Water-borne Campylobacter jejuni infection in a Danish town - A 6-week continuous source outbreak

Clinical Microbiology and Infection

Volumn 4, Issue 11, 1998, Pages 648-656

  Engberg, Jørgen ^a   Gerner Smidt, Peter ^a   Scheutz, Flemming ^a   Nielsen, Eva Møller ^b   On, Stephen Louis William ^b   Mølbak, Kåre ^a  

^a STATENS SERUM INSTITUT   (Denmark)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Campylobacter jejuni; Continuous source; Epidemiologic investigation; Outbreak; Water borne

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; GROUND WATER; RESTRICTION ENDONUCLEASE; WATER;

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; CAMPYLOBACTER JEJUNI; DENMARK; FOLLOW UP; GENOTYPE; GRAM NEGATIVE INFECTION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RIBOTYPING; SEROTYPING; SEWAGE; WATER CONTAMINATION; WATER SUPPLY;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CAMPYLOBACTER JEJUNI; NEGIBACTERIA;

EID: 0031739549     PISSN: 1198743X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-0691.1998.tb00348.x     Document Type: Article

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