Environmental characteristics associated with campylobacteriosis: Accounting for the effect of age and season

Epidemiology and Infection

Volumn 140, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 311-322

  Arsenault, J ^a   Michel, P ^a   Berke, O ^b   Ravel, A ^a   Gosselin, P ^a,c,d  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

^c INSTITUT NATIONAL DE SANTÉ PUBLIQUE DU QUÉBEC   (Canada)

^d LAVAL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Age periods; campylobacteriosis; cattle; ecological study; poultry

Indexed keywords

RAIN;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE; ARTICLE; BOVIDS; CAMPYLOBACTER; CAMPYLOBACTERIOSIS; CANADA; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; ENVIRONMENTAL TEMPERATURE; FEMALE; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; POPULATION DENSITY; POULTRY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCHOOL CHILD; SEASONAL VARIATION; SLAUGHTERHOUSE; SUMMER; WINTER; ZOONOSIS;

ABATTOIRS; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANIMALS; CAMPYLOBACTER; CAMPYLOBACTER INFECTIONS; CATTLE; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; ENVIRONMENT; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INFANT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; POPULATION DENSITY; POULTRY; QUEBEC; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; RUMINANTS; SEASONS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84455206397     PISSN: 09502688     EISSN: 14694409     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0950268811000628     Document Type: Article

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