By Ethan Covey
The incidence of eight domestically acquired infections transmitted commonly through food either increased or remained stable compared with baseline, according to preliminary Foodborne Diseases Active Surveillance Network (FoodNet) data from 2023.
However, a new report hypothesizes that the findings may be caused by an increase in the use of culture-independent diagnostic tests (CIDTs), not by stalled progress against these pathogens (MMWR Morb Mortal Wkly Rep 2024;73[26]:584-593).