Hospital-acquired listeriosis outbreak caused by contaminated diced celery-texas, 2010

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 56, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 20-26

  Gaul, Linda Knudson ^a   Farag, Noha H ^b   Shim, Trudi ^a   Kingsley, Monica A ^a   Silk, Benjamin J ^c   Hyytia Trees, Eija ^b  

^a TEXAS DEPARTMENT OF STATE HEALTH SERVICES   (United States)

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

^c Epidemic Intelligence Service (EIS) Enteric Diseases Epidemiology Branch (EDEB) Division of Foodborne Waterborne and Environmental Diseases (DFWED)   (United States)

Author keywords

disease outbreak; food contamination; hospital infections; immunocompromised patient; listeriosis

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTEROID;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CELERY; CHICKEN; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICOSTEROID THERAPY; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; EPIDEMIC; FEMALE; FOOD COMPOSITION; FOOD CONTAMINATION; FOOD INTAKE; HOSPITAL ACQUIRED LISTERIOSIS; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITAL FOOD SERVICE; HOSPITAL INFECTION; HUMAN; IMMUNOCOMPROMISED PATIENT; INCUBATION TIME; INTERVIEW; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; LISTERIOSIS; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; MULTICENTER STUDY; MULTIPE LOCUS VARIABLE NUMBER TANDEM REPEAT ANALYSIS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; RISK FACTOR; UNITED STATES; VARIABLE NUMBER OF TANDEM REPEAT;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; APIUM GRAVEOLENS; CROSS INFECTION; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, PULSED-FIELD; FEMALE; FOOD MICROBIOLOGY; FOOD SERVICE, HOSPITAL; FOODBORNE DISEASES; HUMANS; INFECTIOUS DISEASE INCUBATION PERIOD; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; LISTERIOSIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; TEXAS;

EID: 84871252823     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: 15376591     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cid/cis817     Document Type: Article

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