Escherichia coli O157:H7

The contamination of food is an issue that can have deadly repercussions at any time to any person. The United States is not the only country that is impacted, contamination happens all over the globe. Whether caused chemically, physically, or through microorganism origin, reverberation of any type of poisoning is intensely dangerous. Though most people who are directly affected by contamination are able to recover, great deals of others are susceptible to more long term symptoms which may very…

Joshua Yran P. Professor Cynthia Solem English 1A 05 December 2014 How E. Coli Can Make Us Die A 4-year-old Oregon girl has died from medical complications possibly resulting from an E. coli infection contracted sometime just before Labor Day weekend, according to the girl’s uncle, who spoke with Food Safety News. Serena Profitt of Otis, OR, died Monday at Doernbecher Children’s Hospital in Portland. Her symptoms of E. coli infection first appeared around Aug. 29 with bouts of diarrhea, said…

Unknown Organism Report I have identified my Unknown Organism #1 as Escherichia coli, or E. coli. My Unknown Organism is an anaerobic gram-negative, unicellular eubacteria. It belongs to the genus Escherichia, which is named after Theodor Escherich, a German pediatrician. E. coli is usually found in the colon of mammals, explaining the name “coli” meaning from the colon. It’s classified in the order of enterobacteriales, and the family of enterobacteriaceae. It is the most abundant bacteria in…

Classification Escherichia coli is a bacterium that is mostly found in humans and other animals. It is a unicellular micro-organism, making its Domain and Kingdom Bacteria. E. coli’s Phylum is Proteobacteria because it is a gram-negative bacterium. It is also in the Phylum Proteobacteria because of the lipopolysaccharides that protect the cell membrane. E. coli is a facultative anaerobic G- bacterium, making its Class Gamma Proteobacteria. Because of its rod-shape, E. coli’s Order is…

types of foodborne pathogens. Salmonella is a bacteria which comes from meat, poultry and eggs. Salmonella causes nausea, abdominal cramps, diarrhea, and vomiting that can last two to seven days. E. Coli comes from contaminated water, raw ground beef and dairy products that haven't been pasteurized. E. Coli causes severe abdominal cramps…

Campylobacteriosis in the USA It takes fewer than 500 Campylobacter organisms to infect a person. Foodborne illnesses affects one sixth of the US population, meanwhile Campylobacteriosis affects a smaller scale of people. This disease is typically the very common among the foodborne illnesses. Campylobacteriosis is a foodborne illness that is easily contracted, which leads to big outbreaks, but it is often times easily preventable. Nationally Campylobacteriosis has strength in numbers. It is…

The morning of November 9th, 2016, citizens of the United States awoke to learn that Donald Trump would be the next President of the United States. Some cried, some cheered, as for me, I felt numb as I sat looking at my phone in disbelief. As I reflected on the past few months, many thoughts rattled around my head and disappeared, but one message remained. Donald Trump didn’t win the election because he knows politics and how to lead the most powerful nation on planet earth, he won the election…

Clostridium perfringens is typically found in soil and if this is eaten or coming in contact with the animal it can cause variety of diseases, especially in domestic animals. These diseases include different enteric syndromes such as bovine and ovine enterotoxemia, fowl necrotic enteritis, and lamb dysentery. Strains of most toxin types like alpha and beta toxin have been involved in necrotic enteritis beta toxin is caused by type-C strains. The pulpy kidney disease is caused by type-D strains…

coli infection. The seven people who have died from drinking the E. coli polluted water might have been cured if the Walkerton Public Utilities Commission had admitted that the water has been polluted sooner. The Walkerton Public Utilities Commission found out the water supply was contaminated…

to several cities, deathly illnesses, and the gap between the rich and the poor; his purpose is to convince people to make the right decisions on their own (276). In chapter nine, Schlosser illustrates how some of the deadly diseases such as E. coli 0157:H7, foodborne pathogens, microbes, and Salmonella are spread primarily from a percentage of fecal material that is found within meat (197). He explains how this has been caused by company inspectors that were allowing the shipment of beef…