A small outbreak of food poisoning among attendees of a public health thesis examination conference.
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Affiliations: 1. Department of Trauma and Orthopedic Surgery, Clinic of Surgery, Ernst Moritz Arndt University, Sauerbruchstrasse, 17489 Greifswald, Germany; 2. Clinic of Dermatology, Ernst Moritz Arndt University, Sauerbruchstrasse, 17489 Greifswald, Germany; 3. Emergency Hospital Berlin (ukb), Warener Straße 7, 12683 Berlin, Germany Address correspondence to Georg Daeschlein, MD, Clinic of Dermatology, Ernst Moritz Arndt University, Sauerbruchstrasse, 17489 Greifswald, Germany ([email protected]). Infect. Control Hosp. Epidemiol. 2015;36(10):1249–1250 © 2015 by The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America. All rights reserved. 0899-823X/2015/3610-0021. DOI: 10.1017/ice.2015.164
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ورودعنوان ژورنال:
- Infection control and hospital epidemiology
دوره 36 10 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2015