A multistate outbreak of Escherichia coli O157:H7 infections associated with consumption of mesclun lettuce

Archives of Internal Medicine

Volumn 159, Issue 15, 1999, Pages 1758-1764

  Hilborn, Elizabeth D ^a,g,i   Mermin, Jonathan H ^b   Mshar, Patricia A ^c   Hadler, James L ^c   Voetsch, Andrew ^b   Wojtkunski, Christine ^d,h   Swartz, Margaret ^e   Mshar, Roger ^c   Lambert Fair, Mary Anne ^b   Farrar, Jeffrey A ^f   Glynn, M Kathleen ^b   Slutsker, Laurence ^b  

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

^b NATL CENTER FOR INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

^c CDC   (United States)

^d YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e ILLINOIS DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^f CALIFORNIA DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^g U S ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY   (United States)

^h and Red Sox Foundation and Massachusetts General Hospital Home Base Program   (United States)

ⁱ U S ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CATTLE; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIARRHEA; ENTEROBACTER INFECTION; ESCHERICHIA COLI O157; FECES CULTURE; FEMALE; FEVER; FOOD CONTAMINATION; FOOD INTAKE; HEMOLYTIC UREMIC SYNDROME; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; LETTUCE; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; UNITED STATES; VOMITING;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; ANIMALS; CALIFORNIA; CATTLE; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CONNECTICUT; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; ESCHERICHIA COLI INFECTIONS; ESCHERICHIA COLI O157; FEMALE; FLORIDA; FOOD MICROBIOLOGY; HUMANS; ILLINOIS; LETTUCE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEW YORK; ODDS RATIO;

EID: 0033598115     PISSN: 00039926     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archinte.159.15.1758     Document Type: Article

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