{"id":7010,"date":"2024-10-31T12:29:15","date_gmt":"2024-10-31T12:29:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/med.virginia.edu\/mic\/?p=7010"},"modified":"2026-05-22T20:32:41","modified_gmt":"2026-05-22T20:32:41","slug":"medicine-in-motion-melissa-kendall-phd-and-bill-petri-md-phd-discuss-e-coli-in-your-food","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/med.virginia.edu\/mic\/2024\/10\/31\/medicine-in-motion-melissa-kendall-phd-and-bill-petri-md-phd-discuss-e-coli-in-your-food\/","title":{"rendered":"Medicine In Motion – Melissa Kendall, PhD, and Bill Petri, MD, PhD, Discuss E. Coli in Your Food"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"(From

(From left) Melissa Kendall, PhD, and William Petri, MD, PhD<\/p><\/div>\n

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention published a food safety alert last week related to the recent E. coli outbreak linked to the McDonald\u2019s Quarter Pounder.<\/p>\n

In an effort to better understand E. coli and its impact on human health, UVA Today reached out to Melissa Kendall, PhD, an associate professor in the Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Cancer Biology and William Petri, MD, PhD, the Wade Hampton Frost Professor of Medicine, to get their insights into the outbreak.<\/p>\n

In the article, Drs. Kendall and Petri discuss how people can steer clear of the pathogenic E. coli and what to do if they suspect ingestion of contaminated food.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf they\u2019re concerned, they should drink plenty of water because diarrhea can cause dehydration. This is a bacteria we don\u2019t typically use antibiotics to treat because antibiotics are associated with an increase in Shiga toxin production; however, supportive care may be used to limit severe infection. People should monitor their symptoms, and if their diarrhea becomes more severe or contains blood, they should seek medical attention,\u201d<\/em> stated Dr. Kendall.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Posted to Medicine in Motion News<\/a> October 29, 2024<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention published a food safety alert last week related to the recent E. coli outbreak linked to the McDonald\u2019s Quarter Pounder. In an effort to better understand E. coli and its impact on human health, UVA Today reached out to Melissa Kendall, PhD, an associate professor in the Department […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2153,"featured_media":7021,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[18],"class_list":["post-7010","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-news","tag-intranet"],"acf":false,"yoast_head":"\nMedicine In Motion - Melissa Kendall, PhD, and Bill Petri, MD, PhD, Discuss E. Coli in Your Food - Department of Microbiology, Immunology, and Cancer Biology<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/med.virginia.edu\/mic\/2024\/10\/31\/medicine-in-motion-melissa-kendall-phd-and-bill-petri-md-phd-discuss-e-coli-in-your-food\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Medicine In Motion - Melissa Kendall, PhD, and Bill Petri, MD, PhD, Discuss E. Coli in Your Food - Department of Microbiology, Immunology, and Cancer Biology\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention published a food safety alert last week related to the recent E. coli outbreak linked to the McDonald\u2019s Quarter Pounder. In an effort to better understand E. coli and its impact on human health, UVA Today reached out to Melissa Kendall, PhD, an associate professor in the Department […]\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/med.virginia.edu\/mic\/2024\/10\/31\/medicine-in-motion-melissa-kendall-phd-and-bill-petri-md-phd-discuss-e-coli-in-your-food\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Department of Microbiology, Immunology, and Cancer Biology\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2024-10-31T12:29:15+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2026-05-22T20:32:41+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/med.virginia.edu\/mic\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/467\/2024\/10\/Kendall_Petri-SQUARE.webp\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"500\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"500\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/webp\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Daniel Marrs\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Daniel Marrs\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/med.virginia.edu\\\/mic\\\/2024\\\/10\\\/31\\\/medicine-in-motion-melissa-kendall-phd-and-bill-petri-md-phd-discuss-e-coli-in-your-food\\\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/med.virginia.edu\\\/mic\\\/2024\\\/10\\\/31\\\/medicine-in-motion-melissa-kendall-phd-and-bill-petri-md-phd-discuss-e-coli-in-your-food\\\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Daniel Marrs\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/med.virginia.edu\\\/mic\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/6bd7cf1d64b35cda6d8bfb2bda10994e\"},\"headline\":\"Medicine In Motion – Melissa Kendall, PhD, and Bill Petri, MD, PhD, Discuss E. Coli in Your Food\",\"datePublished\":\"2024-10-31T12:29:15+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2026-05-22T20:32:41+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/med.virginia.edu\\\/mic\\\/2024\\\/10\\\/31\\\/medicine-in-motion-melissa-kendall-phd-and-bill-petri-md-phd-discuss-e-coli-in-your-food\\\/\"},\"wordCount\":224,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/med.virginia.edu\\\/mic\\\/2024\\\/10\\\/31\\\/medicine-in-motion-melissa-kendall-phd-and-bill-petri-md-phd-discuss-e-coli-in-your-food\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/med.virginia.edu\\\/mic\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/sites\\\/467\\\/2024\\\/10\\\/Kendall_Petri-SQUARE.webp\",\"keywords\":[\"Intranet\"],\"articleSection\":[\"Latest News\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/med.virginia.edu\\\/mic\\\/2024\\\/10\\\/31\\\/medicine-in-motion-melissa-kendall-phd-and-bill-petri-md-phd-discuss-e-coli-in-your-food\\\/\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/med.virginia.edu\\\/mic\\\/2024\\\/10\\\/31\\\/medicine-in-motion-melissa-kendall-phd-and-bill-petri-md-phd-discuss-e-coli-in-your-food\\\/\",\"name\":\"Medicine In Motion - Melissa Kendall, PhD, and Bill Petri, MD, PhD, Discuss E. Coli in Your Food - Department of Microbiology, Immunology, and Cancer Biology\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/med.virginia.edu\\\/mic\\\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/med.virginia.edu\\\/mic\\\/2024\\\/10\\\/31\\\/medicine-in-motion-melissa-kendall-phd-and-bill-petri-md-phd-discuss-e-coli-in-your-food\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/med.virginia.edu\\\/mic\\\/2024\\\/10\\\/31\\\/medicine-in-motion-melissa-kendall-phd-and-bill-petri-md-phd-discuss-e-coli-in-your-food\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/med.virginia.edu\\\/mic\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/sites\\\/467\\\/2024\\\/10\\\/Kendall_Petri-SQUARE.webp\",\"datePublished\":\"2024-10-31T12:29:15+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2026-05-22T20:32:41+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/med.virginia.edu\\\/mic\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/6bd7cf1d64b35cda6d8bfb2bda10994e\"},\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/med.virginia.edu\\\/mic\\\/2024\\\/10\\\/31\\\/medicine-in-motion-melissa-kendall-phd-and-bill-petri-md-phd-discuss-e-coli-in-your-food\\\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/med.virginia.edu\\\/mic\\\/2024\\\/10\\\/31\\\/medicine-in-motion-melissa-kendall-phd-and-bill-petri-md-phd-discuss-e-coli-in-your-food\\\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/med.virginia.edu\\\/mic\\\/2024\\\/10\\\/31\\\/medicine-in-motion-melissa-kendall-phd-and-bill-petri-md-phd-discuss-e-coli-in-your-food\\\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/med.virginia.edu\\\/mic\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/sites\\\/467\\\/2024\\\/10\\\/Kendall_Petri-SQUARE.webp\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/med.virginia.edu\\\/mic\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/sites\\\/467\\\/2024\\\/10\\\/Kendall_Petri-SQUARE.webp\",\"width\":500,\"height\":500},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/med.virginia.edu\\\/mic\\\/2024\\\/10\\\/31\\\/medicine-in-motion-melissa-kendall-phd-and-bill-petri-md-phd-discuss-e-coli-in-your-food\\\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\\\/\\\/med.virginia.edu\\\/mic\\\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Medicine In Motion – Melissa Kendall, PhD, and Bill Petri, MD, PhD, Discuss E. Coli in Your Food\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/med.virginia.edu\\\/mic\\\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/med.virginia.edu\\\/mic\\\/\",\"name\":\"Department of Microbiology, Immunology, and Cancer Biology\",\"description\":\"\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\\\/\\\/med.virginia.edu\\\/mic\\\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/med.virginia.edu\\\/mic\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/6bd7cf1d64b35cda6d8bfb2bda10994e\",\"name\":\"Daniel Marrs\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/secure.gravatar.com\\\/avatar\\\/bbb3b985a675c5a57f867cd3b52a693680f4ee5c4e2cd7ca6905e52359419189?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/secure.gravatar.com\\\/avatar\\\/bbb3b985a675c5a57f867cd3b52a693680f4ee5c4e2cd7ca6905e52359419189?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/secure.gravatar.com\\\/avatar\\\/bbb3b985a675c5a57f867cd3b52a693680f4ee5c4e2cd7ca6905e52359419189?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"Daniel Marrs\"},\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/med.virginia.edu\\\/mic\\\/author\\\/dsm9wvirginia-edu\\\/\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Medicine In Motion - Melissa Kendall, PhD, and Bill Petri, MD, PhD, Discuss E. Coli in Your Food - Department of Microbiology, Immunology, and Cancer Biology","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/med.virginia.edu\/mic\/2024\/10\/31\/medicine-in-motion-melissa-kendall-phd-and-bill-petri-md-phd-discuss-e-coli-in-your-food\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Medicine In Motion - Melissa Kendall, PhD, and Bill Petri, MD, PhD, Discuss E. Coli in Your Food - Department of Microbiology, Immunology, and Cancer Biology","og_description":"The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention published a food safety alert last week related to the recent E. coli outbreak linked to the McDonald\u2019s Quarter Pounder. In an effort to better understand E. coli and its impact on human health, UVA Today reached out to Melissa Kendall, PhD, an associate professor in the Department […]","og_url":"https:\/\/med.virginia.edu\/mic\/2024\/10\/31\/medicine-in-motion-melissa-kendall-phd-and-bill-petri-md-phd-discuss-e-coli-in-your-food\/","og_site_name":"Department of Microbiology, Immunology, and Cancer Biology","article_published_time":"2024-10-31T12:29:15+00:00","article_modified_time":"2026-05-22T20:32:41+00:00","og_image":[{"width":500,"height":500,"url":"https:\/\/med.virginia.edu\/mic\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/467\/2024\/10\/Kendall_Petri-SQUARE.webp","type":"image\/webp"}],"author":"Daniel Marrs","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Daniel Marrs","Est. reading time":"2 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/med.virginia.edu\/mic\/2024\/10\/31\/medicine-in-motion-melissa-kendall-phd-and-bill-petri-md-phd-discuss-e-coli-in-your-food\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/med.virginia.edu\/mic\/2024\/10\/31\/medicine-in-motion-melissa-kendall-phd-and-bill-petri-md-phd-discuss-e-coli-in-your-food\/"},"author":{"name":"Daniel Marrs","@id":"https:\/\/med.virginia.edu\/mic\/#\/schema\/person\/6bd7cf1d64b35cda6d8bfb2bda10994e"},"headline":"Medicine In Motion – Melissa Kendall, PhD, and Bill Petri, MD, PhD, Discuss E. Coli in Your Food","datePublished":"2024-10-31T12:29:15+00:00","dateModified":"2026-05-22T20:32:41+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/med.virginia.edu\/mic\/2024\/10\/31\/medicine-in-motion-melissa-kendall-phd-and-bill-petri-md-phd-discuss-e-coli-in-your-food\/"},"wordCount":224,"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/med.virginia.edu\/mic\/2024\/10\/31\/medicine-in-motion-melissa-kendall-phd-and-bill-petri-md-phd-discuss-e-coli-in-your-food\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/med.virginia.edu\/mic\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/467\/2024\/10\/Kendall_Petri-SQUARE.webp","keywords":["Intranet"],"articleSection":["Latest News"],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/med.virginia.edu\/mic\/2024\/10\/31\/medicine-in-motion-melissa-kendall-phd-and-bill-petri-md-phd-discuss-e-coli-in-your-food\/","url":"https:\/\/med.virginia.edu\/mic\/2024\/10\/31\/medicine-in-motion-melissa-kendall-phd-and-bill-petri-md-phd-discuss-e-coli-in-your-food\/","name":"Medicine In Motion - Melissa Kendall, PhD, and Bill Petri, MD, PhD, Discuss E. Coli in Your Food - Department of Microbiology, Immunology, and Cancer Biology","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/med.virginia.edu\/mic\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/med.virginia.edu\/mic\/2024\/10\/31\/medicine-in-motion-melissa-kendall-phd-and-bill-petri-md-phd-discuss-e-coli-in-your-food\/#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/med.virginia.edu\/mic\/2024\/10\/31\/medicine-in-motion-melissa-kendall-phd-and-bill-petri-md-phd-discuss-e-coli-in-your-food\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/med.virginia.edu\/mic\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/467\/2024\/10\/Kendall_Petri-SQUARE.webp","datePublished":"2024-10-31T12:29:15+00:00","dateModified":"2026-05-22T20:32:41+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/med.virginia.edu\/mic\/#\/schema\/person\/6bd7cf1d64b35cda6d8bfb2bda10994e"},"breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/med.virginia.edu\/mic\/2024\/10\/31\/medicine-in-motion-melissa-kendall-phd-and-bill-petri-md-phd-discuss-e-coli-in-your-food\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/med.virginia.edu\/mic\/2024\/10\/31\/medicine-in-motion-melissa-kendall-phd-and-bill-petri-md-phd-discuss-e-coli-in-your-food\/"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/med.virginia.edu\/mic\/2024\/10\/31\/medicine-in-motion-melissa-kendall-phd-and-bill-petri-md-phd-discuss-e-coli-in-your-food\/#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/med.virginia.edu\/mic\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/467\/2024\/10\/Kendall_Petri-SQUARE.webp","contentUrl":"https:\/\/med.virginia.edu\/mic\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/467\/2024\/10\/Kendall_Petri-SQUARE.webp","width":500,"height":500},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/med.virginia.edu\/mic\/2024\/10\/31\/medicine-in-motion-melissa-kendall-phd-and-bill-petri-md-phd-discuss-e-coli-in-your-food\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/med.virginia.edu\/mic\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Medicine In Motion – Melissa Kendall, PhD, and Bill Petri, MD, PhD, Discuss E. Coli in Your Food"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/med.virginia.edu\/mic\/#website","url":"https:\/\/med.virginia.edu\/mic\/","name":"Department of Microbiology, Immunology, and Cancer Biology","description":"","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/med.virginia.edu\/mic\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/med.virginia.edu\/mic\/#\/schema\/person\/6bd7cf1d64b35cda6d8bfb2bda10994e","name":"Daniel Marrs","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/bbb3b985a675c5a57f867cd3b52a693680f4ee5c4e2cd7ca6905e52359419189?s=96&d=mm&r=g","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/bbb3b985a675c5a57f867cd3b52a693680f4ee5c4e2cd7ca6905e52359419189?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/bbb3b985a675c5a57f867cd3b52a693680f4ee5c4e2cd7ca6905e52359419189?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"Daniel Marrs"},"url":"https:\/\/med.virginia.edu\/mic\/author\/dsm9wvirginia-edu\/"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/med.virginia.edu\/mic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7010","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/med.virginia.edu\/mic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/med.virginia.edu\/mic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/med.virginia.edu\/mic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2153"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/med.virginia.edu\/mic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7010"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/med.virginia.edu\/mic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7010\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7022,"href":"https:\/\/med.virginia.edu\/mic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7010\/revisions\/7022"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/med.virginia.edu\/mic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7021"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/med.virginia.edu\/mic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7010"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/med.virginia.edu\/mic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7010"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/med.virginia.edu\/mic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7010"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}