Role of Foods in Sporadic Listeriosis: I. Case-Control Study of Dietary Risk Factors

JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association

Volumn 267, Issue 15, 1992, Pages 2041-2045

  Schuchat, Anne ^a   Deaver, Katherine A ^a   Wenger, Jay D ^a   Plikaytis, Brian D ^a   Mascola, Laurene ^b   Pinner, Robert W ^a   Reingold, Arthur L ^c   Broome, Claire V ^a  

^a CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

^b Biostatistics and Information Branch Division of Bacterial and Mycotic Diseases Centers for Disease Control ^*  (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER PATIENT; CHEESE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICOSTEROID THERAPY; DIET; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; FEMALE; FOOD CONTAMINATION; FOOD INDUSTRY; FOOD POISONING; HUMAN; INFANT; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; LISTERIOSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEAT; ORGAN TRANSPLANTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECIPIENT; RISK FACTOR;

CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; FOOD; FOOD MICROBIOLOGY; HUMAN; INTERVIEWS; LISTERIA INFECTIONS; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; ODDS RATIO; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RISK FACTORS; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, P.H.S.; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0026540404     PISSN: 00987484     EISSN: 15383598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/jama.1992.03480150047035     Document Type: Article

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