Outbreak of salmonellosis linked to live poultry from a mail-order hatchery

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 366, Issue 22, 2012, Pages 2065-2073

  Gaffga, Nicholas H ^a   Behravesh, Casey Barton ^a   Ettestad, Paul J ^b   Smelser, Chad B ^b   Rhorer, Andrew R ^c   Cronquist, Alicia B ^e   Comstock, Nicole A ^e   Bidol, Sally A ^f   Patel, Nehal J ^a   Gerner Smidt, Peter ^a   Keene, William E ^g   Gomez, Thomas M ^d   Hopkins, Brett A ^h   Sotir, Mark J ^a   Angulo, Frederick J ^a  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR EMERGING AND ZOONOTIC INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

^b NEW MEXICO DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH   (United States)

^c UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE   (United States)

^d U S DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE   (United States)

^e Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment ^*  (United States)

^f MICHIGAN DEPARTMENT OF COMMUNITY HEALTH   (United States)

^g OREGON PUBLIC HEALTH DIVISION   (United States)

^h Pfizer Animal Health   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARTICLE; BLOODY DIARRHEA; CHILD; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; EPIDEMIC; FEMALE; HATCHERY; HUMAN; INFANT; INFECTION CONTROL; INFECTION RISK; INTERVIEW; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; POULTRY FARMING; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLIC HEALTH; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; SALMONELLOSIS; SCHOOL CHILD; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84861708898     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: 15334406     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJMoa1111818     Document Type: Article

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