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Volume 22, Number 12—December 2016
Research

Infectious Dose of Listeria monocytogenes in Outbreak Linked to Ice Cream, United States, 2015

Régis PouillotComments to Author , Karl C. Klontz, Yi Chen, Laurel S. Burall, Dumitru Macarisin, Matthew Doyle, Kären M. Bally, Errol Strain, Atin R. Datta, Thomas S. Hammack, and Jane M. Van Doren
Author affiliations: Food and Drug Administration, College Park, Maryland, USA (R. Pouillot, K.C. Klontz, Y. Chen, D. Macarisin, M. Doyle, E. Strain, T.S. Hammack, J.M. Van Doren); Food and Drug Administration, Laurel, Maryland, USA (L.S. Burall, A.R. Datta); Via Christi Hospitals, Wichita, Kansas, USA (K.M. Bally)

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Timeline of listeriosis outbreak linked to ice cream, United States, 2015. A) Data for products produced in factory 1 (2); B) data for outbreak start and 4 case-patients at 1 hospital in Kansas.

Figure. Timeline of listeriosis outbreak linked to ice cream, United States, 2015. A) Data for products produced in factory 1 (2); B) data for outbreak start and 4 case-patients at 1 hospital in Kansas.

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