title: Emerging trends in foodborne diseases.
abstract: New foodborne pathogens continue to emerge, and the globalization of the food supply means that the safety of our food depends on policies and practices in many countries. Public health surveillance of foodborne bacterial pathogens depends on culture, isolation, and subtyping. New diagnostic strategies that bypass culture threaten public health surveillance in the short-term but offer the potential for more refined and rapid outbreak detection in the future. Infectious disease clinicians play a critical role in diagnosis and reporting because they may be the first to suspect a new problem and often link clinical and public health communities.
authors.affiliation: Division of Foodborne, Waterborne and Environmental Diseases, National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Mailstop C-09, 1600 Clifton Road Northeast, Atlanta, GA 30333, USA. Electronic address: crb5@cdc.gov.
authors.forename: Christopher R
authors.initials: CR
authors.lastname: Braden
authors.forename: Robert V
authors.initials: RV
authors.lastname: Tauxe
mesh_terms: D021821:Communicable Diseases, Emerging / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000517:prevention & control; D004196:Disease Outbreaks / Q000517:prevention & control; D005506:Food Contamination / Q000517:prevention & control; D059022:Food Safety; D005517:Foodborne Diseases / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000517:prevention & control; D006801:Humans; D062486:Public Health Surveillance; D014481:United States / Q000453:epidemiology
keywords: Burden of illness; Food poisoning; Foodborne infections; Imports; Laboratory diagnosis; Molecular subtyping; Outbreak investigations; Trends