Screening policies for daycare attendees: Lessons learned from a outbreak of E.coli O157:H7 in a daycare in Waterloo, Ontario

Canadian Journal of Public Health

Volumn 99, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 281-285

  Gilbert, Mark ^a,b   Monk, Curt ^c,d   Wang, Hsiu Li ^d   Diplock, Ken ^d   Landry, Lisa ^a  

^a PUBLIC HEALTH AGENCY OF CANADA   (Canada)

^b BRITISH COLUMBIA CENTRE FOR DISEASE CONTROL   (Canada)

^c University of Doha for Science and Technology   (Qatar)

^d Region of Waterloo Public Health ^*

Author keywords

Attitudes; Child; Child day care centers; Disease outbreaks; Eschericihia coli O157; Health knowledge; Mass screening; Practice; Preschool

Indexed keywords

EID: 50949096393     PISSN: 00084263     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/bf03403755     Document Type: Article

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