Foodborne disease: The more things change, the more they stay the same

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 39, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 8-10

  Osterholm, Michael T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CATERING SERVICE; CONSUMER; ENTEROBACTER INFECTION; EPIDEMIC; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FOOD CONTAMINATION; FOOD INDUSTRY; FOOD IRRADIATION; FOOD SAFETY; HEALTH CARE ORGANIZATION; NOTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; UNITED STATES;

BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; COMMUNICABLE DISEASES; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; FOOD POISONING; HUMANS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 3042831280     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/421097     Document Type: Note

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