Completeness and timeliness of Salmonella notifications in Ireland in 2008: A cross sectional study

BMC Public Health

Volumn 10, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Nicolay, Nathalie ^a,b   Garvey, Patricia ^b   Delappe, Niall ^c   Cormican, Martin ^c   McKeown, Paul ^b  

^a EUROPEAN CENTRE FOR DISEASE PREVENTION AND CONTROL ECDC   (Sweden)

^b HEALTH PROTECTION SURVEILLANCE CENTRE   (Ireland)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL GALWAY   (Ireland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLASSIFICATION; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; GASTROENTERITIS; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; INFECTION CONTROL; IRELAND; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METHODOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; SALMONELLA; SALMONELLOSIS; SEROTYPING; STANDARD; TIME;

CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DISEASE NOTIFICATION; GASTROENTERITIS; HUMANS; IRELAND; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; SALMONELLA; SALMONELLA INFECTIONS; SEROTYPING; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 77957825736     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712458     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2458-10-568     Document Type: Article

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