Outbreak of Salmonella enterica serotype I 4,5,12:i:-infections: The challenges of hypothesis generation and microwave cooking

Epidemiology and Infection

Volumn 142, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 1050-1060

  Mody, R K ^a,b   Meyer, S ^c   Trees, E ^b   White, P L ^d   Nguyen, T ^b   Sowadsky, R ^e   Henao, O L ^b   Lafon, P C ^b   Austin, J ^b   Azzam, I ^e   Griffin, P M ^b   Tauxe, R V ^b   Smith, K ^c   Williams, I T ^b  

^a CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

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

^c MINNESOTA DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH   (United States)

^d U S DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE   (United States)

^e Nevada Division of Public and Behavioral Health   (United States)

Author keywords

Food safety; foodborne infections; outbreaks; Salmonella enterica

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; EPIDEMIC; EXPOSURE; FEMALE; FOOD SAFETY; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; HYPOTHESIS; INFANT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MICROWAVE COOKING; NONHUMAN; QUESTIONNAIRE; REVIEW; SALMONELLA ENTERICA; TYPHOID FEVER; VERY ELDERLY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BEEF; BLOODY DIARRHEA; CASE FINDING; CHICKEN MEAT; FOOD; FOOD ANALYSIS; FOOD POISONING; INTERVIEW; MORTALITY; POT PIE; PRODUCT SAFETY; SEROTYPE; TURKEY (BIRD);

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COOKING; DATA COLLECTION; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; FEMALE; FOOD LABELING; FOOD SAFETY; FROZEN FOODS; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PUBLIC HEALTH; SALMONELLA ENTERICA; SALMONELLA FOOD POISONING; UNITED STATES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84897104975     PISSN: 09502688     EISSN: 14694409     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0950268813001787     Document Type: Review

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