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Foodborne Diseases [PDF]

Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2008
Foodborne diseases are frequent, even though food safety has never been so high in industrialized countries. The epidemics of previous centuries, such the cholera, disappeared from our everyday public health concerns. The persistence of foodborne diseases depends largely upon poor compliance with the rules of proper food hygiene, especially with ...
Ynes R. Ortega
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Emerging Foodborne Diseases [PDF]

Emerging 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 ...
S.F. Altekruse, M.L. Cohen, D.L. Swerdlow   +2 more
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A study on Kudoa septempunctata infection from sashimi and sushi of olive flounder Paralichthys olivaceus in Busan, South Korea

Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, 2021
Kudoa septempunctata has been reported as a new parasite in aquacultured olive flounder Paralichthys olivaceus, and also as a causative agent of food poisoning in humans. This paper investigated the
Hee-soo Koo, Ji-young Park, Gyung-hye Sung, Eun-hee Park, Pyeong-tae Ku, Mi-ok Lee   +5 more
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Public Health Research Priorities for Fungal Diseases: A Multidisciplinary Approach to Save Lives

Journal 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, Jeremy A. W. Gold, Kaitlin Benedict, Karen Wu, Meghan Lyman, Alexander Jordan, Narda Medina, Shawn R. Lockhart, D. Joseph Sexton, Nancy A. Chow, Brendan R. Jackson, Anastasia P. Litvintseva, Mitsuru Toda, Tom Chiller   +13 more
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Foodborne Diseases [PDF]

, 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, Adenilma Farias, Rita de Cássia Akutsu, Raquel Braz Assunção Botelho, Wilma Araújo, IZABEL CRISTINA RODRIGUES DA SILVA   +5 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

Frontiers 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, Beth M. Tolar, Taylor Griswold, Eshaw Vidyaprakash, Kelley B. Hise, Grant M. Williams, Sung B. Im, Jessica C. Chen, Hannes Pouseele, Heather A. Carleton   +9 more
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Blastomycosis-Associated Hospitalizations, United States, 2010–2020

Journal of Fungi, 2023
Background: Blastomycosis is an environmentally acquired fungal disease that can cause severe illness, with approximately 65% of reported cases requiring hospitalization.
Kaitlin Benedict, Ian Hennessee, Jeremy A. W. Gold, Dallas J. Smith, Samantha Williams, Mitsuru Toda   +5 more
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The Effects of Vitamins and Micronutrients on Helicobacter pylori Pathogenicity, Survival, and Eradication: A Crosstalk between Micronutrients and Immune System

Journal of Immunology Research, 2022
Helicobacter pylori as a class I carcinogen is correlated with a variety of severe gastroduodenal diseases; therefore, H. pylori eradication has become a priority to prevent gastric carcinogenesis.
Ali Nabavi-Rad, Mahsa Azizi, Shaghayegh Jamshidizadeh, Amir Sadeghi, Hamid Asadzadeh Aghdaei, Abbas Yadegar, Mohammad Reza Zali   +6 more
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Healthcare providers’ knowledge and clinical practice surrounding shigellosis — DocStyles Survey, 2020

BMC 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, Laura Ford, Kayla L. Vanden Esschert, Ian D. Plumb, Naeemah Logan, Louise K. Francois Watkins, Amanda G. Garcia-Williams   +6 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

BMC 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, E. Rickamer Hoover, Bethlehem N. Besrat, Claire Burns-Lynch, Rebekah Frankson, Shantrice L. Jones, Amanda G. Garcia-Williams   +6 more
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