Severe infections caused by Salmonella Enteritidis PT8/7 linked to a private barbecue

Epidemiology and Infection

Volumn 141, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 277-283

  Mertens, E ^a,b,c   Kreher, H ^d   Rabsch, W ^b   Bornhofen, B ^a   Alpers, K ^b   Burckhardt, F ^a  

^a Department for Infectious Disease Epidemiology   (Germany)

^b ROBERT KOCH INSTITUTE   (Germany)

^c EUROPEAN CENTRE FOR DISEASE PREVENTION AND CONTROL ECDC   (Sweden)

^d District Health Office Pirmasens   (Germany)

Author keywords

Food poisoning; foodborne infections; outbreaks; public health; salmonellosis

Indexed keywords

ACUTE PANCREATITIS; ADULT; ARTICLE; BACTERIOPHAGE TYPING; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BARBECUE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DIARRHEA; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE DURATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; EPIDEMIC; FEMALE; FOOD INTAKE; FOOD PROCESSING; FOOD STORAGE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; LONG TERM EXPOSURE; MALE; NONHUMAN; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PASTA; SALMONELLA ENTERITIDIS; SALMONELLA FOOD POISONING; VEGETABLE;

ADULT; BACTERIOPHAGE TYPING; COHORT STUDIES; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; FECES; FEMALE; FOOD MICROBIOLOGY; GERMANY; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; MALE; SALMONELLA ENTERITIDIS; SALMONELLA FOOD POISONING;

EID: 84876917612     PISSN: 09502688     EISSN: 14694409     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0950268812000726     Document Type: Article

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