Outbreak of yersinia pseudotuberculosis o:1 infection associated with raw milk consumption, finland, spring 2014

Eurosurveillance

Volumn 20, Issue 40, 2015, Pages

  Parn T ^a,b   Hallanvuo, S ^c   Salmenlinna, S ^a   Pihlajasaari, A ^c   Heikkinen, S ^d   Telkki Nykanen H ^d   Hakkinen, M ^c   Ollgren, J ^a   Huusko, S ^a   Rimhanen Finne, Ruska ^a  

^a NATIONAL PUBLIC HEALTH INSTITUTE   (Finland)

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

^c NATL VET AND FOOD RES INSTITUTE   (Finland)

^d City of Porvoo   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ARTICLE; ASSESSMENT OF HUMANS; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEVER; FINLAND; HUMAN; MILK; NONHUMAN; RAW FOOD; YERSINIA PSEUDOTUBERCULOSIS; YERSINIA PSEUDOTUBERCULOSIS INFECTION; ADULT; ANIMAL; EPIDEMIC; FEMALE; FOOD CONTROL; FOOD HANDLING; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MALE; MICROBIOLOGY; ODDS RATIO; PROCEDURES; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; SEROTYPING; TANDEM REPEAT; TRANSMISSION; YERSINIA PSEUDOTUBERCULOSIS INFECTIONS;

ADULT; ANIMALS; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, PULSED-FIELD; FEMALE; FINLAND; FOOD HANDLING; FOOD MICROBIOLOGY; HUMANS; MALE; MILK; ODDS RATIO; SEROTYPING; TANDEM REPEAT SEQUENCES; YERSINIA PSEUDOTUBERCULOSIS; YERSINIA PSEUDOTUBERCULOSIS INFECTIONS;

EID: 85003049198     PISSN: 1025496X     EISSN: 15607917     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2807/1560-7917.ES.2015.20.40.30033     Document Type: Article

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