An outbreak of salmonella Newport associated with mung bean sprouts in Germany and the Netherlands, October to November 2011

Eurosurveillance

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Bayer, C ^a,b   Bernard, H ^a   Prager, R ^a   Rabsch, W ^a   Hiller, P ^c   Malorny, B ^c   Pfefferkorn, B ^d   Frank, C ^a   De Jong, A ^e   Friesema, I ^f   Stark, K ^a   Rosner, B M ^a  

^a ROBERT KOCH INSTITUTE   (Germany)

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

^c FEDERAL INSTITUTE FOR RISK ASSESSMENT   (Germany)

^d Federal Office of Consumer Protection and Food Safety   (Germany)

^e Dutch Food and Consumer Product Safety Authority (NVWA)   (Netherlands)

^f NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC HEALTH AND THE ENVIRONMENT   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPICILLIN; CEFOTAXIME; CEFTAZIDIME; CHLORAMPHENICOL; CIPROFLOXACIN; COLISTIN; FLORFENICOL; GENTAMICIN; KANAMYCIN; NALIDIXIC ACID; STREPTOMYCIN; SULFAMETHOXAZOLE; TETRACYCLINE; TRIMETHOPRIM;

ADULT; AGED; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FOOD INTAKE; GERMANY; HEALTH HAZARD; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MICROBIOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; MOLECULAR TYPING; MUNG BEAN; NETHERLANDS; NONHUMAN; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; QUESTIONNAIRE; RISK FACTOR; SALMONELLA ENTERITIDIS; SPROUT; TELEPHONE INTERVIEW; TYPHOID FEVER; VERY ELDERLY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, PULSED-FIELD; FABACEAE; FEMALE; FOOD CONTAMINATION; FOOD MICROBIOLOGY; GERMANY; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOLECULAR TYPING; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NETHERLANDS; SALMONELLA ENTERICA; SALMONELLA FOOD POISONING; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84892166510     PISSN: 1025496X     EISSN: 15607917     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2807/1560-7917.ES2014.19.1.20665     Document Type: Article

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