Title |
Serological cross-sectional studies on salmonella incidence in eight European countries: no correlation with incidence of reported cases
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Published in |
BMC Public Health, July 2012
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DOI | 10.1186/1471-2458-12-523 |
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Authors |
Gerhard Falkenhorst, Jacob Simonsen, Tina H Ceper, Wilfrid van Pelt, Henriette de Valk, Malgorzata Sadkowska-Todys, Lavinia Zota, Markku Kuusi, Cecilia Jernberg, Maria Cristina Rota, Yvonne THP van Duynhoven, Peter FM Teunis, Karen A Krogfelt, Kåre Mølbak |
Abstract |
Published incidence rates of human salmonella infections are mostly based on numbers of stool culture-confirmed cases reported to public health surveillance. These cases constitute only a small fraction of all cases occurring in the community. The extent of underascertainment is influenced by health care seeking behaviour and sensitivity of surveillance systems, so that reported incidence rates from different countries are not comparable. We performed serological cross-sectional studies to compare infection risks in eight European countries independent of underascertainment. |
X Demographics
Geographical breakdown
Country | Count | As % |
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Sweden | 2 | 29% |
United Kingdom | 1 | 14% |
United States | 1 | 14% |
Unknown | 3 | 43% |
Demographic breakdown
Type | Count | As % |
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Members of the public | 5 | 71% |
Practitioners (doctors, other healthcare professionals) | 2 | 29% |
Mendeley readers
Geographical breakdown
Country | Count | As % |
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United Kingdom | 1 | 2% |
Netherlands | 1 | 2% |
Denmark | 1 | 2% |
Belgium | 1 | 2% |
Unknown | 42 | 91% |
Demographic breakdown
Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
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Researcher | 14 | 30% |
Other | 5 | 11% |
Student > Ph. D. Student | 4 | 9% |
Professor | 3 | 7% |
Student > Doctoral Student | 3 | 7% |
Other | 7 | 15% |
Unknown | 10 | 22% |
Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
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Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 12 | 26% |
Medicine and Dentistry | 7 | 15% |
Immunology and Microbiology | 4 | 9% |
Nursing and Health Professions | 3 | 7% |
Mathematics | 2 | 4% |
Other | 7 | 15% |
Unknown | 11 | 24% |