Volume 17, Number 1—January 2011
Research
Foodborne Illness Acquired in the United States—Major Pathogens
Elaine Scallan1
, Robert M. Hoekstra, Frederick J. Angulo, Robert V. Tauxe, Marc-Alain Widdowson, Sharon L. Roy, Jeffery L. Jones, and Patricia M. Griffin
, Robert M. Hoekstra, Frederick J. Angulo, Robert V. Tauxe, Marc-Alain Widdowson, Sharon L. Roy, Jeffery L. Jones, and Patricia M. Griffin
Table 1
Modeling approaches used to estimate the total number of illnesses for different types of data, United States*
| Pathogens for which laboratory-confirmed illnesses were scaled up |
Pathogens for which US population was scaled down | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Active surveillance data | Passive surveillance data | Outbreak surveillance data | |
| Campylobacter spp. | Brucella spp. | Bacillus cereus | Astrovirus |
| Cryptosporidium spp. | Clostridium botulinum | Clostridium perfringens | Norovirus |
| Cyclospora cayetanensis | Giardia intestinalis | ETEC† | Rotavirus |
| STEC O157 | Hepatitis A virus | Staphylococcus aureus | Sapovirus |
| STEC non-O157 | Mycobacterium bovis | Streptococcus spp. group A | Toxoplasma gondii |
| Listeria monocytogenes | Trichinella spp. | ||
| Salmonella spp., nontyphoidal‡ | Vibrio cholerae, toxigenic | ||
| S. enterica serotype Typhi | Vibrio parahaemolyticus | ||
| Shigella spp. | Vibrio vulnificus | ||
| Yersinia enterocolitica | Vibrio spp., other | ||
*ETEC, enterotoxigenic Escherichi coli; STEC, Shiga toxin–producing E. coli.
†Numbers of E. coli other than STEC or ETEC assumed to be same as for ETEC.
‡Includes all serotypes other than Typhi.
1Current affiliation: Colorado School of Public Health, Aurora, Colorado, USA.
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