The role of the Public Health Laboratory Service in England and Wales in the investigation of human listeriosis during the 1980s and 1990s

Food Control

Volumn 7, Issue 4-5, 1996, Pages 235-239

  McLauchlin, J ^a  

^a CENTRAL PUBLIC HEALTH LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Food safety; Listeria monocytogenes; Listeriosis

Indexed keywords

LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; LISTERIOSIS MONOCYTOGENES;

EID: 0030213237     PISSN: 09567135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0956-7135(96)00037-0     Document Type: Article

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