Powdered infant formula as a source of Salmonella infection in infants

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 46, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 268-273

  Cahill, Sarah M ^a   Wachsmuth, I Kaye ^b   Costarrica, Maria De Lourdes ^a   Ben Embarek, Peter Karim ^a  

^a FOOD AND AGRICULTURE ORGANIZATION OF THE UNITED NATIONS   (Italy)

^b World Health Organization ^*

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACINETOBACTER; ARTIFICIAL MILK; BACILLUS CEREUS; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM DETECTION; BREAST FEEDING; CITROBACTER FREUNDII; CITROBACTER KOSERI; CLOSTRIDIUM BOTULINUM; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; CLOSTRIDIUM PERFRINGENS; COAGULASE NEGATIVE STAPHYLOCOCCUS; ENTEROBACTER CLOACAE; ENTEROBACTER SAKAZAKII; EPIDEMIC; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL DATA; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FOOD CONTAMINATION; FOOD SAFETY; HAFNIA ALVEI; HIGH RISK INFANT; HUMAN; INFECTION CONTROL; INFECTION RISK; KLEBSIELLA OXYTOCA; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; LABORATORY TEST; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; PANTOEA AGGLOMERANS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLIC HEALTH PROBLEM; REVIEW; RISK MANAGEMENT; SALMONELLA; SALMONELLA ENTERICA; SALMONELLOSIS; SEROTYPE; SERRATIA; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

DISEASE OUTBREAKS; FOOD MICROBIOLOGY; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT FORMULA; SALMONELLA; SALMONELLA FOOD POISONING;

EID: 39449093444     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/524737     Document Type: Review

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