Epidemiology of a large restaurant-associated outbreak of Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli O111:NM

Epidemiology and Infection

Volumn 140, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 1644-1654

  Bradley, K K ^a   Williams, J M ^a   Burnsed, L J ^a   Lytle, M B ^a   McDermott, M D ^a   Mody, R K ^b   Bhattarai, A ^b   Mallonee, S ^a   Piercefield, E W ^b   McDonald Hamm, C K ^a   Smithee, L K ^a  

^a OKLAHOMA STATE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH   (United States)

^b CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

Author keywords

Epidemiology; foodborne infections; non O157 Escherichia coli illness; outbreaks; Shiga toxin producing E. coli

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CATERING SERVICE; CHILD; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEATH; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; EMPLOYEE; EPIDEMIC; ESCHERICHIA COLI INFECTION; FECES CULTURE; FEMALE; FOOD CONTAMINATION; HEMOLYTIC UREMIC SYNDROME; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INFANT; INTERVIEW; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRESCHOOL CHILD; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RURAL AREA; SCHOOL CHILD; SHIGA TOXIN PRODUCING ESCHERICHIA COLI; SHIGA TOXIN PRODUCING ESCHERICHIA COLI O111:NM; UNITED STATES; WATER SAMPLING;

ADULT; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COHORT STUDIES; COLIC; DIARRHEA; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; ESCHERICHIA COLI INFECTIONS; FEMALE; FOODBORNE DISEASES; HEMOLYTIC-UREMIC SYNDROME; HUMANS; INFANT; INTESTINAL DISEASES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; OKLAHOMA; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SHIGA-TOXIGENIC ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 84864483661     PISSN: 09502688     EISSN: 14694409     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0950268811002329     Document Type: Article

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