Food safety guidance for older adults

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 42, Issue 9, 2006, Pages 1298-1304

  Kendall, Patricia A ^a   Val Hillers, Virginia ^b   Medeiros, Lydia C ^c  

^a Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

^b WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGING; CAMPYLOBACTER; CHRONIC DISEASE; DEMENTIA; ELDERLY CARE; ESCHERICHIA COLI O157; FOOD CONTAMINATION; FOOD HANDLING; FOOD INTAKE; FOOD POISONING; FOOD PROCESSING; FOOD SAFETY; FOOD STORAGE; GRAM NEGATIVE INFECTION; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HUMAN; IMMOBILIZATION; IMMUNE DEFICIENCY; IMMUNE RESPONSE; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; LISTERIOSIS; MALNUTRITION; MEDICAL INFORMATION; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; NOROVIRUS; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; PATHOGENESIS; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; PHYSICIAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLIC HEALTH; REVIEW; SALMONELLA; VIBRIO;

AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHRONIC DISEASE; COOKERY; FOOD HANDLING; FOOD MICROBIOLOGY; FOOD POISONING; HEALTH EDUCATION; HUMANS; SAFETY; UNITED STATES;

EID: 33646099159     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/503262     Document Type: Review

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