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    bacteria, viruses, protozoa, yeast and fungi. Bacterial gastroenteritis can be caused by ingestion of pathogens or their toxins. The most frequently isolated pathogens in gastroenteritis are Campylobacter jejuni, Staphylococcus, E. coli, Yersinia, Salmonella, and Shigella etc (Vorvick LJ et al. 2011). Bacterial gastroenteritis can occur to a person or a group of people that all ate the same contaminated foods. Often this kind of outbreaks occurs after eating at restaurants, large social functions,

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    dairy products, processed food and vegetables have been associated with recalls. In addition, the aliments should be free from pathogens because they may cause diseases, and some can lead to death. Bacteria such as E. coli, Listeria, Norovirus, Salmonella, Staphylococcus and Clostridium are cited as the most dangerous food pathogens able to cause significant harm to human health or even hospitalization (Thomas et al., 2015; Wang & Salazar, 2016; Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2017).

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    underestimated due to an inadequate surveillance system. Though this was partially a result of basic failures of the surveillance system (such as a lack of timely reporting and a lack of laboratory confirmation or serotyping), it was also due to a lack of economic interest. In the 1990s, increases in tourism (driven by cruise ship lines, etc.) stimulated interest in identifying and preventing outbreaks, which could be bad publicity and thus economically devastating. Likewise, although Ebola hemorrhagic

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    the bacteria, virus, or parasite. The foodborne illness I choose was Salmonella. Salmonella is a bacteria that causes an infection known as Salmonellosis. A person that is infected with Salmonella gets diarrhea, fever, and abdominal cramps 12 to 72 hours after being infected. Salmonella usually last four to seven days and most people recover without treatment. People with severe diarrhea must be hospitalized. The Salmonella can spread in from the intestines to the bloodstream and other parts of

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    4 of which from Nevada. All of those patients were hospitalized, and none of them died from the infection. On August, 2010, Goya Foods, Inc. and Montalvan’s Sales, Inc. announced voluntary recalls of frozen mamey pulp. Typhoid fever is caused by Salmonella serovar Typhi, which is associated with food and water that have been contaminated by the feces or urine of S. Typhi infectors (Katz and others 2002). S. Typhi exists in unsanitary conditions, especially in crowded areas. Developing countries thus

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    The Microbe Many people in nowdays love consuming berries as it is known for one of the healtheirst fruits you can eat . However berries have been implicated in foodborne outbreak. Cyclospora Cayetanensis is a species of human pathogenic parasite that enter the human body and produces an intestinal infection in non-immune person. It is the parasite that is known as an emerging pathogen that causes diarrhea and, loss of appetite and it sometimes fatigue in humans. In terms of morphology, it has

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    Foodborne illness or food poisoning is the result of in taking toxic food that is contaminated or can be spoiled. It might seem rare for someone to receive food poisoning, but it is not uncommon. Some of the most common symptoms of food poisoning are nausea, vomiting, and diarrhea. It is usually a self-treatable and self-diagnosed due to the symptoms. Food poisoning has an effect on the victim for a few days to about a week. More the 3 million US cases have been reported each year which is 60,000

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    Salmonella Salmonella is a prokaryotic, rod shaped, bacterial organism. It is nonsporeforming and Gram-negative.(1) Salmonella is responsible for almost 60 percent of reported cases of bacterial food borne illness and 40 percent of all food borne illness of any kind. Salmonella survives digestion and reproduces in the small intestine, making people sick. Salmonella has hundreds of different types, all of which cause much the same illness in humans. Eating food containing live salmonella bacteria

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    isolate bacteriophage specific for Salmonella, we will following procedures below. Firstly, we will inoculate 5 mL tryptic soy broth with Salmonella. Then we touch a colony of Salmonella by using a sterile needle and transfer it to the tube consisting LB broth. After that, we incubate the culture overnight at 37oC. The next day, we will inoculate another tube with 4.5 mL of water sample that we take from poultry farm nearby that we suspect as source of Salmonella contamination on the squid water farm

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    Common enterocolitis may result without enteric fever; characterized by headache, abdominal pain, nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, dehydration may result; case fatality of 16% reduced to 1% with antibiotic therapy; mild and atypical infections occur ("Salmonella typhi | MSDSonline", 2017) Gastrointestinal contaminations are overwhelmingly connected with those serotypes which happen broadly in people. They can go in seriousness from asymptomatic carriage

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