Campylobacter infection and chicken: An update on New Zealand's largest 'common source outbreak' [1]

New Zealand Medical Journal

Volumn 120, Issue 1261, 2007, Pages

  Baker, Michael ^a   Wilson, Nick ^a   Edwards, Richard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL TRANSMISSION; CAMPYLOBACTER; CHICKEN; EPIDEMIC; FATALITY; FOOD SAFETY; GRAM NEGATIVE INFECTION; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INFECTION CONTROL; LETTER; NEW ZEALAND; NONHUMAN; POULTRY FARMING;

EID: 36749028410     PISSN: None     EISSN: 11758716     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Letter

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