Outbreak of enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli infection with an unusually long duration of illness

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 42, Issue 11, 2006, Pages 1513-1517

  Yoder, Jonathan S ^a,b,d   Cesario, Shawn ^c   Plotkin, Victor ^c   Ma, Xinfang ^d   Kelly Shannon, Kate ^b   Dworkin, Mark S ^b  

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

^b Division of Infectious Disease   (United States)

^c Lake County Illinois   (United States)

^d ILLINOIS DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CARBONATED BEVERAGE; CATERING SERVICE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CUCUMBER; DIARRHEA; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE DURATION; ENTEROTOXIGENIC ESCHERICHIA COLI; EPIDEMIC; HEADACHE; HUMAN; MUSCLE CRAMP; NAUSEA; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; UNITED STATES; VOMITING; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

DIARRHEA; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; ESCHERICHIA COLI INFECTIONS; FOOD MICROBIOLOGY; HUMANS; ODDS RATIO; RISK FACTORS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 33646722690     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/503842     Document Type: Article

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