A cluster of Escherichia coli O157:H7 infections with the hemolytic- uremic syndrome and death in California - A mandate for improved surveillance

Western Journal of Medicine

Volumn 165, Issue 1-2, 1996, Pages 15-19

  Shefer, Abigail M ^a,f   Koo, Denise ^b   Werner, S Benson ^c,d   Mintz, Eric D ^b   Baron, Roy ^a   Wells, Joy G ^b   Barrett, Timothy J ^b   Ginsberg, Michele ^e   Bryant, Ray ^c,d   Abbott, Sharon ^c,d   Griffin, Patricia M ^b  

^a Georgia Department of Public Health   (United States)

^b NATIONAL CENTER FOR EMERGING AND ZOONOTIC INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

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

^d Division of Communicable Disease Control   (United States)

^e S Diego Co Dept of Public Health   (United States)

^f CENTERS FOR DIS CONTR AND PREV   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIARRHEA; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FECES ANALYSIS; FEMALE; FOOD CONTAMINATION; GRAM NEGATIVE INFECTION; HEMOLYTIC UREMIC SYNDROME; HUMAN; MALE; MEAT; UNITED STATES;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANIMALS; CALIFORNIA; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CATTLE; CAUSE OF DEATH; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; DIARRHEA; DISEASE NOTIFICATION; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; ESCHERICHIA COLI INFECTIONS; ESCHERICHIA COLI O157; FECES; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HEMOLYTIC-UREMIC SYNDROME; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; MEAT; MIDDLE AGED; ODDS RATIO; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; RESTAURANTS; WASHINGTON;

EID: 10144230060     PISSN: 00930415     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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