Mass outbreak of food poisoning disease caused by small amounts of staphylococcal enterotoxins A and H.

Applied and environmental microbiology ·Vol. 71 ·No. 5 ·2005-05-00 ·Pages 2793-5

Ikeda T, Tamate N, Yamaguchi K, Makino S

Abstract

It was believed that food poisoning in Osaka in 2000 was due to small amounts of staphylococcal enterotoxin A (SEA) in reconstituted milk. Results of this study clearly indicate that SEH was also present in the raw material of reconstituted milk, indicating that the food poisoning was caused by multiple staphylococcal enterotoxins.

MeSH Terms

Animals Disease Outbreaks Enterotoxins/analysis,toxicity Humans Milk/microbiology Staphylococcal Food Poisoning/epidemiology

Chemicals

Enterotoxins Staphylococcal enterotoxin H enterotoxin A, Staphylococcal

Authors & Affiliations

4 authors, click to expand affiliations / ORCID

Ikeda Tetsuya

Hokkaido Institute of Public Health, Sapporo, Hokkaido 060-0819, Japan. ikeda@mbk.nifty.com

Tamate Naoto

Yamaguchi Keiji

Makino Sou-ichi

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Article Info

Journal

Applied and environmental microbiology

Abbr.

Appl Environ Microbiol

ISSN

0099-2240

DOI

10.1128/AEM.71.5.2793-2795.2005

ikeda@mbk.nifty.com

Published

2005-05-00

Pages

2793-5

Language

English

Region

United States

NLM ID

7605801

PMCID

PMC1087516

Subset

External Links

PubMed source DOI: 10.1128/AEM.71.5.2793-2795.2005 PMC Full Text View journal details

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