Table 1.

Scoping review keyword search strategy to identify cost-of-illness studies for infectious diseases ^a

Foodborne keywords	Communicable keywords	Cost keywords
Foodborne illness	Communicable	Cost
Foodborne illnesses	Communicable disease	Costs
Food-borne illness	Communicable diseases	Cost-of-illness
Food-borne illnesses	Communicable illness	Cost of illness
Foodborne disease	Communicable illnesses	Cost-of-illnesses
Foodborne diseases	Infectious	Cost of illnesses
Food-borne disease	Infectious disease	Costs-of-illness
Food-borne diseases	Infectious diseases	Costs of illness
Foodborne infection	Infectious illness	Costs-of-illnesses
Foodborne infections	Infectious illnesses	Costs of illnesses
Food-borne infection	Transmissible	Coi
Food-borne infections	Transmissible disease	Direct Costs
Food poison	Transmissible diseases	Direct Cost
Food poisoning	Transmissible illness	Indirect Costs
Foodborne poison	Transmissible illnesses	Indirect Cost
Foodborne poisoning		Economic
Food-borne poison		Economics
Food-borne poisoning		Economy
Foodborne pathogen		Economical
Foodborne pathogens		Financial
Food-borne pathogen		Monetary
Food-borne pathogens		Money
O157		Expenditure
VTEC		Expenditures
STEC		Dollar-value
O157:H7		Dollar value
Salmonella
Campylobacter

^aKeywords in each column (Foodborne, Communicable, Cost) were combined with the Boolean operator ‘OR’ and then each of the combined categories were further combined with the operator ‘AND’ in the database searches.