Two consecutive large outbreaks of Salmonella enterica serotype Agona infections in infants linked to the consumption of powdered infant formula

Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal

Volumn 26, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 148-152

  Brouard, Cécile ^a,b   Espié, Emmanuelle ^a   Weill, Francois Xavier ^c   Kérouanton, Annaëlle ^d   Brisabois, Anne ^d   Forgue, Anna Maria ^e   Vaillant, Véronique ^a   De Valk, Henriette ^a  

^a INSTITUT DE VEILLE SANITAIRE   (France)

^b InVS   (France)

^c INSTITUT PASTEUR   (France)

^d Healthy Pigs Production and Experimentation Section   (France)

^e Direction Départementale des Affaires Sanitaires et Sociales de Seine Maritime   (France)

Author keywords

France; Infant formula; Outbreak; Salmonella

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL MILK; BACTERIUM CONTAMINATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIARRHEA; EPIDEMIC; FEMALE; FEVER; FOLLOW UP; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INFANT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MICROBIOLOGICAL EXAMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; SALMONELLA ENTERICA; SALMONELLOSIS; SEROTYPE;

CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; DIARRHEA; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; DNA FINGERPRINTING; DNA, BACTERIAL; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, PULSED-FIELD; FEMALE; FEVER; FOOD MICROBIOLOGY; FRANCE; GENOTYPE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT FORMULA; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; SALMONELLA ENTERICA; SALMONELLA FOOD POISONING;

EID: 33846645955     PISSN: 08913668     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.inf.0000253219.06258.23     Document Type: Article

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