Cohort study of a campylobacteriosis outbreak associated with chicken liver parfait, United Kingdom, june 2010

Eurosurveillance

Volumn 15, Issue 44, 2010, Pages 1-4

  Inns, T ^a   Foster, K ^a   Gorton, R ^a  

^a PUBLIC HEALTH ENGLAND   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLOODY DIARRHEA; CAMPYLOBACTERIOSIS; CHICKEN LIVER PARFAIT; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; COHORT ANALYSIS; DIARRHEA; DISEASE DURATION; EPIDEMIC; FEMALE; FEVER; FOOD; FOOD INTAKE; FOOD POISONING; HUMAN; INCUBATION TIME; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NAUSEA; QUESTIONNAIRE; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; UNITED KINGDOM; VOMITING; ANIMAL; CAMPYLOBACTER; CHICKEN; FOOD CONTAMINATION; GASTROENTERITIS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; LEISURE; MEAT; MICROBIOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; STATISTICS;

ADULT; AGED; ANIMALS; CAMPYLOBACTER; CAMPYLOBACTER INFECTIONS; CHICKENS; COHORT STUDIES; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; FEMALE; FOOD CONTAMINATION; FOODBORNE DISEASES; GASTROENTERITIS; GREAT BRITAIN; HOLIDAYS; HUMANS; MALE; MEAT PRODUCTS; MIDDLE AGED; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 78649232719     PISSN: 1025496X     EISSN: 15607917     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2807/ese.15.44.19704-en     Document Type: Article

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