Bacterial contamination of animal feed and its relationship to human foodborne illness

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 35, Issue 7, 2002, Pages 859-865

  Crump, John A ^a,b   Griffin, Patricia M ^a   Angulo, Frederick J ^a  

^a NATL CENTER FOR INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURE; ANIMAL FOOD; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIUM CONTAMINATION; CREUTZFELDT JAKOB DISEASE; FOOD CONTAMINATION; FOOD SAFETY; LAW; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SALMONELLA ENTERICA; TYPHOID FEVER; UNITED STATES;

ANIMAL FEED; CONSUMER PRODUCT SAFETY; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; FOOD CONTAMINATION; HUMANS; MEAT PRODUCTS; SALMONELLA ENTERICA; SALMONELLA INFECTIONS; SWEDEN; TYPHOID FEVER; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0036788438     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/342885     Document Type: Article

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