the mushroom poisoning caused death case by Russula subnigricans in Jiangxi Province

open access: yesZhongguo shipin weisheng zazhi, 2023
ObjectiveThis study aimed to provide a reference for preventing the occurrence of events similar to the mushroom poisoning case by Russula subnigricans that caused the death of individuals in Jiangxi Province in September 2020 by investigation and ...
LIU Yang   +5 more
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