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ARCHIVES OF MICROBIOLOGY
Volume 199, Issue 6, Pages 811-825Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s00203-017-1393-y
Keywords
Foodborne illness; Escherichia coli; Outbreak; Food contamination
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- Chang Gung University of Science and Technology [EZRPF3E0151]
- Chang Gung Memorial Hospital [EMRPD1F0311]
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Food contamination by pathogenic microorganisms has been a serious public health problem and a cause of huge economic losses worldwide. Foodborne pathogenic Escherichia coli (E.coli) contamination, such as that with E.coli O157 and O104, is very common, even in developed countries. Bacterial contamination may occur during any of the steps in the farm-to-table continuum from environmental, animal, or human sources and cause foodborne illness. To understand the causes of the foodborne outbreaks by E.coli and food-contamination prevention measures, we collected and investigated the past 10 years' worldwide reports of foodborne E.coli contamination cases. In the first half of this review article, we introduce the infection and symptoms of five major foodborne diarrheagenic E.coli pathotypes: enteropathogenic E.coli (EPEC), Shiga toxin-producing E.coli/enterohemorrhagic E. coli (STEC/EHEC), Shigella/enteroinvasive E. coli (EIEC), entero-aggregative E. coli (EAEC), and enterotoxigenic E. coli (ETEC). In the second half of this review article, we introduce the foodborne outbreak cases caused by E. coli in natural foods and food products. Finally, we discuss current developments that can be applied to control and prevent bacterial food contamination.
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