cifically HUS, appears to be the highest in Argentina with estimates of approximately 22 cases of HUS per 100 000 children aged 6 to 48 months. These differences could be real or could simply reflect different capacities of surveillance systems to accurately collect and report cases. EHEC occurs in all countries. The incidence seems to vary between countries. In 2004 the number of laboratory co...

1 The frequent outbreak of severe foodborne diseases warns of a potential threat that the 2 global trade networks could spread fatal pathogens. The global trade network is a 3 typical overlay network, which compounds multiple standalone trade networks 4 representing the transmission of a single product and connecting the same set of 5 countries and territories through their own set of trade int...

In 2005, OzFoodNet sites recorded 25,779 notifications of seven potentially foodborne diseases, which was 12.5 per cent higher than the mean for the previous five years. Diseases with significant increases in 2005, when compared to historical reports include: Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli, shigellosis, haemolytic uraemic syndrome, salmonellosis and campylobacteriosis. The most signific...

A trend towards the abandonment of obtaining pure culture isolates in frontline laboratories is at a crossroads with the ability of public health agencies to perform their basic mandate of foodborne disease surveillance and response. The implementation of culture-independent diagnostic tests (CIDTs) including nucleic acid and antigen-based assays for acute gastroenteritis is leaving public heal...

Brain Abscess Caused by Streptomyces Infection following Penetration Trauma: Case Report and Results of Susceptibility Analysis of 92 Isolates of Streptomyces Species Submitted to the CDC from 2000 to 2004 Charles E. Rose III,* June M. Brown, and John F. Fisher Department of Medicine, Medical College of Georgia, Augusta, Georgia, and Bacterial Zoonoses Branch, Division of Foodborne, Bacterial a...

In 2003, OzFoodNet conducted enhanced surveillance of foodborne diseases across Australia, which covered all states and territories. During 2003, there were 23,250 notifications of eight potentially foodborne diseases, of which 67 per cent and 30 per cent were due to Campylobacter and Salmonella infections respectively. The most common Salmonella serotype was Typhimurium, as in previous years. ...

Foodborne diseases Infectious, FBDs acquired from contaminated cooked, raw, processed or unprocessed food are major courses of mortality and morbidity globally due to their wide and rapid spread [1,2]. This article aims to highlight the burden and causes of FBDs, and reduction measures in developing countries. Due to them being widespread, these diseases are of public health interest worldwide,...

The epidemiology of foodborne disease is changing. New pathogens have emerged, and some have spread worldwide. Many, including Salmonella, Escherichia coli O157:H7, Campylobacter, and Yersinia enterocolitica, have reservoirs in healthy food animals, from which they spread to an increasing variety of foods. These pathogens cause millions of cases of sporadic illness and chronic complications, as...

PURPOSE We aim to fabricate a thermoplastic poly(methylmethacrylate) (PMMA) Lab-on-a-Chip device to perform continuous- flow polymerase chain reactions (PCRs) for rapid molecular detection of foodborne pathogen bacteria. METHODS A miniaturized plastic device was fabricated by utilizing PMMA substrates mediated by poly(dimethylsiloxane) interfacial coating, enabling bonding under mild conditio...