A large, multiple-restaurant outbreak of infection with Shigella flexneri serotype 2a traced to tomatoes

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 42, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 163-169

  Reller, Megan E ^a,b,e,g   Nelson, Jennifer M ^a   Wølbak, Kåre ^a,f   Ackman, David M ^c   Schoonmaker Bopp, Dianna J ^d   Root, Timothy P ^d   Mintz, Eric D ^a  

^a NATL CENTER FOR INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

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

^c Nassau County Department of Health   (United States)

^d NEW YORK STATE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH   (United States)

^e HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^f STATENS SERUM INSTITUT   (Denmark)

^g BOSTON CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPICILLIN; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ANTIDIARRHEAL AGENT; COTRIMOXAZOLE;

ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL SURVIVAL; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CATERING SERVICE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPIDEMIC; FECES CULTURE; FOOD HANDLING; FRUIT RIPENING; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; INFECTION PREVENTION; INOCULATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; SEROTYPE; SHIGELLA FLEXNERI; SHIGELLOSIS; TOMATO;

ADULT; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; DYSENTERY, BACILLARY; FEMALE; FOOD MICROBIOLOGY; HUMANS; LYCOPERSICON ESCULENTUM; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEW YORK; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; RESTAURANTS; SHIGELLA FLEXNERI;

EID: 30144437469     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/498900     Document Type: Article

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