Vital signs: Listeria illnesses, deaths, and outbreaks - United States, 2009-2011

Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report

Volumn 62, Issue 22, 2013, Pages 448-452

  Silk, Benjamin J ^a   Mahon, Barbara E ^a   Griffin, Patricia M ^a   Hannah Gould, L ^a   Tauxe, Robert V ^a   Crim, Stacy M ^a   Jackson, Kelly A ^a   Gerner Smidt, Peter ^a   Herman, Karen M ^a   Henao, Olga L ^a  

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; CHEESE; EPIDEMIC; FEMALE; FOOD POISONING; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; LISTERIOSIS; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; PREGNANCY; RISK FACTOR; STATISTICS; UNITED STATES;

AGED; CHEESE; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; FEMALE; FOODBORNE DISEASES; HUMANS; LISTERIOSIS; MIDDLE AGED; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; PREGNANCY; RISK FACTORS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84878792082     PISSN: 01492195     EISSN: 1545861X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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