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Foodborne Diseases and Transmission

Agents Important
Reservoir/
Carrier
Transmissionb by
Multi-
plication
in food
Examples
Of some
Incriminated foods
Food
Water
Person To Person
BACTERUA
Bacillus cereus Soil - + - +

Cooked rice, cooked meats, vegetables, starch puddings
Raw milk, dairy products
Brucella spp Cattle, goats, sheep - + - + Raw milk, poultry
Campylobacter jejuni Chickens, dogs, cats, cattle, pigs, wild birds
 + + + -c Fish, meat, vegetables (home preserved) honey
Clostridium botulinum Soil, mammals, birds, fish - + - + Cooked meat and poultry,
gravy, beans

Clostriduim perfringes
Soil, animals, man
 - + - + Salad, raw vegetables
Escherichia coli            
Enterotoxigenic
 Man + + + + Milk
Enteropathogenic
 Man + + + + Cheese
Enteroinvasive
 Man + + 0 + Undercooked meat, raw milk, cheese
Enterohaemorrhagic Cattle, poultry,
Sheep		 + + + + Cheese, raw milk, coleslaw
Listeria monocytogenes