Are ready-to-eat salads ready to eat? An outbreak of Salmonella Coeln linked to imported, mixed, pre-washed and bagged salad, Norway, November 2013
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عنوان ژورنال: Epidemiology and Infection
سال: 2015
ISSN: 0950-2688,1469-4409
DOI: 10.1017/s0950268815002769