Multistate outbreak of Campylobacter jejuni infections associated with undercooked chicken livers - Northeastern United States, 2012

Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report

Volumn 62, Issue 44, 2013, Pages 874-876

  Tompkins, Bradley J ^a   Wirsing, Elisabeth ^b   Devlin, Valarie ^c   Kamhi, Laura ^c   Temple, Becky ^c   Weening, Keeley ^c   Cavallo, Steffany ^d   Allen, Latasha ^e   Brinig, Paul ^e   Goode, Brant ^f   Fitzgerald, Collette ^g   Heiman, Katherine ^g   Stroika, Steven ^g   Mahon, Barbara ^g  

^a Department of Medicine   (United States)

^b Environmental Health Div   (United States)

^c VERMONT DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH   (United States)

^d New Hampshire Dept of Health and Human Svcs   (United States)

^e U S DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE   (United States)

^f Office of Public Health Preparedness and Response   (United States)

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANIMAL; CAMPYLOBACTER JEJUNI; CAMPYLOBACTERIOSIS; CHICKEN; COOKING; EPIDEMIC; FEMALE; FOOD CONTAMINATION; HUMAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; LIVER; MALE; MEAT; MICROBIOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; NOTE; UNITED STATES; VERY ELDERLY; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANIMALS; CAMPYLOBACTER INFECTIONS; CAMPYLOBACTER JEJUNI; CHICKENS; COOKING; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; FEMALE; FOOD CONTAMINATION; HUMANS; LIVER; MALE; MEAT; MIDDLE AGED; NEW ENGLAND; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84887308307     PISSN: 01492195     EISSN: 1545861X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Note

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