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REGULATORY SIGNIFICANCE OF AEROMONAS IN FOODS
Author(s) -
ARCHER DOUGLAS L.,
KVENBERG JOHN E.
Publication year - 1988
Publication title -
journal of food safety
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.427
H-Index - 43
eISSN - 1745-4565
pISSN - 0149-6085
DOI - 10.1111/j.1745-4565.1988.tb00507.x
Subject(s) - aeromonas hydrophila , aeromonas , diarrheal disease , diarrhea , diarrheal diseases , isolation (microbiology) , disease , microbiology and biotechnology , enterotoxin , biology , acute diarrhea , medicine , fish <actinopterygii> , bacteria , escherichia coli , fishery , gene , biochemistry , genetics
Aeromonas hydrophila and other Aeromonas spp. are commonly found in fresh water and in foods. Although their isolation from stools of persons with diarrhea has implicated them as a cause of diarrheal disease, these microbes have failed to produce disease, even at very high doses, in voluntary human feeding studies. The presence of A. hydrophila in foods destined for cancer patients is certainly contraindicated, but at present Aeromonas spp. should be considered putative causes of acute gastroenteritis in normal persons. However, regulatory action based on health concerns seems insupportable at this time.