TABLE. Number of cases, hospitalizations, and deaths caused by bacterial and parasitic infections, incidence rate, and percentage change compared with 2015–2017 average annual incidence rate, by pathogen — CDC’s Foodborne Diseases Active Surveillance Network,* 2018†.
| Pathogen | 2018 |
2018 compared with 2015–2017 |
|||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| No. of cases | No. (%) of hospitalizations | No. (%) of deaths | IR§ | % (95% CI) Change in IR¶ | |
|
Bacteria
| |||||
|
Campylobacter
|
9,723 |
1,811 (18) |
30 (0.3) |
19.6 |
12 (4 to 20) |
|
Salmonella
|
9,084 |
2,416 (27) |
36 (0.4) |
18.3 |
9 (3 to 16) |
| Shiga toxin–producing Escherichia coli** |
2,925 |
648 (22) |
13 (0.4) |
5.9 |
26 (7 to 48) |
|
Shigella
|
2,414 |
632 (26) |
1 (0.04) |
4.9 |
−2 (−24 to 26) |
|
Vibrio
|
537 |
151 (28) |
9 (2) |
1.1 |
109 (72 to 154) |
|
Yersinia
|
465 |
95 (20) |
4 (0.9) |
0.9 |
58 (26 to 99) |
|
Listeria
|
126 |
121 (96) |
26 (21) |
0.3 |
−4 (−23 to 21) |
|
Parasite
| |||||
|
Cyclospora
|
332 |
19 (5) |
1 (0.3) |
0.7 |
399 (202 to 725) |
| Total | 25,606 | 5,893 (23) | 120 (0.5) | — | — |
Abbreviation: CI = confidence interval; IR = incidence rate.
* Connecticut, Georgia, Maryland, Minnesota, New Mexico, Oregon, Tennessee, and selected counties in California, Colorado, and New York.
† Data are preliminary.
§ Per 100,000 population.
¶ Increase or decrease.
** All serogroups were combined because it is not possible to distinguish among them using culture-independent diagnostic tests.