An outbreak of febrile gastroenteritis associated with jellied pork contaminated with Listeria monocytogenes

Wiener Klinische Wochenschrift

Volumn 121, Issue 3-4, 2009, Pages 149-156

  Pichler, Juliane ^a   Much, Peter ^a   Kasper, Sabine ^a   Fretz, Rainer ^a   Auer, Bettina ^a   Kathan, Julia ^a   Mann, Michaela ^a   Huhulescu, Steliana ^a   Ruppitsch, Werner ^a   Pietzka, Ariane ^a   Silberbauer, Karl ^b   Neumann, Christian ^b   Gschiel, Ernst ^c   De Martin, Alfred ^c   Schuetz, Angelika ^c   Gindl, Josef ^c   Neugschwandtner, Ernst ^c   Allerberger, Franz ^a  

^a AUSTRIAN AGENCY FOR HEALTH AND FOOD SAFETY   (Austria)

^b KRANKENHAUS DER BARMHERZIGEN BRÜDER   (Austria)

^c Burgenländische Landesregierung ^*  (Austria)

Author keywords

Foodborne; Gastroenteritis; Listeria monocytogenes; Meningitis; Outbreak; Rhombencephalitis

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL MENINGITIS; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; BLOOD CULTURE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COHORT ANALYSIS; DIARRHEA; EPIDEMIC; FECES ANALYSIS; FEMALE; FEVER; FOOD CONTAMINATION; GASTROENTERITIS; HEADACHE; HUMAN; INFECTION RISK; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; LISTERIOSIS; NONHUMAN; PAIN; PORK; RHOMBENCEPHALITIS; SEROTYPE; SORE THROAT; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; VOMITING;

EID: 62449224695     PISSN: 00435325     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00508-009-1137-3     Document Type: Article

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