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SUBMITTER: Scallan E
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3204615 | biostudies-literature | 2011 Jan
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Scallan Elaine E Griffin Patricia M PM Angulo Frederick J FJ Tauxe Robert V RV Hoekstra Robert M RM
Emerging infectious diseases 20110101 1
Each year, 31 major known pathogens acquired in the United States caused an estimated 9.4 million episodes of foodborne illness. Additional episodes of illness were caused by unspecified agents, including known agents with insufficient data to estimate agent-specific illness, known agents not yet recognized as causing foodborne illness, substances known to be in food but of unproven pathogenicity, and unknown agents. To estimate these additional illnesses, we used data from surveys, hospital rec ...[more]