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Diagnosis and management of foodborne illnesses: A primer for physicians and other health care professionals

Produced collaboratively by:

The American Medical Association

The American Nurses Association

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition - Food and Drug Administration

Food Safety and Inspection Service - United States Department of Agriculture

The American Medical Association is offering this Primer free to physicians and other health care professionals. If you wish to recieve a copy, please send an E-mail to L.J. Tan, Director - Infectious Diseases, Immunology, and Molecular Medicine, and provide your name, shipping address, and a contact telephone number.

A personal digital assistant (PDA) version of the primer is also available for downloading. This version, written for both PocketPC and Palm operating systems runs in the third party software, iSilo, and features interactivity and searchability.

Table of contents
PDF versions of each booklet in the primer are available below. PDFs require the free Adobe® Reader®.

Introduction and clinical considerations (PDF, 190KB)

Foodborne illnesses table: Bacterial agents (PDF, 318KB)

Foodborne illnesses table: Viral agents (PDF, 123KB)

Foodborne illnesses table: Parasitic agents (PDF, 217KB)

Foodborne illnesses table: Non-infectious agents (PDF, 301KB)

Patient scenario: Antibiotic-resistant salmonellosis (PDF, 138KB)

Patient scenario: Botulism poisoning (PDF, 138KB)

Patient scenario: Congenital toxoplasmosis (PDF, 135KB)

Patient scenario: Escherichia coli O157:H7 infection (PDF, 154KB)

Patient scenario: Enterotoxic escherichia coli infection (PDF, 137KB)

Patient scenario: Hepatitis A infection (PDF, 140KB)