Restaurant Inspection Scores and Foodborne Disease

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 688-692

  Jones, Timothy F ^a   Pavlin, Boris I ^b   LaFleur, Bonnie J ^b   Ingram, L Amanda ^a   Schaffner, William ^b  

^a TENNESSEE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH   (United States)

^b VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CATERING SERVICE; EPIDEMIC; FOOD CONTAMINATION; FOOD POISONING; FOOD SAFETY; UNITED STATES;

EID: 1842484077     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid1004.030343     Document Type: Article

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