Was the increase in culture-confirmed Campylobacter infections in Denmark during the 1990s a surveillance artefact?

Eurosurveillance

Volumn 20, Issue 41, 2015, Pages

  Emborg, Hanne Dorthe ^a   Teunis, P ^b   Simonsen, J ^a   Krogfelt, K A ^a   Jorgensen C S ^a   Takkinen, J ^c   Molbak K ^a  

^a STATENS SERUM INSTITUT   (Denmark)

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

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN A; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M; BACTERIUM ANTIBODY; IMMUNOGLOBULIN;

ADULT; AGED; ANTIBODY RESPONSE; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BLOOD SAMPLING; CAMPYLOBACTER ENTERITIS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; POPULATION RESEARCH; SEROLOGY; ARTIFACT; BLOOD; CAMPYLOBACTER; CAMPYLOBACTER INFECTIONS; DENMARK; IMMUNOLOGY; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MIDDLE AGED; NONPARAMETRIC TEST;

ADULT; AGED; ANTIBODIES, BACTERIAL; ARTIFACTS; CAMPYLOBACTER; CAMPYLOBACTER INFECTIONS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DENMARK; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN A; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M; IMMUNOGLOBULINS; INCIDENCE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SEROEPIDEMIOLOGIC STUDIES; SEROLOGIC TESTS; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC;

EID: 84965092932     PISSN: 1025496X     EISSN: 15607917     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2807/1560-7917.ES.2015.20.41.30041     Document Type: Article

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