Q. Explain Food borne toxic infections?

Ans.

The food borne toxic infections, you may recall reading earlier, are caused by the ingestion of a large numbers of enterotoxigenic strains of bacteria which, while multiplying in the intestine produce and release enterotoxins in the intestines. Few of the foodborne toxic infections include Clostridium perfringens gastroenteritis, enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli gastroenteritis, cholera, listeriosis etc. Now we will focus on these major food borne infections and study about the characteristic features of the organism responsible for these infections.