Bacterial food intoxication : an overview

Abstract EN

Food Contamination, food spoilage, foodborne diseases, bacterial foodborne disease, food infections, food poising, bacterial food poisoning, infective bacterial food poisoning and toxic bacterial food poisoning (bacterial food intoxication) have been all defined. This review concentrates on bacterial food intoxication.

Characteristics of the bacteria causing food intoxication, properties of toxins, symptoms of food intoxication, foodstuffs associated with food intoxication, preventive measures of food intoxication and pathogenesis of each food intoxication were reviewed.

The following bacteria were included : Bacillus cereus, Clostridium botulinum, Clostridium perfringens, enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli, enterohaemorrhagic Escherichia coli and Staphylococcus aureus.