Gram-negative bacteria are responsible for causing MOST foodborne diseases. (True or false?)

Gram-negative bacteria are responsible for causing MOST foodborne diseases.

Indicate whether the statement is true or false.

Explain why coliforms are used to detect water contamination rather than directly quantifying individual pathogens such as Vibrio cholerae or Salmonella spp.

What will be an ideal response?

There were numerous cases throughout the United States of patients having bloody diarrhea all within a week of each other, many of which were hospitalized with severe cases.

Although the people spanned from California to New York, they all had attended a high school graduation party. Epidemiologists determined the common food factor was cheese curds homemade by a farmer. The home where the cheese curds were made was searched, and the cheese curds and milk used to produce them were taken to the local government lab. Among other microbes, Campylobacter jejuni was isolated from many of the cheese curds as well as the farmer's bulk tank milk. What should be done for those infected? What can be done to prevent this from happening again?
What will be an ideal response?

Many food infection agents also cause waterborne diseases.

Indicate whether the statement is true or false.

Food poisoning generally results from the ingestion of food containing microbial toxins.

Indicate whether the statement is true or false.

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Gram-negative bacteria are responsible for causing MOST foodborne diseases. (True or false?)

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