Outbreak of food poisoning caused by lunch boxes prepared by a company contained with multidrug resistant salmonella typhimurium DT104

Japanese Journal of Infectious Diseases

Volumn 58, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 55-56

  Taguchi, Masumi ^b   Seto, Kazuko ^b   Kanki, Masashi ^b   Tsukamoto, Teizo ^b   Izumiya, Hidemasa ^a   Watanabe, Haruo ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (Japan)

^b OSAKA PREFECTURAL INSTITUTE OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (Japan)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

AMPICILLIN; CHLORAMPHENICOL; KANAMYCIN; STREPTOMYCIN; SULFAFURAZOLE; TETRACYCLINE; TRIMETHOPRIM;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIOPHAGE TYPING; BACTERIUM CONTAMINATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIARRHEA; EPIDEMIC; FECES ANALYSIS; FEVER; FOOD ANALYSIS; FOOD INTAKE; FOOD POISONING; FOOD PROCESSING; FOOD SAFETY; HUMAN; INSTRUMENT STERILIZATION; JAPAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; SALMONELLA TYPHIMURIUM; VOMITING;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; DRUG RESISTANCE, MULTIPLE, BACTERIAL; FOOD CONTAMINATION; HUMANS; JAPAN; SALMONELLA FOOD POISONING; SALMONELLA TYPHIMURIUM;

EID: 15844429526     PISSN: 13446304     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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