Outbreak of Salmonella Braenderup infections associated with Roma tomatoes, northeastern United States, 2004: A useful method for subtyping exposures in Field investigations

Epidemiology and Infection

Volumn 135, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 1165-1173

  Gupta, S K ^a   Nalluswami, K ^b   Snider, C ^a,c   Perch, M ^a   Balasegaram, M ^a   Burmeister, D ^a   Lockett, J ^a   Sandt, C ^b   Hoekstra, R M ^a   Montgomery, S ^a  

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

^b PENNSYLVANIA DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH   (United States)

^c Association of Schools of Public Health   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CHEESE; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIARRHEA; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; EPIDEMIC; FEMALE; FOOD CONTAMINATION; FOOD INTAKE; HUMAN; INFANT; LETTUCE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SALMONELLA; SALMONELLA BRAENDERUP; SALMONELLOSIS; SEROTYPE; TOMATO; UNITED STATES;

CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; DIARRHEA; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LYCOPERSICON ESCULENTUM; MALE; SALMONELLA; SALMONELLA FOOD POISONING; UNITED STATES;

EID: 34249931635     PISSN: 09502688     EISSN: 14694409     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0950268807007911     Document Type: Article

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