National outbreak of Salmonella Java phage type 3b variant 9 infection using parallel case-control and case-case study designs, United Kingdom, July to October 2010

Eurosurveillance

Volumn 16, Issue 47, 2011, Pages

  Gobin, M ^a   Launders, N ^a   Lane, C ^a   Kafatos, G ^a   Adak, B ^a  

^a PUBLIC HEALTH ENGLAND   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIOPHAGE TYPING; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIARRHEA; EPIDEMIC; FEMALE; FEVER; FOOD INTAKE; HUMAN; LABORATORY TEST; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MICROBIOLOGICAL EXAMINATION; NONHUMAN; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; SALMONELLA; SALMONELLA ENTERITIDIS; SALMONELLA JAVIANA; SALMONELLOSIS; UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 82955207609     PISSN: 1025496X     EISSN: 15607917     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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