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Applied and Environmental Microbiology, June 2007, p. 4071-4073, Vol. 73, No. 12
0099-2240/07/$08.00+0     doi:10.1128/AEM.00477-07
Copyright © 2007, American Society for Microbiology. All Rights Reserved.

Quantitative Assessment of Contamination of Fresh Food Produce of Various Retail Types by Human-Virulent Microsporidian Spores{triangledown}

Szymon Jedrzejewski,1 Thaddeus K. Graczyk,2,3,4* Anna Slodkowicz-Kowalska,1 Leena Tamang,2 and Anna C. Majewska1

Department of Biology and Medical Parasitology, Poznan University of Medical Sciences, Poznan, Poland,1 Department of Environmental Health Sciences, Division of Environmental Health Engineering, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland 21205,2 Johns Hopkins University Center for Water and Health, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland 21205,3 Department of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland 212054

Received 1 March 2007/ Accepted 16 April 2007

This study demonstrated that fresh food produce, such as berries, sprouts, and green-leafed vegetables, sold at the retail level can contain potentially viable microsporidian spores of human-virulent species, such as Enterocytozoon bieneusi, Encephalitozoon intestinalis, and Encephalitozoon cuniculi, at quantities representing a threat of food-borne infection.

* Corresponding author. Mailing address: Department of Environmental Health Sciences, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, 615 N. Wolfe Street, Baltimore, MD 21205. Phone: (410) 614-4984. Fax: (410) 955-0105. E-mail: tgraczyk{at}jhsph.edu

{triangledown} Published ahead of print on 20 April 2007.

Applied and Environmental Microbiology, June 2007, p. 4071-4073, Vol. 73, No. 12
0099-2240/07/$08.00+0     doi:10.1128/AEM.00477-07
Copyright © 2007, American Society for Microbiology. All Rights Reserved.





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