Transmission of human pathogenic viruses via food: Bakery products causing hepatitis a epidemic in Germany (district of Euskirchen);Übertragung humanpathogener viren durch lebensmittel: Hepatitis A-epidemie ausgelöst durch backwaren im kreis Euskirchen (NRW)

Gesundheitswesen

Volumn 58, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 339-340

  Becker, Barbara ^a   Promse B ^b   Kramer J ^a   Exner, M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

^b Gesundheitsamt Kreises Euskirchen ^*

Author keywords

Bakery products; Foodborne viruses; Hepatitis A Virus

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; EPIDEMIC; FOOD CONTROL; FOOD HANDLING; FOOD POISONING; GERMANY; HEPATITIS A; HEPATITIS A VIRUS; HUMAN; PATHOGENICITY; VIRULENCE;

DISEASE OUTBREAKS; FOOD HANDLING; FOOD MICROBIOLOGY; FOOD POISONING; GERMANY; HEPATITIS A; HEPATOVIRUS; HUMANS; VIRULENCE;

EID: 0030171103     PISSN: 09413790     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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