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One hundred years ago, Osler observed that to know syphilis was to know clinical medicine. Today, to know and appreciate the many clinical, microbiologic, and public health aspects of the outbreak of cyclosporiasis associated with raspberries that Herwaldt and colleagues describe in this issue of the Journal ¹ is to know foodborne disease in the modern world. The investigation conducted by Herwaldt et al. illustrates the changing epidemiologic characteristics of foodborne disease in this country.

Two of the key factors that have contributed to these changes are the substantial alterations in the American diet over the past two decades and the . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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N Engl J Med 1997; 337:1170-1172, Oct 16, 1997. Correspondence

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