Coliform contamination of vegetables obtained from popular restaurants in Guadalajara, Mexico, and Houston, Texas

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 47, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 218-221

  Koo, Hoonmo L ^a,b   Jiang, Zhi Dong ^b   Brown, Eric ^b   Garcia, Coralith ^e   Qi, Huibin ^b   DuPont, Herbert L ^a,b,c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^d ST LUKE S EPISCOPAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^e UNIVERSIDAD PERUANA CAYETANO HEREDIA   (Peru)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COUNT; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM CONTAMINATION; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CATERING SERVICE; COLIFORM BACTERIUM; FOOD CONTAMINATION; FOOD SAFETY; INFECTION RISK; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; TRAVELLER DIARRHEA; VEGETABLE;

DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; DIARRHEA; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; ENTEROTOXINS; FOOD HANDLING; FOOD MICROBIOLOGY; HEAT; HUMANS; MEXICO; RESTAURANTS; RISK FACTORS; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; TEXAS; TRAVEL; VEGETABLES; VIRULENCE;

EID: 46349083926     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/589249     Document Type: Article

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