The Broad Street pump revisited: Dairy farms and an ongoing outbreak of inflammatory bowel disease in Forest, Virginia

Gut Pathogens

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2011, Pages

  Pierce, Ellen S ^a   Borowitz, Stephen M ^b   Naser, Saleh A ^c  

^a Box 800386 HSC ^*  (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA HEALTH SYSTEM   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

aerosolization; cluster; fecal oral waterborne transmission; inflammatory bowel disease; outbreak; paratuberculosis

Indexed keywords

EID: 84860683838     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17574749     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1757-4749-3-20     Document Type: Article

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