Large outbreak of Salmonella Tompson related to smoked salmon in the Netherlands, August to December 2012

Eurosurveillance

Volumn 19, Issue 39, 2014, Pages

  Friesema, I ^a   de Jong, A ^b   Hofhuis, A ^a   Heck, M ^a   van den Kerkhof, H ^a   de Jonge, R ^a   Hameryck, D ^b   Nagel, K ^b   van Vilsteren, G ^b   van Beek, P ^a   Notermans, D ^a   Van Pelt, W ^a  

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

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

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CHILD; DIARRHEA; FEMALE; FEVER; FOOD ANALYSIS; GASTROENTERITIS; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INFANT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NAUSEA AND VOMITING; NETHERLANDS; NEWBORN; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; QUESTIONNAIRE; RECTUM HEMORRHAGE; RISK FACTOR; SALMON; SALMONELLA; SALMONELLA ENTERICA; SALMONELLA THOMPSON; SALMONELLOSIS; TREMOR; VERY ELDERLY;

EID: 84907855713     PISSN: 1025496X     EISSN: 15607917     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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