Table 2. Reported and estimated a illnesses, frequency of foodborne transmission, and hospitalization and case-fatality
rates for known foodborne pathogens, United States
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Reported Cases
Estimated by Surveillance Type % Hospital- Case
total ----------------------------------- Foodborne ization fatality
Disease Agent cases Active Passive Outbreak transmission rate rate
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Bacterial
Bacillus cereus 27,360 720 72 100 0.006 0.0000
Botulism, foodborne 58 29 100 0.800 0.0769
Brucella spp. 1,554 111 50 0.550 0.0500
Campylobacter spp 2,453,926 64,577 37,496 146 80 0.102 0.0010
Clostridium perfringens 248,520 6,540 654 100 0.003 0.0005
Escherichia coli O157:H7 73,480 3,674 2,725 500 85 0.295 0.0083
E. coli, non-O157 STEC 36,740 1,837 85 0.295 0.0083
E. coli, enterotoxigenic 79,420 2,090 209 70 0.005 0.0001
E. coli, other diarrheogenic 79,420 2,090 30 0.005 0.0001
Listeria monocytogenes 2,518 1,259 373 99 0.922 0.2000
Salmonella Typhib 824 412 80 0.750 0.0040
Salmonella, nontyphoidal1,412,498 37,171 37,842 3,640 95 0.221 0.0078
Shigella spp. 448,240 22,412 17,324 1,476 20 0.139 0.0016
Staphylococcus food 185,060 4,870 487 100 0.180 0.0002
poisoning
Streptococcus, foodborne 50,920 1,340 134 100 0.133 0.0000
Vibrio cholerae, toxigenic
54
27
90
0.340
0.0060
V. vulnificus
94
47
50
0.910
0.3900
Vibrio, other
7,880
393
112
65
0.126
0.0250
Yersinia enterocolitica
96,368
2,536
90
0.242
0.0005
Subtotal
5,204,934
Parasitic
Cryptosporidium parvum
300,000
6,630
2,788
10
0.150
0.005
Cyclospora cayetanensis
16,264
428
98
90
0.020
0.0005
Giardia lamblia
2,000,000
107,000
22,907
10
n/a
n/a
Toxoplasma gondii
225,000
15,000
50
n/a
n/a
Trichinella spiralis
52
26
100
0.081
0.003
Subtotal
2,541,316
Viral
Norwalk-like viruses
23,000,000
40
n/a
n/a
Rotavirus
3,900,000
1
n/a
n/a
Astrovirus
3,900,000
1
n/a
n/a
Hepatitis A
83,391
27,797
5
0.130
0.0030
Subtotal
30,883,391
Grand Total
38,629,641
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aNumbers in italics are estimates; others are measured.
b>70% of cases acquired abroad.
Food-related Illness and Death in the United States-Synopses
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