Prevention and control of enterohaemorrhagic Escherichia coli (EHEC) infections: Memorandum from a WHO meeting

Bulletin of the World Health Organization

Volumn 76, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 245-255

  Reilly, A ^a  

^a WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISEASE CONTROL; DISEASE TREATMENT; INFECTIOUS DISEASE;

ACUTE KIDNEY FAILURE; AGRICULTURAL WORKER; AGRICULTURE; CATERING SERVICE; CONFERENCE PAPER; COOKING; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; DIARRHEA; ESCHERICHIA COLI O157; FOOD CONTAMINATION; FOOD CONTROL; FOOD PROCESSING; FOOD QUALITY; HEALTH EDUCATION; HEMOLYTIC ANEMIA; HEMORRHAGIC COLITIS; HUMAN; INFECTION CONTROL; MORTALITY; PREVENTION AND CONTROL; PUBLIC HEALTH; SLAUGHTERHOUSE; THROMBOCYTOPENIA;

CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY; ESCHERICHIA COLI INFECTIONS; ESCHERICHIA COLI O157; FEMALE; FOOD POISONING; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; WORLD HEALTH;

EID: 0031851938     PISSN: 00429686     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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