Main Page | See live article | Alphabetical index The Bad Bug Book is a publication of the CDC's Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition describing some of the worst food-borne pathogens. The pathogens described are: Pathogenic bacteria: Salmonella spp. Clostridium botulinum Staphylococcus aureus Campylobacter jejuni Yersinia enterocolitica and Yersinia pseudotuberculosis Listeria monocytogenes Vibrio cholerae O1 Vibrio cholerae non-O1 Vibrio parahaemolyticus and other vibrios Vibrio vulnificus Clostridium perfringens Bacillus cereus Aeromonas hydrophila and other spp. Plesiomonas shigelloides Shigella spp. [Miscellaneous enterics Streptococcus Enterovirulent Escherichia coli group (EEC Group) Escherichia coli - enterotoxigenic (ETEC) Escherichia coli - enteropathogenic (EPEC) Escherichia coli O157:H7 enterohemorrhagic (EHEC) Escherichia coli - enteroinvasive (EIEC) Parasitic protozoa and worms Giardia lamblia Entamoeba histolytica Cryptosporidium parvum Cyclospora cayetanensis Anisakis sp. and related worms Diphyllobothrium spp. Nanophyetus spp. Eustrongylides sp. Acanthamoeba and other free-living amoebae Ascaris lumbricoides and Trichuris trichiura Viruses Hepatitis A virus Hepatitis E virus Rotavirus Norwalk virus group Other viral agents Natural toxins Ciguatera poisoning Shellfish toxins (PSP, DSP, NSP, ASP ) Scombroid poisoning Tetrodotoxin (Pufferfish) Mushroom toxins Aflatoxins Pyrrolizidine alkaloids Phytohaemagglutinin (Red kidney bean poisoning) Grayanotoxin (Honey intoxication) Other pathogenic agents Prions External links: http://www.cfsan.fda.gov/~mow/preface.html This article is from Wikipedia. All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.