Infectious dose of listeria monocytogenes in outbreak linked to ice cream, United States, 2015

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 22, Issue 12, 2016, Pages 2113-2119

  Pouillot, Régis ^a   Klontz, Karl C ^a   Chen, Yi ^a   Burall, Laurel S ^a   Macarisin, Dumitru ^a   Doyle, Matthew ^a   Bally, Kären M ^b   Strain, Errol ^a   Datta, Atin R ^a   Hammack, Thomas S ^a   Van Doren, Jane M ^a  

^a CENTER FOR DRUG EVALUATION AND RESEARCH   (United States)

^b Via Christi Hospitals ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; BACTERIAL LOAD; EPIDEMIC; FOOD CONTAMINATION; FOOD CONTROL; FOOD POISONING; HEALTH SURVEY; HISTORY; HUMAN; ICE CREAM; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; LISTERIOSIS; MICROBIOLOGY; TRANSMISSION; UNITED STATES; VERY ELDERLY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BACTERIAL LOAD; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; FOOD CONTAMINATION; FOOD MICROBIOLOGY; FOODBORNE DISEASES; HISTORY, 21ST CENTURY; HUMANS; ICE CREAM; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; LISTERIOSIS; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84995947077     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: 10806059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid2212.160165     Document Type: Article

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