Using Laboratory-Based Surveillance Data for Prevention: An Algorithm for Detecting Salmonella Outbreaks

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 395-400

  Hutwagner, L C ^a   Maloney, E K ^a   Bean, N H ^a   Slutsker, L ^a   Martin, S M ^a  

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

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; EPIDEMIC; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; LABORATORY; METHODOLOGY; PUBLIC HEALTH; SALMONELLA ENTERITIDIS; SALMONELLOSIS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; UNITED STATES;

ALGORITHMS; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; HUMANS; LABORATORIES; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; PUBLIC HEALTH; SALMONELLA ENTERITIDIS; SALMONELLA INFECTIONS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0031181478     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid0303.970322     Document Type: Article

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