Economic and Health Impacts Associated with a Salmonella Typhimurium Drinking Water Outbreak-Alamosa, CO, 2008

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2013, Pages

  Ailes, Elizabeth ^a,b   Budge, Philip ^b   Shankar, Manjunath ^b   Collier, Sarah ^a,b   Brinton, William ^c   Cronquist, Alicia ^d   Chen, Melissa ^b   Thornton, Andrew ^b   Beach, Michael J ^b   Brunkard, Joan M ^b  

^a International Health Resource Consulting   (United States)

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

^c Regional Epidemiologist   (United States)

^d Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DRINKING WATER; TAP WATER;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM CONTAMINATION; COMMUNITY CARE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIARRHEA; EPIDEMIC; FEMALE; FLUID INTAKE; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH CARE FACILITY; HEALTH HAZARD; HEALTH SURVEY; HOUSEHOLD; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PHYSICAL DISEASE; POSTAL MAIL; SALMONELLA TYPHIMURIUM; SCHOOL; UNITED STATES; WATER BORNE DISEASE; WATER CONTAMINATION; WATER SUPPLY; WATER TREATMENT;

COLORADO; COSTS AND COST ANALYSIS; DATA COLLECTION; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; HUMANS; PUBLIC HEALTH; SALMONELLA INFECTIONS; SALMONELLA TYPHIMURIUM; WATER MICROBIOLOGY; WATER SUPPLY;

EID: 84875062269     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0057439     Document Type: Article

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