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Estimated Annual Numbers of Foodborne Pathogen–Associated Illnesses, Hospitalizations, and Deaths, France, 2008–2013

Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2017
Estimates of the annual numbers of foodborne illnesses and associated hospitalizations and deaths are needed to set priorities for surveillance, prevention, and control strategies. The objective of this study was to determine such estimates for 2008–2013
Dieter Van Cauteren, Yann Le Strat, Cécile Sommen, Mathias Bruyand, Mathieu Tourdjman, Nathalie Jourdan Da Silva, Elisabeth Couturier, Nelly Fournet, Henriette de Valk, Jean-Claude Desenclos   +9 more
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Acinetobacter: an underrated foodborne pathogen?

Journal of Infection in Developing Countries, 2017
The increasing prevalence of foodborne diseases observed in developing countries has been linked to a rise in the consumption of raw foods. However, unlike the classical pathogens that are commonly implicated in foodborne illnesses, members of the genus ...
Angelo Maximo Batista de Amorim, Janaína dos Santos Nascimento   +1 more
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Phage Therapy -- Everything Old Is New again

Canadian Journal of Infectious Diseases and Medical Microbiology, 2006
The study of bacterial viruses (bacteriophages or phages) proved pivotal in the nascence of the disciplines of molecular biology and microbial genetics, providing important information on the central processes of the bacterial cell (DNA replication ...
Andrew M Kropinski
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Fatal case of Clostridium perfringens enteritis and bacteraemia in South Africa

Journal of Infection in Developing Countries, 2011
Clostridium perfringens is an important anaerobic pathogen causing foodborne and non-foodborne gastrointestinal diseases in humans and animals. This pathogen is also the more common Clostridium species associated with bacteraemia.
Anthony M Smith, Juno Thomas, Pieter J.H. Mostert   +2 more
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Plants as a realized niche for Listeria monocytogenes

MicrobiologyOpen, 2021
Listeria monocytogenes is a human pathogen. It is the causative agent of listeriosis, the leading cause of bacterial‐linked foodborne mortality in Europe and elsewhere.
Hoai‐Nam Truong, Dominique Garmyn, Laurent Gal, Carine Fournier, Yann Sevellec, Sylvain Jeandroz, Pascal Piveteau   +6 more
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Efficacy of Bacteriophage Cocktail to Control E. coli O157:H7 Contamination on Baby Spinach Leaves in the Presence or Absence of Organic Load

Microorganisms, 2021
Fruits and vegetables are high in nutrients that are essential for a healthy lifestyle. However, they also harbor an extensive array of microorganisms such as bacteria, which can be beneficial, neutral, or pathogenic.
Badrinath Vengarai Jagannathan, Steven Kitchens, Paul Priyesh Vijayakumar, Stuart Price, Melissa Morgan   +4 more
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Estimating deaths from foodborne disease in the UK for 11 key pathogens

BMJ Open Gastroenterology, 2020
Objective To estimate the number of deaths from foodborne disease in the UK from 11 key pathogens.Design Four different models were developed using data from a range of sources.
Darren Holland, Laura Thomson, Nazmina Mahmoudzadeh, Abdul Khaled   +3 more
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Recent Progress on the Application of Nano-Biosensors for the Detection of Foodborne Pathogenic Bacteria [PDF]

Shipin Kexue
The contamination of foodborne pathogenic bacteria poses great threats to human health. Conventional foodborne pathogen detection methods suffer from the shortcomings of time-consuming, cumbersome, and non-real time. Hence, it is of great significance to
ZHANG Hongmei, GAO Xue, LIU Lu, JIA Mu, LI Jianrong
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Campylobacter jejuni—An Emerging Foodborne Pathogen

Emerging Infectious Diseases, 1999
Campylobacter jejuni is the most commonly reported bacterial cause of foodborne infection in the United States. Adding to the human and economic costs are chronic sequelae associated with C. jejuni infection—Guillian-Barré syndrome and reactive arthritis.
Sean F. Altekruse, Norman J. Stern, Patricia I. Fields, David L. Swerdlow   +3 more
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Biofilm through the Looking Glass: A Microbial Food Safety Perspective

Pathogens, 2022
Food-processing facilities harbor a wide diversity of microorganisms that persist and interact in multispecies biofilms, which could provide an ecological niche for pathogens to better colonize and gain tolerance against sanitization.
Sapna Chitlapilly Dass, Rong Wang
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