A university outbreak of escherichia coli o157:h7 infections associated with roast beef and an unusually benign clinical course

Journal of Infectious Diseases

Volumn 172, Issue 4, 1995, Pages 1122-1125

  Rodrigue, Daniel C ^a,b   Mast, Eric E ^a,b   Greene, Katherine D ^a,b   Davis, Jeffrey P ^a,b   Hutchinson, Margaret A ^a,b   Wells, Joy G ^a,b   Barrett, Timothy J ^a,b   Griffin, Patricia M ^a,b  

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

^b WISCONSIN STATE LABORATORY OF HYGIENE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; DIARRHEA; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FEMALE; FOOD POISONING; GASTROINTESTINAL INFECTION; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANIMAL; CATTLE; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI INFECTIONS; FEMALE; FOOD MICROBIOLOGY; HUMAN; INFANT; MALE; MEAT; MIDDLE AGE; TIME FACTORS; VEGETABLES; WISCONSIN;

EID: 0029126240     PISSN: 00221899     EISSN: 15376613     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/infdis/172.4.1122     Document Type: Article

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