Flashcards: Foodborne illnesses

Kuru is an incurable degenerative neurological disorder endemic to tribal regions of Papua New Guinea.

Scrapie is a fatal, degenerative disease that affects the nervous systems of sheep and goats.

Bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE), commonly known as mad cow disease, is a fatal neurodegenerative disease (encephalopathy) in cattle that causes a spongy degeneration of the brain and spinal cord.

Foodborne illness (also foodborne disease and colloquially referred to as food poisoning) is any illness resulting from the food spoilage of contaminated food, pathogenic bacteria, viruses, or parasites that contaminate food, as well as chemical or natural toxins such as poisonous mushrooms and various species of beans that have not been boiled for at least 10 minutes.

Helminths (/ˈhɛlmɪnθs/), also commonly known as parasitic worms, are large multicellular organisms, which when mature can generally be seen with the naked eye.

Food irradiation is the process of exposing foodstuffs to ionizing radiation.

Trichinosis, trichinellosis or trichiniasis is a parasitic disease caused by roundworms of the genus Trichinella.

Traveler's diarrhea (TD) is a stomach and intestinal infection.

Salmonellosis is an infection caused by Salmonella bacteria.

Ascariasis is a disease caused by the parasitic roundworm Ascaris lumbricoides.

Gastroenteritis, also known as infectious diarrhea, is inflammation of the gastrointestinal tract that involves the stomach and small intestine.

Shigellosis, also known as bacillary dysentery or Marlow syndrome, in its most severe manifestation, is a foodborne illness caused by infection by bacteria of the genus Shigella.

Botulism is a rare and potentially fatal illness caused by a toxin, produced by the bacterium Clostridium botulinum.

Campylobacteriosis is an infection by the Campylobacter bacterium, most commonly C.

Coliform bacteria are a commonly used indicator of sanitary quality of foods and water.

Diphyllobothriasis is the infection caused by tapeworms of the Diphyllobothrium genus, commonly Diphyllobothrium latum.

Helminthiasis (plural helminthiases), also known as worm infection, is any macroparasitic disease of humans and other animals in which a part of the body is infected with parasitic worms, known as helminths.

Taeniasis is a parasitic disease due to infection with tapeworms belonging to the genus Taenia.

Clostridial necrotizing enteritis (CNE), also called enteritis necroticans and pigbel, is an often fatal type of food poisoning caused by a β-toxin of Clostridium perfringens, Type C.

Shigatoxigenic Escherichia coli (STEC) and verotoxigenic E.

Konzo is an epidemic paralytic disease occurring in outbreaks in remote rural areas of low income African countries.

Phytohaemagglutinin (PHA, or phytohemagglutinin) is a lectin found in plants, especially certain legumes.

Tapeworm infection is the infestation of the digestive tract by a species of parasitic cestodal flatworm called tapeworms.