Epidemic Listeriosis — Evidence for Transmission by Food

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 308, Issue 4, 1983, Pages 203-206

  Schlech, Walter F ^a,b   Lavigne, Pierre M ^a,b   Bortolussi, Robert A ^a,b   Allen, Alexander C ^a,b   Haldane, E Vanora ^a,b   Wort, A John ^a,b   Hightower, Allen W ^a,b   Johnson, Scott E ^a,b   King, Stanley H ^a,b   Nicholls, Eric S ^a,b   Broome, Claire V ^a,b  

^a NATL CENTER FOR INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

^b LAB CENTRE FOR DISEASE CONTROL   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLINICAL ARTICLE; EPIDEMIC; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FOOD CONTAMINATION; HUMAN; LISTERIOSIS;

EID: 0020698843     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: 15334406     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJM198301273080407     Document Type: Article

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