An outbreak of salmonella typhimurium phage type 42 associated with the consumption of raw flour

Foodborne Pathogens and Disease

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 159-164

  Mccallum, Lisa ^a   Paine, Shevaun ^a   Sexton, Kerry ^a   Dufour, Muriel ^a   Dyet, Kristin ^a   Wilson, Maurice ^a   Campbell, Donald ^b   Bandaranayake, Don ^a   Hope, Virginia ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE AND RESEARCH   (New Zealand)

^b Ministry for Primary Industries   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BACTERIOPHAGE STM42; BACTERIUM CONTAMINATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; EGG; EPIDEMIC; FEMALE; FLOUR; FOOD INTAKE; FOOD PACKAGING; HUMAN; INFANT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; SALMONELLA PHAGE; SALMONELLA TYPHIMURIUM; SALMONELLOSIS; VARIABLE NUMBER OF TANDEM REPEAT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANIMALS; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; EGGS; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, PULSED-FIELD; FEMALE; FLOUR; FOOD CONTAMINATION; FOOD MICROBIOLOGY; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MINISATELLITE REPEATS; NEW ZEALAND; SALMONELLA FOOD POISONING; SALMONELLA TYPHIMURIUM; YOUNG ADULT;

SALMONELLA; SALMONELLA TYPHIMURIUM; TRITICUM AESTIVUM;

EID: 84879081592     PISSN: 15353141     EISSN: 15567125     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/fpd.2012.1282     Document Type: Article

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