ALLMedicine™ Food Poisoning Center

Nov 8th, 2021 - On 1 December 2020, the Department of Disease Control of Thailand was notified of a cluster of food poisoning cases among participants at a church festival in Mae Ai district, Chiang Mai province. We conducted an outbreak investigation to confirm ...

Nov 4th, 2021 - Background Acute gastritis is a term that encompasses a broad spectrum of entities that induce inflammatory changes in the gastric mucosa. Several different etiologies share the same general clinical presentation; however, they differ in their uni...

Nov 3rd, 2021 - Diarrheagenic Escherichia coli (DEC) causes diarrheal symptoms in humans. The comprehensive detection of DEC from feces using SYBR Green real-time PCR assay requires multiple runs. Moreover, PCR screening can have discrepancies related to the conf...

Nov 3rd, 2021 - In June 2020, a large-scale food poisoning outbreak involving about 3000 elementary and junior high school students occurred in Yashio, Saitama, Japan. A school lunch was the only food stuff ingested by all of the patients. Escherichia coli seroty...

Oct 14th, 2021 - Biogenic amines (BAs) are natural contaminants of wine that originate from decarboxylase microorganisms involved in fermentation processes. The primary relevance of biogenic amines in food could have both toxic effects on consumers' health (i.e., ...

Jul 30th, 2019 - Non-anthrax Bacillus Species bacteria can be responsible for food poisoning and local infections. Rarely, they lead to severe infections like blood stream infections and meningitis especially in immunocompromised patients like preterm infants. Bac...

Oct 13th, 2021 - Editor's note: Find the latest COVID-19 news and guidance in Medscape's Coronavirus Resource Center. Armed with pediatric data from the COVID-19 pandemic, a team of researchers is suggesting that most cases of Guillain-Barré syndrome may not be co...

Jul 23rd, 2021 - Editor's note: Find the latest COVID-19 news and guidance in Medscape's Coronavirus Resource Center. A family in Georgia is grieving after a 5-year-old boy with no known health problems died of COVID-19. Wyatt Gibson's family first thought the boy...

Aug 10th, 2020 - Though the patient missed an appointment scheduled for 5 days following the original visit, no one at Dr FM's staff attempted to contact the patient to inquire of his condition. Three days after that, the patient was found dead in his apartment. A...

Jun 18th, 2020 - Editor's note: Find the latest COVID-19 news and guidance in Medscape's Coronavirus Resource Center. As a Lyme patient,Jennifer Crystal has a lifetime of experience dealing with severe illness. So when the 42-year-old writer and patient advocate c...

Feb 20th, 2020 - A student buys sushi from the gas station for breakfast. Is this what sent him to the hospital -- or was it his penchant toward garbage picking for food? Watch the analysis of this fishy case. Read the transcript below: TB is a 22-year-old man, pr...