An international outbreak of Vero cytotoxin-producing Escherichia coli O157 infection amongst tourists; A challenge for the European infectious disease surveillance network

Epidemiology and Infection

Volumn 123, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 217-223

  Pebody, R G ^a   Furtado, C ^b   Rojas, A ^c   McCarthy, N ^d   Nylen, G ^g   Ruutu, P ^a   Leino, T ^a   Chalmers, R ^g   De Jong, B ^d   Donnelly, M ^b   Fisher, I ^g   Gilham, C ^b   Graverson, L ^e   Cheasty, T ^b   Willshaw, G ^b   Navarro, M ^f   Salmon, R ^g   Leinikki, P ^a   Wall, P ^b   Bartlett, C ^b  

^a NATIONAL PUBLIC HEALTH INSTITUTE   (Finland)

^b PUBLIC HEALTH ENGLAND   (United Kingdom)

^c Directorate General of Public Health   (Spain)

^d SWEDISH INSTITUTE FOR INFECTIOUS DISEASE CONTROL   (Sweden)

^e STATENS SERUM INSTITUT   (Denmark)

^f CARLOS III INSTITUTE OF HEALTH   (Spain)

^g PHLS Laboratory of Enteric Pathogens ^*

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

VEROTOXIN; WELL WATER;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CASE FINDING; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENMARK; DIARRHEA; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; ESCHERICHIA COLI O157; EUROPE; FECES CULTURE; FEMALE; FINLAND; FOOD CONTAMINATION; HUMAN; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; LABORATORY TEST; LEISURE; MALE; NONHUMAN; SERODIAGNOSIS; SWEDEN; UNITED KINGDOM; VEGETABLE; WATER SUPPLY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BACTERIAL TOXINS; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DISEASE NOTIFICATION; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; ENTEROTOXINS; ESCHERICHIA COLI INFECTIONS; ESCHERICHIA COLI O157; EUROPE; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RISK FACTORS; SHIGA-LIKE TOXIN I; TIME FACTORS; TRAVEL; WATER MICROBIOLOGY;

EID: 0032707870     PISSN: 09502688     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0950268899002940     Document Type: Article

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