Population-attributable risk estimates for Campylobacter infection, Australia

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 15, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 850-851

  Gillespie, Iain ^a  

^a PUBLIC HEALTH ENGLAND   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATTRIBUTABLE RISK; AUSTRALIA; CAMPYLOBACTER; CAMPYLOBACTERIOSIS; CASE CONTROL STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL DATA; FOOD CONTAMINATION; FOOD INTAKE; FOOD SAFETY; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INFECTION RISK; LETTER; MICROBIOLOGICAL EXAMINATION; MORBIDITY; POPULATION ATTRIBUTABLE RISK; POPULATION RISK; RISK FACTOR; UNITED STATES;

ANIMALS; AUSTRALIA; CAMPYLOBACTER; CAMPYLOBACTER INFECTIONS; CHICKENS; FOOD CONTAMINATION; GASTROENTERITIS; HUMANS; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 66149101612     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: 10806059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid1505.081553     Document Type: Letter

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