Investigation and management of an outbreak of salmonella typhimurium DT8 associated with duck eggs, Ireland 2009 to 2011

Eurosurveillance

Volumn 18, Issue 16, 2013, Pages

  Garvey, P ^a   McKeown, P ^a   Kelly, P ^b   Cormican, M ^c   Anderson, W ^d   Flack, A ^b   Barron, S ^b   De Lappe, N ^c   Buckley, J ^e   Cosgrove, C ^f   Molloy, D ^f   O'Connor, J ^c   O'Sullivan, P ^f   Matthews, J ^d   Ward, M ^g   Breslin, A ^f   O'Sullivan, M B ^f   Kelleher, K ^f   McNamara, A ^f   Foley Nolan, C ^h   Pelly, H ⁱ   Cloak, F ^a   more..

^a HEALTH PROTECTION SURVEILLANCE CENTRE   (Ireland)

^b Irish Agriculture Research Centre   (Ireland)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL GALWAY   (Ireland)

^d FOOD SAFETY AUTHORITY OF IRELAND   (Ireland)

^e Forward Planning and Strategic Development   (Ireland)

^f HEALTH SERVICE EXECUTIVE   (Ireland)

^g DR STEEVENS HOSPITAL   (Ireland)

^h Safefood   (Ireland)

ⁱ Merlin Park University Hospital   (Ireland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPICILLIN; CEFOTAXIME; CEFPODOXIME; CHLORAMPHENICOL; CIPROFLOXACIN; GENTAMICIN; KANAMYCIN; NALIDIXIC ACID; STREPTOMYCIN; SULFANILAMIDE; TETRACYCLINE; TRIMETHOPRIM;

ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DUCK; EGG; HUMAN; IRELAND; MOLECULAR TYPING; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; RISK; SALMONELLA FOOD POISONING; SALMONELLA TYPHIMURIUM; VARIABLE NUMBER OF TANDEM REPEAT;

EID: 84876491015     PISSN: 1025496X     EISSN: 15607917     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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