Outbreaks of food-borne disease - A common occurrence but rarely reported [4]

South African Medical Journal

Volumn 97, Issue 12 I, 2007, Pages 1272-

  Smith, Anthony M ^a   Gouws, Anne Marie ^b   Hoyland, Greta ^c   Sooka, Arvinda ^a   Keddy, Karen H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

^b Department of Health and Social Services ^*  (South Africa)

^c Rob Ferreira Hospital Nelspruit   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMOXICILLIN PLUS CLAVULANIC ACID; AMPICILLIN; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; CEFTAZIDIME; CEFTRIAXONE; CHLORAMPHENICOL; CIPROFLOXACIN; GENOMIC DNA; IMIPENEM; KANAMYCIN; NALIDIXIC ACID; PROTEIN XBAI; STREPTOMYCIN; SULFAMETHOXAZOLE; TETRACYCLINE; TRIMETHOPRIM; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; BACTEREMIA; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM CONTAMINATION; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BLOODY DIARRHEA; EPIDEMIC; FOOD CONTAMINATION; FOOD POISONING; FOODBORNE DISEASE; GARLIC; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INFECTION PREVENTION; LABORATORY TEST; LETTER; NONHUMAN; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; SALMONELLA ENTERICA; SALMONELLA VIRCHOW; SALMONELLOSIS; SOUTH AFRICA; TOMATO;

DISEASE NOTIFICATION; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; FOOD POISONING; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; SOUTH AFRICA;

EID: 38549086803     PISSN: 02569574     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Letter

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