Foodborne illness caused by sporeforming bacteria
by Robert Herriman from Outbreak News Today on (#E0D2)
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) estimates that each year roughly 1 in 6 Americans (or 48 million people) get sick, 128,000 are hospitalized, and 3,000 die of foodborne diseases. One way to classify bacteria is whether or not they form spores, a structure that enables a cell to survive environmental pressures in ["]
