A multi-state outbreak of Salmonella serotype Thompson infection from commercially distributed bread contaminated by an ill food handler

Epidemiology and Infection

Volumn 133, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 823-828

  Kimura, A C ^a   Palumbo, M S ^a   Meyers, H ^b   Abbott, S ^a   Rodriguez, R ^c   Werner, S B ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b Orange County Health Care Agency   (United States)

^c LOS ANGELES COUNTY DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH SERVICES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BREAD; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CATERING SERVICE; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; FOOD CONTAMINATION; FOOD HANDLING; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; SALMONELLA; SALMONELLOSIS; UNITED STATES;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BREAD; CALIFORNIA; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; FEMALE; FOOD HANDLING; FOOD MICROBIOLOGY; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RESTAURANTS; SALMONELLA; SALMONELLA FOOD POISONING; SEROTYPING;

EID: 26944445734     PISSN: 09502688     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0950268805004127     Document Type: Article

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