Outbreak of invasive listeriosis associated with the consumption of hog head cheese - Louisiana, 2010

Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report

Volumn 60, Issue 13, 2011, Pages 401-405

  Delaune, E ^a   Sokol, T ^a   Ratard, R ^a   Allen, L ^b   Kissler, B ^b   Seys, S ^b   Holt, K ^b   Evans, P ^b   Ward, T ^c   Silk, Benjamin ^d   Jackson, K ^d   Graves, L ^d   Trees, E ^d  

^a Louisiana Office of Public Health   (United States)

^b Food Safety and Inspection Svc   (United States)

^c U S DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE   (United States)

^d NATIONAL CENTER FOR EMERGING AND ZOONOTIC INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CLASSIFICATION; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; EPIDEMIC; FEMALE; FOOD CONTAMINATION; FOOD POISONING; GENETICS; HUMAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; LISTERIOSIS; MALE; MEAT; MICROBIOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; SWINE; UNITED STATES;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANIMALS; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; FEMALE; FOOD CONTAMINATION; FOODBORNE DISEASES; HUMANS; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; LISTERIOSIS; LOUISIANA; MALE; MEAT PRODUCTS; MIDDLE AGED; SWINE;

EID: 79954541628     PISSN: 01492195     EISSN: 1545861X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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