Real burden and potential risks from foodborne infections: the value of multi-jurisdictional collaborations

Trends in Food Science and Technology

Volumn 19, Issue SUPPL. 1, 2008, Pages

  Tauxe, Robert V ^a  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR EMERGING AND ZOONOTIC INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISEASES; ECOLOGY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FOOD SAFETY; MONITORING;

E.COLI O157:H7; FOODBORNE INFECTIONS; INTERDISCIPLINARY RESEARCH; MOLECULAR METHODS; MULTI-DISCIPLINARY RESEARCH; POTENTIAL RISKS; PUBLIC HEALTH SURVEILLANCES; SHIGA TOXIN-PRODUCING ESCHERICHIA COLI;

FOOD MICROBIOLOGY;

CAMPYLOBACTER; ESCHERICHIA COLI; LISTERIA; SALMONELLA; TOXOPLASMA;

EID: 55249104309     PISSN: 09242244     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tifs.2008.06.007     Document Type: Note

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