Attributing sporadic and outbreak-associated infections to sources: Blending epidemiological data

Epidemiology and Infection

Volumn 142, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 295-302

  Cole, D ^a   Griffin, P M ^a   Fullerton, K E ^a   Ayers, T ^a   Smith, K ^b   Ingram, L A ^c   Kissler, B ^d   Hoekstra, R M ^a  

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

^b MINNESOTA DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH   (United States)

^c TENNESSEE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH   (United States)

^d U S DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE   (United States)

Author keywords

Epidemiology; Escherichia coli; foodborne infections

Indexed keywords

UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; UNTREATED WATER; WATER;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CATERING SERVICE; CAUSAL ATTRIBUTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; EPIDEMIC; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL DATA; ESCHERICHIA COLI INFECTION; ESCHERICHIA COLI O157; FOOD; FOOD POISONING; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NONHUMAN; SHIGA TOXIN PRODUCING ESCHERICHIA COLI; EPIDEMIOLOGY; ESCHERICHIA COLI INFECTIONS; FOODBORNE DISEASES; HEALTH SURVEY; INFECTION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; UNITED STATES;

CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; EPIDEMIOLOGIC METHODS; ESCHERICHIA COLI INFECTIONS; FOODBORNE DISEASES; HUMANS; INFECTION; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; SHIGA-TOXIGENIC ESCHERICHIA COLI; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84894366400     PISSN: 09502688     EISSN: 14694409     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0950268813000915     Document Type: Article

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