Investigating vomiting and/or bloody diarrhoea in Campylobacter jejuni infection

Journal of Medical Microbiology

Volumn 55, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 741-746

  Gillespie, Iain A ^a   O'Brien, Sarah J ^b   Frost, Jennifer A ^c   Tam, Clarence ^a   Tompkins, David ^d   Neal, Keith R ^e   Syed, Qutub ^f   Farthing, Michael J G ^g  

^a PUBLIC HEALTH ENGLAND   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^c Welsh Assembly   (United Kingdom)

^d West Yorkshire Health Protection Unit   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^f DBH House ^*  (United Kingdom)

^g ST GEORGE'S UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DRINKING WATER; TAP WATER; WATER;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BLOODY DIARRHEA; BREAD; CAMPYLOBACTER JEJUNI; CHILD; CLINICAL FEATURE; DISEASE DURATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; DOSE RESPONSE; ENTERITIS; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; ENVIRONMENTAL HAZARD; EXPLANATORY VARIABLE; FEMALE; FEVER; FLUID INTAKE; FOOD; FOOD INTAKE; FOOD PROCESSING; GENDER; HOSPITALIZATION; HOST SUSCEPTIBILITY; HUMAN; INFANT; INOCULATION; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALAISE; MALE; MEAT; POULTRY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; SANDWICH; SINGLE VARIABLE ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; VOMITING; WATER MANAGEMENT; WATER SUPPLY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; CAMPYLOBACTER INFECTIONS; CAMPYLOBACTER JEJUNI; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DIARRHEA; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; GREAT BRITAIN; HUMANS; INFANT; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RISK FACTORS; VOMITING;

EID: 33744955765     PISSN: 00222615     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/jmm.0.46422-0     Document Type: Article

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