Fatal foodborne clostridium perfringens illness at a state psychiatric hospital - Louisiana, 2010

Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report

Volumn 61, Issue 32, 2012, Pages 605-608

  Delaune, Erin ^a   Straif Bourgeois, Susanne ^a   Ratard, Raoult C ^a   Tynes, Lee ^b   Melstrom, Paul C ^c   Yard, Ellen ^c   Schier, Joshua G ^c   Reedy, Sarah J ^c   Gómez, Gerardo A ^d,e   Talkington, Deborah F ^d,e   Sodha, Samir V ^d,e   Dykes, Janet K ^d,e   Luquez, Carolina ^d,e   Sprecher, Armand ^f  

^a Louisiana Office of Public Health   (United States)

^b TULANE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c NATIONAL CENTER FOR ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH   (United States)

^d Waterborne   (United States)

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

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANIMAL; CASE REPORT; CAUSE OF DEATH; CHICKEN; CLOSTRIDIUM INFECTION; CLOSTRIDIUM PERFRINGENS; COLITIS; COOKING; EPIDEMIC; FATALITY; FEMALE; FOOD CONTAMINATION; FOOD HANDLING; FOOD POISONING; HUMAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MALE; MEAT; MENTAL HOSPITAL; MICROBIOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; NECROSIS; PATHOLOGY; REVIEW; UNITED STATES;

ADULT; ANIMALS; CAUSE OF DEATH; CHICKENS; CLOSTRIDIUM INFECTIONS; CLOSTRIDIUM PERFRINGENS; COLITIS; COOKING; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; FATAL OUTCOME; FEMALE; FOOD CONTAMINATION; FOOD HANDLING; FOODBORNE DISEASES; HOSPITALS, PSYCHIATRIC; HUMANS; LOUISIANA; MALE; MEAT; MIDDLE AGED; NECROSIS;

EID: 84866415446     PISSN: 01492195     EISSN: 1545861X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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