Salmonella gastroenteritis outbreak among workers from a tertiary care hospital in Mexico City

Revista de Investigacion Clinica

Volumn 49, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 349-353

  Molina Gamboa, Julio D ^a   Ponce de León Rosales, Samuel ^a   Guerrero Almeida, María De Lourdes ^a   Carvalho, Alexandro C T ^a   Romero Oliveros, Carmen ^a   Báez Martínez, Rosa ^a   Huertas Jiménez, Martha ^a   Osornio Silva, Guadalupe ^a   Ortiz, Rosa ^a   Domínguez Sosa, Freddy ^a   Quiñones Falconi, Francisco ^a   Ruiz Palacios, Guillermo ^a  

^a INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE CIENCIAS MÉDICAS Y NUTRICIÓN SALVADOR ZUBIRÁN   (Mexico)

Author keywords

Diarrhea; Gastroenteritis; Nosocomial; Salmonella

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; COOKING; CROSS INFECTION; EGG; EPIDEMIC; FEMALE; FOOD HANDLING; FOOD POISONING; GASTROENTERITIS; HETEROZYGOTE; HOSPITAL; HOSPITAL FOOD SERVICE; HOSPITAL PERSONNEL; HUMAN; MALE; MEXICO; MICROBIOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; QUESTIONNAIRE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CARRIER STATE; COOKERY; CROSS INFECTION; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; EGGS; FEMALE; FOOD HANDLING; FOOD SERVICE, HOSPITAL; GASTROENTERITIS; HOSPITALS, SPECIAL; HUMANS; MALE; MEXICO; MIDDLE AGED; PERSONNEL, HOSPITAL; QUESTIONNAIRES; SALMONELLA FOOD POISONING;

EID: 0031216203     PISSN: 00348376     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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