Foodborne illness

The C. Botulinum species belongs to the Clostridium genus, Clostridiaceae family, the clostridiales order, the clostridia class and the Phylum Firmicutes in the Kingdom and Domain of Bacteria. (Gale) This bacteria causes four types of botulism: Foodborne botulism due to eating contaminated and spoiled foods. Wound botulism is cause by the growth in an open wound. Infant botulism is the growth of the toxin in the intestinal tract of infants and adult colonization is the growth in the intestinal…

Specific Aims: Campylobacter jejuni (c. jejuni) is a gram-negative microaerophilic bacterium. It is the leading cause of bacterial caused gastroenteritis in the world. Campylobacter jejuni infection is generally self-limiting, however it can result in more severe disease such as extra-intestinal infections. It has also been seen as a cause of acute auto-immune disorders such as Guillen-barre, Miller-Fisher syndrome and refractory arthritis.1 Antibiotic resistance can complicate treatment and…

Introduction Tuffy’s Pet Foods, a KLN Family Brand, has recently experienced issues in their operations, when the Ohio Department of Agriculture revealed the presence of Salmonella in one of their products. The manufacturer of the “super premium” pet foods, boasts they have been manufacturing pet foods for over 50 years and are dedicated to providing quality products through the enforcement of strict quality control measures. Apparently, these strict quality control measures are not quite as…

Animal products contaminated with bacteria such as Salmonella, Campylobacter, and E. coli are responsible for some of the food-borne illnesses and fatal infections that people get. The recent cases of H759 avian influenza moving from poultry to humans make many people think about the transmission and spread of zoonotic diseases. New strains of influenza that can infect humans and biotic resistant are a new concern for humans. Avian and swine influenza is caused by influenza a virus that has 2…

Introduction Escherichia coli or more commonly known as E. Coli is a gram negative, facultative anaerobic bacterium that is commonly found in the lower intestine. There are many different strains of E. Coli, with strains that are created in a laboratory setting that are used as a standard for testing other strains of e.coli.1 These special strains possess an inherent tetracycline resistance from the insertion of a “marker” 2’ upstream or downstream from a targeted gene. These tetracycline marked…

In 2007, there was a salmonella outbreak that January that sickened hundreds of people in the United States. This was something that impacted many lives and was something that was one of the biggest lawsuits for food borne illnesses. The salmonella was sourced at the Blakely, GA Peanut Corporation of America, or PCA, plant. On January 30, 2007 the Food and Drug Administration, or FDA, confirmed salmonella in the Peter Pan Peanut Butter. In approximately mid-February, the Centers for Disease…

closing of the company, and a possibility for criminal charges. The state and local health agencies detect issues to keep food safe and for identifying foodborne illness outbreaks. The health care officials such as clinical laboratories, health care providers, the suspected person that ill, and a close friend or relative report about suspected foodborne…

TOPIC: Health and Globalization of Disease Control If the movement of people, food, and manufactured goods can have such a negative impact on public health, should steps be taken to reduce these flows? What other options are there for lowering the spread of global diseases? A healthy nation thinks healthy and probably it influences the making and implementation of her policies, unfortunately, most of the African countries have deliberately allowed their defensive port of entry and domestic…

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…

canned food lacks oxygen, bacteria containing spores form that secrete toxin into it. There are seven distinct forms of botulinum toxin, types A–G. Four of these (types A, B, E and F) are the main cause human botulism, while types C, D and E cause illness in mammals such as birds and fish. This poison is one of the most dangerous substances known, when absorbed by the human intestine and carried to the nerves it may cause paralysis causing the victim to suffocate due to the paralyzes of muscles…