Outbreak of acute gastroenteritis in an air force base in Western Greece

BMC Public Health

Volumn 6, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Jelastopulu, Eleni ^a   Venieri, Danai ^a   Komninou, Georgia ^a   Kolokotronis, Theodoros ^a   Constantinidis, Theodoros C ^b   Christos Bantias, ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PATRAS   (Greece)

^b DEMOCRITUS UNIVERSITY OF THRACE   (Greece)

^c Fighter Wing 117   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ACUTE GASTROENTERITIS; AIR FORCE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIARRHEA; EPIDEMIC; FEMALE; FOOD ANALYSIS; GREECE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MICROBIOLOGICAL EXAMINATION; OCCUPATIONAL HAZARD; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; ACUTE DISEASE; ADULT; AVIATION; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CATERING SERVICE; CHEESE; FOOD CONTROL; GASTROENTERITIS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MEAT; MICROBIOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; MILITARY MEDICINE; QUESTIONNAIRE; SOLDIER; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADULT; AVIATION; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHEESE; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; FEMALE; FOOD MICROBIOLOGY; GASTROENTERITIS; GREECE; HUMANS; MALE; MEAT; MIDDLE AGED; MILITARY MEDICINE; MILITARY PERSONNEL; QUESTIONNAIRES; RESTAURANTS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

EID: 33750499912     PISSN: 14712458     EISSN: 14712458     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2458-6-254     Document Type: Article

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