Detection of a multi-prefectural E. coli O157:H7 outbreak caused by contaminated Ikura-Sushi ingestion

Japanese Journal of Infectious Diseases

Volumn 52, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 52-53

  Terajima, Jun ^a   Izumiya, Hidemasa ^a   Iyoda, Sunao ^a   Tamura, Kazumichi ^a   Watanabe, Haruo ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIOPHAGE TYPING; ENTEROBACTER INFECTION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FOOD CONTAMINATION; HUMAN; JAPAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NONHUMAN; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; RICE; SALMON;

DISEASE OUTBREAKS; ESCHERICHIA COLI INFECTIONS; ESCHERICHIA COLI O157; FOOD MICROBIOLOGY; JAPAN; SALMON; SEAFOOD;

EID: 0032867009     PISSN: 13446304     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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