International outbreak of Salmonella Oranienburg due to German chocolate

BMC Infectious Diseases

Volumn 5, Issue , 2005, Pages

  Werber, Dirk ^a   Dreesman, Johannes ^b   Feil, Fabian ^b   van Treeck, Ulrich ^c   Fell, Gerhard ^d   Ethelberg, Steen ^e   Hauri, Anja M ^f   Roggentin, Peter ^g   Prager, Rita ^a   Fisher, Ian S T ^h   Behnke, Susanne C ^a   Bartelt, Edda ⁱ   Weise, Ekkehard ⁱ   Ellis, Andrea ^j   Siitonen, Anja ^k   Andersson, Yvonne ^l   Tschäpe, Helmut ^f   Kramer, Michael H ^a   Ammon, Andrea ^a  

^a ROBERT KOCH INSTITUTE   (Germany)

^b Niedersächsisches Landesgesundheitsamt   (Germany)

^c Landesinstitut für den Öffentlichen Gesundheitsdienst   (Germany)

^d Institute for Hygiene and Environment   (Germany)

^e STATENS SERUM INSTITUT   (Denmark)

^f Government Health Service Institute   (Germany)

^g Dr Brill Partner GmbH Institute for Hygiene and Microbiology   (Germany)

^h PUBLIC HEALTH ENGLAND   (United Kingdom)

ⁱ FEDERAL INSTITUTE FOR RISK ASSESSMENT   (Germany)

^j HEALTH CANADA   (Canada)

^k Laboratory of Enteric Pathogens   (Finland)

^l SWEDISH INSTITUTE FOR INFECTIOUS DISEASE CONTROL   (Sweden)

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Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CACAO; CANADA; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CHILD; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; EPIDEMIC; EUROPE; FOOD CONTAMINATION; FOOD INDUSTRY; FOOD INTAKE; FOOD SAFETY; GERMANY; HUMAN; INFANT; INFECTION CONTROL; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NONHUMAN; PUBLIC HEALTH; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SALMONELLA; ADOLESCENT; FEMALE; FOOD CONTROL; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MICROBIOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PRESCHOOL CHILD; RISK FACTOR; SALMONELLA FOOD POISONING;

SUGAR;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CACAO; CANADA; CANDY; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, PULSED-FIELD; EUROPE; FEMALE; FOOD MICROBIOLOGY; GERMANY; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RISK FACTORS; SALMONELLA; SALMONELLA FOOD POISONING;

EID: 25444489596     PISSN: 14712334     EISSN: 14712334     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2334-5-7     Document Type: Article

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