Hazards of healthy living: Bottled water and salad vegetables as risk factors for campylobacter infection

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 9, Issue 10, 2003, Pages 1219-1225

  Evans, Meirion R ^a   Ribeiro, C Donald ^b   Salmon, Roland L ^c  

^a CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b Cardiff Public Health Laboratory   (United Kingdom)

^c Serv Communic Dis Survlnc Centre   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MINERAL WATER;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; CAMPYLOBACTER; CHICKEN; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; DIARRHEA; DRUG USE; FECES ANALYSIS; FOOD CONTAMINATION; FOOD INTAKE; FOOD PREFERENCE; GASTROENTERITIS; GRAM NEGATIVE INFECTION; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; INFANT; INFECTION RISK; LEISURE; LIFESTYLE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; QUESTIONNAIRE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; TRAVEL; VEGETABLE;

EID: 0141643248     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid0910.020823     Document Type: Article

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