What Is Gastroenteritis?
Reviewed: Dr. Gromatzky
3. Bacterial Gastroenteritis
Where the appropriate food safety precautions have not been adhered to, eating the wrong food can make us very ill indeed. One example of this is bacterial gastroenteritis, which is often caught after eating food that has been contaminated with certain bacteria.
Those bacteria most often responsible include campylobacter, escherichia coli, salmonella, and shigella, with campylobacter jejuni being the most common in developed countries. In developing countries, however, cholera is the most common cause of bacterial gastroenteritis. Contaminated drinking water is one of the main causes of gastroenteritis in developing countries.
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