Large outbreak of verocytotoxin-producing Escherichia coli O157 infection in visitors to a petting farm in South East England, 2009

Epidemiology and Infection

Volumn 140, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 1400-1413

  Ihekweazu, C ^a   Carroll, K ^a   Adak, B ^a   Smith, G ^a   Pritchard, G C ^b   Gillespie, I A ^a   Verlander, N Q ^a   Harvey Vince, L ^a   Reacher, M ^a   Edeghere, O ^a   Sultan, B ^a   Cooper, R ^a   Morgan, G ^a   Kinross, P T N ^a   Boxall, N S ^a   Iversen, A ^a   Bickler, G ^a  

^a PUBLIC HEALTH ENGLAND   (United Kingdom)

^b VETERINARY LABORATORIES AGENCY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Epidemiology; Escherichia coli (E. coli); notifiable infectious diseases; outbreaks; zoonoses

Indexed keywords

VEROTOXIN;

ANIMAL HOUSING; ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; BOVIDS; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CATTLE; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; EPIDEMIC; ESCHERICHIA COLI INFECTION; FARM ANIMAL; FECES ANALYSIS; FEMALE; FLUID INTAKE; FOOD INTAKE; FOX; GOAT; HAND WASHING; HORSE; HUMAN; HUMAN ANIMAL INTERACTION; LIVESTOCK; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MICROBIOLOGICAL EXAMINATION; NONHUMAN; ORGANISMAL INTERACTION; PETTING FARM; POULTRY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; RABBIT; RISK MANAGEMENT; SHEEP; SHIGA TOXIN PRODUCING ESCHERICHIA COLI; SUMMER; SWINE; UNITED KINGDOM; VARIABLE NUMBER OF TANDEM REPEAT; WATER CONTAMINATION;

ANIMALS; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DATA COLLECTION; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; ENGLAND; ESCHERICHIA COLI INFECTIONS; ESCHERICHIA COLI O157; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; QUESTIONNAIRES; RISK FACTORS; SHIGA TOXINS; TIME FACTORS; ZOONOSES;

EID: 84863938676     PISSN: 09502688     EISSN: 14694409     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0950268811002111     Document Type: Article

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