Epidemiologic typing of Salmonella enterica serotype Enteritidis in a Canada-wide outbreak of gastroenteritis due to contaminated cheese

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 38, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 2403-2406

  Ahmed, Rafiq ^a   Soule, Geoff ^a   Demczuk, Walter H ^a   Clark, Clifford ^a   Khakhria, Rasik ^a   Ratnam, Samuel ^b   Marshall, Stephen ^a,c   Ng, Lai King ^a   Woodward, David L ^a   Johnson, Wendy M ^a,d   Rodgers, Frank G ^a  

^a LAB CENTRE FOR DISEASE CONTROL   (Canada)

^b Newfoundland and Labrador Public Health Laboratory   (Canada)

^c NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL CANADA   (Canada)

^d Cangenc Corp   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MELIBIOSE;

ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIOPHAGE TYPING; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; CANADA; CHEESE; EPIDEMIC; FERMENTATION; FOOD CONTAMINATION; GASTROENTERITIS; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; SALMONELLA ENTERITIDIS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ENTERITIDIS; NEGIBACTERIA; SALMONELLA ENTERICA; SALMONELLA ENTERITIDIS;

EID: 0034130197     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/.38.6.2403-2406.2000     Document Type: Article

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