Outbreak of Escherichia coli O157 in Sweden

T Ziese; Y Anderson; B de Jong; S Löfdahl; M Ramberg

doi:10.2807/esm.01.01.00135-en

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Outbreak of Escherichia coli O157 in Sweden
T Ziese¹ , Y Anderson¹ , B de Jong¹ , S Löfdahl¹ , M Ramberg¹
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Affiliations: ¹ Swedish Institute for Infectious Disease Control, Department of Epidemiology, Stockholm, Sweden

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Citation style for this article: Ziese T, Anderson Y, de Jong B, Löfdahl S, Ramberg M. Outbreak of Escherichia coli O157 in Sweden. Euro Surveill. 1996;1(1):pii=135. https://doi.org/10.2807/esm.01.01.00135-en

Abstract

The Swedish Institute for Infectious Disease Control (Smittskyddsinstitutet - SMI) received no more than three reports of enterohaemorrhagic E. coli O157 infections (EHEC) each year from 1988 to 1994. About half of these were due to E. coli O157. In July