Salmonella Typhimurium: experiences from recent European outbreaks

Euro Surveill. 2008 Oct 30;13(44):pii: 19019.

Abstract

In this week s issue of Eurosurveillance, four European countries present recent outbreaks of Salmonella Typhimurium. The articles present a variety of innovative outbreak investigation methods, in particular molecular subtyping which permits to compare strains within and between countries.

Publication types

  • Editorial
  • Introductory Journal Article

MeSH terms

  • Case-Control Studies
  • Disease Outbreaks / statistics & numerical data*
  • Europe / epidemiology
  • Food Contamination / statistics & numerical data*
  • Humans
  • Population Surveillance*
  • Salmonella Food Poisoning / epidemiology*
  • Salmonella Food Poisoning / microbiology*
  • Salmonella typhimurium / isolation & purification*