A Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli O157 outbreak associated with consumption of rice cakes in 2011 in Japan

Epidemiology and Infection

Volumn 141, Issue 9, 2013, Pages 1897-1904

  Nabae, K ^a,b   Takahashi, M ^c   Wakui, T ^a   Kamiya, H ^a   Nakashima, K ^a   Taniguchi, K ^a   Okabe, N ^a,d  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (Japan)

^b TOHO UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^c Murayama Public Health Center   (Japan)

^d Kawasaki City Institute of Public Health   (Japan)

Author keywords

Japan; rice cakes; Shiga toxin producing Escherichia coli

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOODY DIARRHEA; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; EPIDEMIC; ESCHERICHIA COLI INFECTION; ESCHERICHIA COLI O157; FEMALE; FOOD CONTAMINATION; FOOD INTAKE; HEMOLYTIC UREMIC SYNDROME; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INCUBATION TIME; JAPAN; MALE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; RICE; SEX DIFFERENCE; SHIGA TOXIN PRODUCING ESCHERICHIA COLI;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; ESCHERICHIA COLI INFECTIONS; ESCHERICHIA COLI O157; FECES; FEMALE; FOODBORNE DISEASES; HUMANS; INFANT; JAPAN; MALE; METHANOMICROBIALES; MIDDLE AGED; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84881450790     PISSN: 09502688     EISSN: 14694409     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0950268812002439     Document Type: Article

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