Sudden increases in listeriosis rates in England and Wales, 2001 and 2003

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 465-468

  Cairns, Benjamin J ^a,b   Payne, Robert J H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ENVIRONMENTAL TEMPERATURE; EPIDEMIC; FOOT AND MOUTH DISEASE; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INFECTION RATE; INFECTION RISK; LISTERIOSIS; TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT; UNITED KINGDOM;

AGED; ANIMALS; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; ENGLAND; FEMALE; FOOT-AND-MOUTH DISEASE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INFANT, NEWBORN; LISTERIA INFECTIONS; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, INFECTIOUS; SEASONS; WALES;

EID: 63849320870     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: 10806059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid1503.071432     Document Type: Article

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