EHEC outbreak among staff at a children's hospital - Use of PCR for verocytotoxin detection and PFGE for epidemiological investigation

Epidemiology and Infection

Volumn 132, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 43-49

  Welinder Olsson, C ^a   Stenqvist, K ^b   Badenfors, M ^c   Brandberg, A ^c   Floren K ^c   Holm, M ^d   Holmberg, L ^b   Kjellin, E ^c   Marild S ^e   Studahl, A ^f   Kaijser, B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

^b Dept of Communicable Dis Control ^*  (Sweden)

^c SAHLGRENSKA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^d Environment Administration   (Sweden)

^e QUEEN SILVIA CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^f Health and Medical Care Committee   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

VEROTOXIN;

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; CLONE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; ENTEROBACTER INFECTION; EPIDEMIC; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI O157; HUMAN; LETTUCE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NONHUMAN; NURSING STAFF; PEDIATRIC HOSPITAL; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; QUESTIONNAIRE; SWEDEN; SYMPTOMATOLOGY;

DISEASE OUTBREAKS; DNA, BACTERIAL; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, PULSED-FIELD; EPIDEMIOLOGIC METHODS; ESCHERICHIA COLI INFECTIONS; ESCHERICHIA COLI O157; FECES; FOOD MICROBIOLOGY; FOOD POISONING; HOSPITALS, PEDIATRIC; HUMANS; INFECTION CONTROL; LETTUCE; MASS SCREENING; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH; PERSONNEL, HOSPITAL; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEROTYPING; SHIGA-LIKE TOXIN I; SHIGA-LIKE TOXIN II; SWEDEN; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 10744227914     PISSN: 09502688     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0950268803001444     Document Type: Article

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