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The infection control laws and the food sanitation laws were revised last year in preparation for crisis control. Many kinds of enteric pathogens were designated as foodpoisoning pathogens including Shigella spp., Vibrio cholerae O1 and O139, Salmonella Typhi and Paratyphi A, and Cryptosporidium sp. Clostridium difficile and methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) are important pathogens in antibiotic-related enterocolitis and nosocomial infection, but are not food-born. Epidemiological settings for gastroenteritis are divided into six types: those are sporadic, mass outbreaks in the community and institutions, travel-related, antibioticrelated cases and sexually-transmitted cases. Firstline clinicians need to be prepared for food and animal sourced infections. |