International outbreak of Salmonella Oranienburg due to German chocolate.

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Published in BMC Infect Dis on February 03, 2005

Authors

Dirk Werber1, Johannes Dreesman, Fabian Feil, Ulrich van Treeck, Gerhard Fell, Steen Ethelberg, Anja M Hauri, Peter Roggentin, Rita Prager, Ian S T Fisher, Susanne C Behnke, Edda Bartelt, Ekkehard Weise, Andrea Ellis, Anja Siitonen, Yvonne Andersson, Helmut Tschäpe, Michael H Kramer, Andrea Ammon

Author Affiliations

1: Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology, Robert Koch-Institut, Berlin, Germany. Dirk.Werber@nphs.wales.nhs.uk

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