Table 1.
Reported foodborne disease outbreaks with a confirmed pathogen associated with poultry and with foods other than poultry*, by pathogen, United States, 1998–2012
| Poultry, n (%) | Foods other than poultry, n (%) |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pathogen | Chicken | Turkey | Other poultry | Total | Total |
| Salmonella enterica† | 39 (41) | 25 (48) | 0 (0) | 64 (43) | 160 (40) |
| Clostridium perfringens | 23 (24) | 16 (31) | 0 (0) | 39 (26) | 67 (17) |
| Campylobacter spp. | 7 (7) | 2 (4) | 1 (33) | 10 (7) | 37 (9) |
| Norovirus | 6 (6) | 3 (6) | 1 (33) | 10 (7) | 56 (14) |
| Staphylococcus aureus | 7 (7) | 1 (2) | 0 (0) | 8 (5) | 43 (11) |
| Listeria monocytogenes | 1 (1) | 4 (8) | 0 (0) | 5 (3) | 10 (3) |
| Bacillus cereus | 4 (4) | 0 (0) | 0 (0) | 4 (3) | 17 (4) |
| Other‡ | 7 (7) | 1 (2) | 1 (33) | 9 (6) | 8 (2) |
| Total reports identifying a pathogen | 94 (100) | 52 (100) | 3 (100) | 149 (100) | 398 (100) |
Either a single contaminated ingredient was identified or all ingredients in the implicated food belonged to a single food category
Includes serotypes Berta (1 turkey outbreak), Braenderup (1 chicken outbreak), Enteritidis (9 chicken, 2 turkey), Hadar (3 turkey), Heidelberg (7 chicken, 4 turkey), Javiana (1 chicken), Montevideo (1 chicken), Muenchen (1 chicken), Newport (3 chicken, 3 turkey), Thompson (1 chicken), Typhimurium (5 chicken, 5 turkey), and unspecified (10 chicken, 7 turkey)
Includes: chemicals, Clostridium botulinum, Cyclospora cayetanensis, Escherichia coli, heavy metals, multiple, other bacterial, other parasites, sapovirus, Shigella sonnei, Streptococcus group A, toxins, Trichinella spiralis, Vibrio spp., and Yersinia enterocolitica.