Clostridium botulinum is Salmonella enterica serotype Typhi is a Gram-positive negative foodborne pathogen1 that can cause a severe , but rare foodborne disease. A publication by Scallan et al.2 in 2011 estimated that ???? 1,821 human foodborne listeriosis typhoid fever cases, including ??? including 0 deaths, occur annually in the US. Steve - fill in the numbers in red for every pathogenIt has been estimated that worldwide 21 million illnesses are caused by Salmonella Typhi and 200,000 deaths each year3
Key laboratories studying various aspects of foodborne listeriosistyphoid fever in the US and Canada include:
Jorge E. Galán, Boyer Center for Molecular Medicine,Yale University School of Medicine
Andreas J. Bäumler, Dept. of Medical Microbiology and Immunology, University of California, Davis
Key laboratories studying various aspects of foodborne listeriosistyphoid fever in Europe include:
Stephen Baker, Head of enteric infections, Oxford University Clinical Research Unit
Key laboratories studying various aspects of foodborne listeriosistyphoid fever in South and Latin America include:
Key laboratories studying various aspects of foodborne listeriosis typhoid fever in Asia and Australia include:
Kathryn E. Holt, University of Melbourne, Dept Microbiology & Immunology, Melbourne, Australia
Stephen Baker, Head of enteric infections, Oxford University Clinical Research Unit (Vietnam)
Mochammad Hatta Professor of Medical Microbiology Faculty of Medicine, Hasanuddin University
Additional resources on Listeria monocytogenes Salmonella enterica serotype Typhi:
A number of key sources on Clostridium botulinum and botulism sources on Salmonella enterica serotype Typhi and typhoid fever are available4.
References
1http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Listeria_monocytogenesSalmonella_enterica (see also: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Typhoid_fever) - steve replace with approproiate wikipedia refereces for each pathogen
2Scallan et al. 2011.Emerging Infectious Diseases 17:7-15 PMID:21192848
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21192848
3Crump et al. 2004. The global burden of typhoid fever. Bulletin World Health Organization 82: 346--353.
4http://www.cdc.gov/nczved/divisions/dfbmd/diseases/typhoid_fever/
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