Bad Bug Book

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