Ongoing outbreak of invasive listeriosis due to serotype 1/2a Listeria monocytogenes, Ancona province, Italy, January 2015 to February 2016

Eurosurveillance

Volumn 21, Issue 17, 2016, Pages

  Marini, E ^a   Magi, G ^a   Vincenzi, C ^a   Manso, E ^b   Facinelli, Bruna ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÀ POLITECNICA DELLE MARCHE   (Italy)

^b Department of Maxillofacial Surgery   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPICILLIN; COTRIMOXAZOLE; ERYTHROMYCIN; MEROPENEM;

ADULT; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BASE PAIRING; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DIABETES MELLITUS; ENTEROBACTERIAL REPETITIVE INTERGENIC CONSENSUS PCR; FEMALE; FOOD CONTAMINATION; HUMAN; ITALY; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; LISTERIOSIS; MALE; MENINGITIS; MENINGOENCEPHALITIS; MOLECULAR TYPING; MULTIPLEX POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; NEOPLASM; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; SEPTICEMIA; SEROTYPE; AGED; CLASSIFICATION; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; EPIDEMIOLOGY; IMMUNOLOGY; INCIDENCE; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; RISK FACTOR; SEROTYPING; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; SURVIVAL RATE; VERY ELDERLY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; ITALY; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; LISTERIOSIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RISK FACTORS; SEROEPIDEMIOLOGIC STUDIES; SEROTYPING; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 85015356207     PISSN: 1025496X     EISSN: 15607917     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2807/1560-7917.ES.2016.21.17.30217     Document Type: Article

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