Determining the burden of human illness from food borne diseases. CDC's emerging infectious disease program Food Borne Diseases Active Surveillance Network (FoodNet)

F J Angulo; A C Voetsch; D Vugia; J L Hadler; M Farley; C Hedberg; P Cieslak; D Morse; D Dwyer; D L Swerdlow

doi:10.1016/s0749-0720(15)30287-5

Determining the burden of human illness from food borne diseases. CDC's emerging infectious disease program Food Borne Diseases Active Surveillance Network (FoodNet)

Vet Clin North Am Food Anim Pract. 1998 Mar;14(1):165-72. doi: 10.1016/s0749-0720(15)30287-5.

Authors

F J Angulo¹, A C Voetsch, D Vugia, J L Hadler, M Farley, C Hedberg, P Cieslak, D Morse, D Dwyer, D L Swerdlow

Affiliation

¹ Foodborne and Diarrheal Diseases Branch, Division of Bacterial and Mycotic Diseases, National Center for Infectious Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, USA.

PMID: 9532675
DOI: 10.1016/s0749-0720(15)30287-5

Abstract

Food borne diseases cause a significant burden of illness in the United States. The Food Borne Diseases Active Surveillance Network (FoodNet), established in 1995, continues to monitor the burden and causes of food borne diseases and provide much of the data to address this public health problem.

Publication types

Research Support, U.S. Gov't, Non-P.H.S.

MeSH terms

Campylobacter Infections / epidemiology
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, U.S.*
Data Collection*
Dysentery, Bacillary / epidemiology
Escherichia coli Infections / epidemiology
Food Contamination / analysis*
Foodborne Diseases / epidemiology*
Humans
Salmonella Infections / epidemiology
United States / epidemiology