Identifying risk factors for Shiga Toxin-producing Escherichia coli by payment information

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 169-170

  Wilking, Hendrik ^a   Götsch, Udo ^b   Meier, Helma ^c   Thiele, Detlef ^c   Askar, Mona ^a   Dehnert, Manuel ^a   Frank, Christina ^a   Fruth, Angelika ^a   Krause, Gérard ^a   Prager, Rita ^a   Stark, Klaus ^a   Böddinghaus, Boris ^b   Bellinger, Oswald ^b   Gottschalk, René ^b  

^a ROBERT KOCH INSTITUTE   (Germany)

^b Health Protection Authority   (Germany)

^c Frankfurt am Main   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ASPARAGUS; BILLING AND CLAIMS; CAFETERIA BILLING INFORMATION; CATERING SERVICE; DESSERT; DIARRHEA; EPIDEMIC; EXPOSURE; FEMALE; FOOD; FOOD INTAKE; FRUIT; GERMANY; HEMOLYTIC UREMIC SYNDROME; HOSPITAL BASED CASE CONTROL STUDY; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; LETTER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEAL; PURCHASING; SALAD; SEROTYPE; SHIGA TOXIN PRODUCING ESCHERICHIA COLI;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANIMALS; CHILD; COMMERCE; CONTACT TRACING; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; FEMALE; FOOD MICROBIOLOGY; GERMANY; HEMOLYTIC-UREMIC SYNDROME; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SHIGA-TOXIGENIC ESCHERICHIA COLI; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84856561070     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: 10806059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid1801.111044     Document Type: Letter

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