Food-related illness and death in the United States

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 5, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 607-625

  Mead, Paul S ^a,b   Slutsker, Laurence ^a   Dietz, Vance ^a   McCaig, Linda F ^a   Bresee, Joseph S ^a   Shapiro, Craig ^a   Griffin, Patricia M ^a   Tauxe, Robert V ^a  

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

^b NATIONAL CENTER FOR EMERGING AND ZOONOTIC INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MARINE TOXIN; MYCOTOXIN;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL INFECTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIARRHEA; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; EPIDEMIC; FATALITY; FOOD CONTAMINATION; FOOD POISONING; HEALTH SURVEY; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INFECTION; LISTERIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PARASITOSIS; SALMONELLA; TOXOPLASMA; UNITED STATES; VIRUS INFECTION; VOMITING;

EID: 0032694976     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid0505.990502     Document Type: Article

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