Cases of emesis associated with bacterial contamination of an infant breakfast cereal product

International Journal of Food Microbiology

Volumn 102, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 245-251

  Duc, Le H ^a   Dong, Tran C ^a   Logan, Niall A ^b   Sutherland, Alastair D ^b   Taylor, Janice ^b   Cutting, Simon M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b GLASGOW CALEDONIAN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bacillus cereus; Emesis; Food poisoning; Spores

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL TOXIN;

ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL MILK; BACILLUS CEREUS; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIAL SPORE; BACTERIUM CONTAMINATION; CASE REPORT; CEREAL; FEMALE; FOOD CONTAMINATION; FOOD POISONING; HUMAN; INFANT; MALE; NAUSEA AND VOMITING; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; TOXIN ANALYSIS; VOMITING;

BACILLUS CEREUS; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; CEREALS; COLONY COUNT, MICROBIAL; FEMALE; FOOD CONTAMINATION; FOOD POISONING; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT FOOD; INFANT FORMULA; MALE; VOMITING;

BACILLUS CEREUS; BACILLUS SUBTILIS;

EID: 21244483932     PISSN: 01681605     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijfoodmicro.2004.11.022     Document Type: Article

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