The relationship between infecting dose and severity of disease in reported outbreaks of salmonella infections

Epidemiology and Infection

Volumn 109, Issue 3, 1992, Pages 371-388

  Glynn, J R ^a   Bradley, D J ^a  

^a LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; DISEASE SEVERITY; DOSE RESPONSE; EPIDEMIC; FOOD INTAKE; FOOD POISONING; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INCUBATION TIME; INFECTION; INFECTION CONTROL; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; SALMONELLA ENTERITIDIS; SALMONELLA TYPHI; SALMONELLA TYPHIMURIUM; SALMONELLOSIS; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; TYPHOID FEVER;

COMPARATIVE STUDY; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; FOOD MICROBIOLOGY; HUMAN; LOGISTIC MODELS; SALMONELLA FOOD POISONING; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T; TYPHOID FEVER;

EID: 0027075953     PISSN: 09502688     EISSN: 14694409     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0950268800050366     Document Type: Article

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