Illness resulting from food that is spoiled or contaminated by pathogenic bacteria, viruses, parasites or toxins

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Salmonella Typhimurium infection of a human epithelial cell

Campylobacter, SEM

Salmonella enterica

Grey mould (Botrytis cinerea) on strawberries

Enteropathogenic E. coli on human intestinal cells

Staphylococcal enterotoxin B

Staphylococcal enterotoxin A

SEM of E.coli 0157

Fungal spores on the surface of a fig, SEM

Prevention of food poisoning by covering hand infections with a plaster, avoiding touching food, and keeping hands clean. Colour lithograph, ca. 1963.

Frank Rowntree recordings. Reel 68.

Food poisoning : its nature, history, and causation measures for its prevention and control / by Elliot B. Dewberry.

Acute infectious hemorrhagic fevers and mycotoxicoses in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics / by D. Carleton Gajdusek.

SEM of Campylobacter

Streptococcal pyrogenic exotoxin A1

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Foodborne Diseases

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Frank Rowntree recordings. Reel 68.

Food poisoning : its nature, history, and causation measures for its prevention and control / by Elliot B. Dewberry.

Acute infectious hemorrhagic fevers and mycotoxicoses in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics / by D. Carleton Gajdusek.

SEM of Campylobacter

Streptococcal pyrogenic exotoxin A1

Foodborne Diseases

Images from the collections

Images referencing Foodborne Diseases

Works from the collections

Frank Rowntree recordings. Reel 68.

Food poisoning : its nature, history, and causation measures for its prevention and control / by Elliot B. Dewberry.

Acute infectious hemorrhagic fevers and mycotoxicoses in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics / by D. Carleton Gajdusek.

SEM of Campylobacter

Streptococcal pyrogenic exotoxin A1

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