Timeliness of surveillance during outbreak of Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli infection, Germany, 2011

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 17, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 1906-1909

  Altmann, Mathias ^a   Wadl, Maria ^a   Altmann, Doris ^a   Benzler, Justus ^a   Eckmanns, Tim ^a   Krause, Gérard ^a   Spode, Anke ^b   An der Heiden, Matthias ^a  

^a ROBERT KOCH INSTITUTE   (Germany)

^b Health Department of the Hamburg   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL TRANSMISSION; BLOODY DIARRHEA; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CORRELATIONAL STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE DURATION; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; EPIDEMIC; ESCHERICHIA COLI INFECTION; GERMANY; HEMOLYTIC UREMIC SYNDROME; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NONHUMAN; PUBLIC HEALTH; QUANTITATIVE STUDY; SHIGA TOXIN PRODUCING ESCHERICHIA COLI;

DISEASE NOTIFICATION; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; ESCHERICHIA COLI INFECTIONS; GERMANY; HEMOLYTIC-UREMIC SYNDROME; HUMANS; SHIGA-TOXIGENIC ESCHERICHIA COLI; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84930479675     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: 10806059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid1710.111027     Document Type: Article

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