Combining risk assessment and epidemiological risk factors to elucidate the sources of human E. coli O157 infection

Epidemiology and Infection

Volumn 140, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 1414-1429

  Rotariu, O ^a   Ogden, I D ^a   MacRitchie, L ^a   Forbes, K J ^a   Williams, A P ^b   Cross, P ^b   Hunter, C J ^a   Teunis, P F M ^c,d   Strachan, N J C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

^b BANGOR UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC HEALTH AND THE ENVIRONMENT   (Netherlands)

^d EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Beefburgers; E. coli O157; epidemiology; food poisoning; risk assessment; waterborne infection

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL TRANSMISSION; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; CHILD; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI INFECTION; FEMALE; FOOD CONTAMINATION; FOOD CONTROL; HAND WASHING; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INFANT; INFECTION CONTROL; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MICROBIOLOGICAL PARAMETERS; PREDICTION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; RISK REDUCTION; SCHOOL CHILD; SIMULATION; UNITED KINGDOM; URBAN RURAL DIFFERENCE; WATER CONTAMINATION; WATER TREATMENT;

ANIMALS; CATTLE; ESCHERICHIA COLI INFECTIONS; ESCHERICHIA COLI O157; FECES; FOOD MICROBIOLOGY; HUMANS; MEAT; RISK FACTORS; SCOTLAND; SHEEP; TIME FACTORS; WATER MICROBIOLOGY;

EID: 84863923329     PISSN: 09502688     EISSN: 14694409     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0950268811001646     Document Type: Article

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