Estimating community incidence of Salmonella, Campylobacter, and Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli infections, Australia

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 14, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 1601-1609

  Hall, Gillian ^a,d   Yohannes, Keflemariam ^b   Raupach, Jane ^c   Becker, Niels ^d   Kirk, Martyn ^b  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b Canberra ACT   (Australia)

^c Department of Health ^*  (Australia)

^d The Australian National University   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; BACTERIAL INFECTION; CAMPYLOBACTER; CAMPYLOBACTERIOSIS; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FECES ANALYSIS; GASTROENTERITIS; GRAM NEGATIVE INFECTION; HEALTH SURVEY; HEMATOCHEZIA; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; LABORATORY TEST; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; SALMONELLA; SALMONELLOSIS; SHIGA TOXIN PRODUCING ESCHERICHIA COLI; SIMULATION;

AUSTRALIA; CAMPYLOBACTER INFECTIONS; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; EPIDEMIOLOGIC METHODS; ESCHERICHIA COLI INFECTIONS; FECES; HUMANS; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; PROBABILITY; SALMONELLA INFECTIONS; SHIGA-TOXIGENIC ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 54249136268     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: 10806059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid1410.071042     Document Type: Article

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