Mass outbreak of food poisoning disease caused by small amounts of staphylococcal enterotoxins A and H

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 71, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 2793-2795

  Ikeda, Tetsuya ^a,d   Tamate, Naoto ^b   Yamaguchi, Keiji ^a   Makino, Sou Ichi ^c  

^a Hokkaido Institute of Public Health   (United States)

^b Kucchan Public Health Center   (United States)

^c OBIHIRO UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURE AND VETERINARY MEDICINE   (Japan)

^d HOKKAIDO INSTITUTE OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AFLATOXINS; DAIRY PRODUCTS; RAW MATERIALS; VIRUSES;

FOOD POISONING; RECONSTITUTED MILK; STAPHYLOCOCCAL ENTEROTOXIN A (SEA);

DISEASES;

STAPHYLOCOCCUS ENTEROTOXIN A; STAPHYLOCOCCUS ENTEROTOXIN H; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

FOOD POISONING;

ARTICLE; ENZYME RECONSTITUTION; EPIDEMIC; FOOD POISONING; HUMAN; JAPAN; MILK;

ANIMALS; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; ENTEROTOXINS; HUMANS; MILK; STAPHYLOCOCCAL FOOD POISONING;

EID: 18444369323     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.71.5.2793-2795.2005     Document Type: Article

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