Q. Food borne infections?
Food borne infections, as you may recall reading earlier, are caused by the ingestion of pathogenic microorganisms that penetrate the intestinal mucosa and multiply or migrate into other tissues where they multiply. Common food bome infections include Salmonellosis, Shigellosis, fibrio parahaemolyticus gastroenteritis, E. coli diarrhoea, infective hepatitis etc. Let us study about a few of these infections.