Salmonella in Imported Mangos: Shoeleather and Contemporary Epidemiologic Techniques Together Meet the Challenge

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 37, Issue 12, 2003, Pages 1591-1592

  Jones, Timothy F ^a,b   Schaffner, William ^a  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b TENNESSEE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EDITORIAL; FOOD CONTAMINATION; FOOD INTAKE; FOOD POISONING; FOOD PROCESSING; FOOD SAFETY; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HUMAN; LEATHER INDUSTRY; MANGO; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SALMONELLA; SALMONELLA ENTERICA; SHOE;

DISEASE OUTBREAKS; EPIDEMIOLOGIC METHODS; FOOD MICROBIOLOGY; HUMANS; MANGIFERA; SALMONELLA; SALMONELLA INFECTIONS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0348109309     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/379722     Document Type: Editorial

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