How safe is our food?

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 126-128

  Glenn Morris Jr , J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACUTE GASTROENTERITIS; DISABILITY; DISEASE MODEL; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; ESCHERICHIA COLI O157; FOOD CONTAMINATION; FOOD POISONING; FOOD SAFETY; GASTROINTESTINAL DISEASE; HEALTH HAZARD; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INFECTION RISK; MORTALITY; NONHUMAN; NOTE; PARASITE; SALMONELLA; SHIGELLA; VIBRIO;

DISEASE OUTBREAKS; FOOD MICROBIOLOGY; FOOD SAFETY; FOODBORNE DISEASES; GASTROENTERITIS; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; SENTINEL SURVEILLANCE; UNITED STATES; UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE;

EID: 78650986858     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: 10806059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid1701101821     Document Type: Note

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