Food Borne Infections And Toxins Flashcards
Give 2 old food borne diseases
- both spread feacal oral route*
> typhoid - enteric fever caused by salmonella enterica Typhi, survives in macrophages, causes sepsis
- still present throughout the world but eradicated from UK
- carriers (GIT cells or gall bladder) can infect others, eradication hard
> cholera - water borne
- vibrio cholerae
What is the best way to avoid food-borne enteritis ?
Cook your food properly
- but some foods eaten raw or rare
- can develop toxins on standing
- cooked food can be contaminated from raw food/feaces
5 primary agents of food borne disease in the UK
Campy Salmonella Listeria E. Coli Novovirus (Severity and no cases in hospitals)
Other causes food borne illness LOOK
- s alerts Bacillus cerise C perfringens Yule a Botulism ---
Why are burgers more likely to cause food poising than steak?
Ground meat contaminated throughout burger
- steaks only contaminated on the outside (inside equivalent to sterile wrt human pathogens)
Which pathogen accounts for majority of numbers of food poisoning
- campy 60%
- nori virus 30%
- salmonella very few
- norovirus and listeriosis very minimal
Which pathogens cause majority of HOSPITAL admission
- majority campy
- salmonella
- E. coli
- listeria
- norovirus (if immunocompromised/concurrent disease)
Which pathogens cause majority of deaths from food poisoning?
- campy 30%
- salmonella 20%
- E. coli 10%
- listeria 30%
- norovirus 10%
How has incidence of campy changed over time?
- was dropping
- since 2005 increasing again and now at higher level than initially
What is campy ? Subspecies? Diagnosis? How is it cultured? Incubation period?
- campylobacter jejuni (poultry)
- campylobacter coli (pigs)
- campylobacter upsaliensis (dogs)
> microaerophilic, 42*
> endemic in animals (birds and mammals) - dx by culture of feacal sample
- zoonotic*
-2-5d incubation period
Pathogenesis of campylobacter
- colonised SI
- VD+ stomach pains
- fever (so innate immune system activated)
Majority of infection with campylobacter from which sources?
- most raw poultry
- raw meat
- infected pets and farm animals
Dx of campy?
- culture feacal sample
- blood agar with Abx selection
- 48hrs 42* microaerophilic
- curved G- rod
How can campylobacter be controlled?
COOKING ALWAYS KILLS CAMPY!
How does meat handling allow for campy growth
- not properly defrosted chicken
- frozen centre allows survival inside carcasse
What makes listeria monocytogenes special?
Can grow in the fridge (8-10*)
Sources of infection of listeria
- contaminated raw meat
- unpasteurised milk (pasteurising destroys listeria well)
- cheese made with unpasteurised milk
- foods containing raw vegetables
- esp organic vegetables in well manured soils
Incidence of listeriosis over time?
Roughly stable around 150 cases/year
