Patricia M. Griffin

Foodborne Illness Acquired in the United States—Major Pathogens

Estimates of foodborne illness can be used to direct food safety policy and interventions. We used data from active and passive surveillance and other sources to estimate that e...

Food-Related Illness and Death in the United States

To better quantify the impact of foodborne diseases on health in the United States, we compiled and analyzed information from multiple surveillance systems and other sources. We...

Foodborne Illness Acquired in the United States—Unspecified Agents

Each year, 31 major known pathogens acquired in the United States caused an estimated 9.4 million episodes of foodborne illness. Additional episodes of illness were caused by un...

Foodborne Disease Outbreaks, 5-Year Summary, 1983–1987

Laboratory Practices for Stool‐Specimen Culture for Bacterial Pathogens, Including<i>Escherichia coli</i>O157:H7, in the FoodNet Sites, 1995–2000

In 2000, we surveyed microbiologists in 388 clinical laboratories, which tested an estimated 339,000 stool specimens in 1999, about laboratory methods and policies for the routi...