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