PROTOZOA CAUSING FOOD POISONING | ||||
| Journal of the Egyptian Society of Parasitology | ||||
| Article 5, Volume 46, Issue 3, December 2016, Page 497-508 PDF (456.66 K) | ||||
| Document Type: Original Article | ||||
| DOI: 10.21608/jesp.2016.88249 | ||||
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| Authors | ||||
| MAHFOUZ AHMAD AL-AGROUDI1; AYMAN T. A. MORSY2; MOUSA A. M. ISMAIL3; TOSSON A. MORSY4 | ||||
| 1Military Medical Academy. | ||||
| 2Ministry of Interior Hospitals | ||||
| 3Faculty of Medicine, University of Cairo, Egypt. | ||||
| 4Faculty of Medicine, University of Ain Shams, Egypt | ||||
| Abstract | ||||
| Food poisoning also called foodborne illness, or illness caused by eating contaminated food is a term used to cover an unpleasant range of illnesses. Food poisoning symptoms vary with the source of contamination. Most types of food poisoning cause one or more of the following signs and symptoms: nausea, vomiting, watery diarrhea, abdominal pain and cramps and fever Signs and symptoms may start within hours after eating the contaminated food, or they may begin days or even weeks later. Sickness caused by food poisoning generally lasts from a few hours to several days. | ||||
| Keywords | ||||
| Food poisoning; Protozoa | ||||
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