Temporally distinct Escherichia coli O157 outbreaks associated with alfalfa sprouts linked to a common seed source - Colorado and Minnesota, 2003

Epidemiology and Infection

Volumn 133, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 439-447

  Ferguson, Dayna D ^a,c   Scheftel, J ^b   Cronquist, A ^a   Smith, K ^b   Woo Ming, A ^a   Anderson, E ^b   Knutsen, J ^a   De, A K ^c   Gershman, K ^a  

^a Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment ^*  (United States)

^b MINNESOTA DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH   (United States)

^c CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ALFALFA; ARTICLE; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CHILD CARE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELDERLY CARE; ENTEROBACTER INFECTION; EPIDEMIC; ESCHERICHIA COLI O157; FEMALE; FOOD AND DRUG ADMINISTRATION; FOOD CONTAMINATION; FOOD INTAKE; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HUMAN; IMMUNE DEFICIENCY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; METHODOLOGY; PLANT SEED; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; SPROUT; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; UNITED STATES; WASTE MANAGEMENT; FOOD CONTROL; FOOD POISONING; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED;

ADULT; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; COLORADO; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; ESCHERICHIA COLI INFECTIONS; ESCHERICHIA COLI O157; FEMALE; FOOD MICROBIOLOGY; FOOD POISONING; HUMANS; MALE; MEDICAGO SATIVA; MIDDLE AGED; MINNESOTA; SEEDS;

EID: 20844458230     PISSN: 09502688     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0950268804003589     Document Type: Article

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