Strategies to reduce person-to-person transmission during widespread Escherichia coli O157:H7 outbreak

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 13, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 860-866

  Seto, Edmund Y W ^a   Soller, Jeffrey A ^b,c   Colford Jr , John M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b and Associates   (United States)

^c Soller Environmental   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; DATA ANALYSIS; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; ENTEROBACTER INFECTION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; HUMAN; POPULATION MODEL; PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE;

EID: 34250000506     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: 10806059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid1306.061264     Document Type: Article

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