Molecular fingerprinting defines a strain of Salmonella enterica serotype Anatum responsible for an international outbreak associated with formula-dried milk

Epidemiology and Infection

Volumn 121, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 289-293

  Threlfall, E J ^a   Ward, L R ^a   Hampton, M D ^a   Ridley, A M ^a   Rowe, B ^a   Roberts, D ^a   Gilbert, R J ^a   Van Someren, P ^b   Wall, P G ^b,d   Grimont, P ^c  

^a CENTRAL PUBLIC HEALTH LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

^b PUBLIC HEALTH ENGLAND   (United Kingdom)

^c INSTITUT PASTEUR   (France)

^d FOOD SAFETY AUTHORITY OF IRELAND   (Ireland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL MILK; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA FINGERPRINTING; FOOD CONTROL; FOOD POISONING; HUMAN; INFANT; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS; NONHUMAN; PLASMID; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; SALMONELLA ENTERICA; SEROTYPE;

ANIMALS; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, PULSED-FIELD; EUROPE; FOOD CONTAMINATION; HUMANS; INFANT FOOD; MILK; PLASMIDS; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; SALMONELLA ENTERICA; SALMONELLA INFECTIONS; SEROTYPING;

EID: 7844231318     PISSN: 09502688     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0950268898001149     Document Type: Article

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