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- Title
Importance of Listeria monocytogenes in Hospital food safety.
- Authors
Hosseini, Hedayat
- Abstract
Foodborne diseases are a variety of diseases causing by pathogens through contaminated foods. Most of foodborne illness are infections caused by different bacteria, viruses, and parasites. Foodborne listeriosis is one of the most serious and severe foodborne diseases with high mortality rate about 20%-30%, which is a relatively rare with 0.1 to 10 cases per 1 million people per year. It is estimated Listeria monocytogenes infects 23,150 and kills 5,463 people worldwide as an important foodborne disease. Populations who are susceptible to Listeria infections are the elderly, immunocompromised individuals, pregnant women and children. There are many reports about foodborne Listeria monocytogenes infection from hospital-provided foods for example base on report of Public Health England, nine of the eleven outbreaks reported to national surveillance in the UK were associated with hospital catering foods also there are more than 50 published reports of foodborne listeriosis that included patients who were or had recently been hospitalized and consumed food in a hospitals. The responsibility of a hospital food services are to provide nutritious and safe food to patients, as many of hospitalized patents are vulnerable people like immunocompromised individuals and children, foodborne listeriosis could be a high risk food safety concern, so hospitals should implement food safety management system to avoid serving high-risk foods to patients at risk for listeriosis.
- Subjects
LISTERIA monocytogenes; HOSPITAL food service; FOOD safety; PATHOGENIC microorganisms; IMMUNOCOMPROMISED patients
- Publication
Journal of Nutrition, Fasting & Health, 2022, Vol 10, p127
- ISSN
2821-2746
- Publication type
Article