Outbreak of listeriosis among Mexican immigrants as a result of consumption of illicitly produced Mexican-style cheese

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 40, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 677-682

  MacDonald, Pia D M ^a,c,e   Whitwam, R E ^b   Boggs, Jackie D ^b   MacCormack, J Newton ^c   Anderson, Kevin L ^c   Reardon, Joe W ^d   Saah, J Royden ^d,f   Graves, Lewis M ^a   Hunter, Susan B ^a   Sobel, Jeremy ^a  

^a NATL CENTER FOR INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

^b Forsyth County EMS   (United States)

^c NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d North Carolina Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services   (United States)

^e IL   (United States)

^f North Carolina Division of Public Health   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTEROID; RESTRICTION ENDONUCLEASE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CHEESE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DAIRY PRODUCT; EDUCATION; EPIDEMIC; FEMALE; FOOD CONTAMINATION; FOOD SAFETY; HISPANIC; HUMAN; IMMIGRANT; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; LISTERIOSIS; MALE; MICROSCOPY; MILK; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; RIBOTYPING; RISK FACTOR; SEROTYPE; SYMPTOMATOLOGY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHEESE; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; EMIGRATION AND IMMIGRATION; FEMALE; FOOD MICROBIOLOGY; FOOD POISONING; HUMANS; LISTERIA INFECTIONS; MALE; MEXICO; NORTH CAROLINA;

EID: 20144373892     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/427803     Document Type: Article

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