A food-borne streptococcal sore throat outbreak in a small community

Scandinavian Journal of Infectious Diseases

Volumn 38, Issue 11-12, 2006, Pages 988-994

  Asteberg, Inger ^a   Andersson, Yvonne ^b   Dotevall, Leif ^c   Ericsson, Monika ^d   Darenberg, Jessica ^b   Henriques Nordmark, Birgitta ^b   Söderström, Ann ^a  

^a Units for Communicable Disease Control   (Sweden)

^b SWEDISH INSTITUTE FOR INFECTIOUS DISEASE CONTROL   (Sweden)

^c SAHLGRENSKA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^d Clinical Bacteriology   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; PENICILLIN G; PENICILLIN V;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL TRANSMISSION; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; COHORT ANALYSIS; DESCRIPTIVE RESEARCH; DISEASE DURATION; EPIDEMIC; FEMALE; FEVER; FINGER INJURY; FOOD CONTAMINATION; FOOD HANDLING; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NONHUMAN; PUBLIC HEALTH; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; QUESTIONNAIRE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SHIVERING; SORE THROAT; STREPTOCOCCUS GROUP A; STREPTOCOCCUS INFECTION; SWEDEN; THROAT CULTURE; WOUND INFECTION;

COHORT STUDIES; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, PULSED-FIELD; FOOD HANDLING; FOOD MICROBIOLOGY; FOOD POISONING; HUMANS; PHARYNGITIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; STREPTOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STREPTOCOCCUS PYOGENES; SWEDEN;

EID: 33845327525     PISSN: 00365548     EISSN: 16511980     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00365540600868370     Document Type: Article

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