Outbreak of Salmonella Montevideo associated with a dietary food supplement flagged in the Rapid Alert System for Food and Feed (RASFF) in Germany, 2010

Eurosurveillance

Volumn 16, Issue 50, 2011, Pages

  Stocker P ^a,b   Rosner, B ^a   Werber, D ^a   Kirchner, M ^c   Reinecke, A ^d   Wichmann Schauer, H ^d   Prager, R ^a   Rabsch, W ^d   Frank, C ^a,e  

^a ROBERT KOCH INSTITUTE   (Germany)

^b EUROPEAN CENTRE FOR DISEASE PREVENTION AND CONTROL ECDC   (Sweden)

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

^d FEDERAL INSTITUTE FOR RISK ASSESSMENT   (Germany)

^e UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIARRHEA; DIET SUPPLEMENTATION; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; FEVER; FOOD SAFETY; GERMANY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; ORGANIZATION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRODUCT RECALL; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; QUESTIONNAIRE; RAPID ALERT SYSTEM FOR FOOD AND FEED; SALMONELLA; SALMONELLA FOOD POISONING; SALMONELLA MONTEVIDEO; SALMONELLOSIS; SCHOOL CHILD; VOMITING;

EID: 84855297291     PISSN: 1025496X     EISSN: 15607917     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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