German outbreak of Escherichia coli O104:H4 associated with sprouts

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 365, Issue 19, 2011, Pages 1763-1770

  Buchholz, Udo ^a   Bernard, Helen ^a   Werber, Dirk ^a   Böhmer, Merle M ^a   Remschmidt, Cornelius ^a   Wilking, Hendrik ^a   Deleré, Yvonne ^a   An Der Heiden, Matthias ^a   Adlhoch, Cornelia ^a   Dreesman, Johannes ^d   Ehlers, Joachim ^e   Ethelberg, Steen ^h   Faber, Mirko ^a   Frank, Christina ^a   Fricke, Gerd ^b   Greiner, Matthias ^c,f   Höhle, Michael ^a   Ivarsson, Sofie ^g   Jark, Uwe ^e   Kirchner, Markus ^d   Koch, Judith ^a   Krause, Gérard ^a   Luber, Petra ^b   Rosner, Bettina ^a   Stark, Klaus ^a   Kühne, Michael ^e   more..

^a ROBERT KOCH INSTITUTE   (Germany)

^b Federal Office of Consumer Protection and Food Safety   (Germany)

^c FEDERAL INSTITUTE FOR RISK ASSESSMENT   (Germany)

^d Lower Saxony Governmental Institute of Public Health   (Germany)

^e Lower Saxony State Office for Consumer Protection and Food Safety   (Germany)

^f UNIVERSITY OF VETERINARY MEDICINE HANNOVER   (Germany)

^g SWEDISH INSTITUTE FOR INFECTIOUS DISEASE CONTROL   (Sweden)

^h Statens Serum Institut   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLOODY DIARRHEA; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CATERING SERVICE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CUCUMBER; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; EPIDEMIC; ESCHERICHIA COLI O104:H4; FEMALE; FOOD INTAKE; GERMANY; HEMOLYTIC UREMIC SYNDROME; HUMAN; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHIGA TOXIN PRODUCING ESCHERICHIA COLI; SPROUT;

EID: 80955166936     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: 15334406     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJMoa1106482     Document Type: Article

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