title: An epidemiologic critique of current microbial risk assessment practices: the importance of prevalence and test accuracy data.
authors.affiliation: Department of Medicine and Epidemiology, School of Veterinary Medicine, University of California, Davis, California 95616, USA. iagardner@ucdavis.edu
authors.forename: Ian A
authors.initials: IA
authors.lastname: Gardner
mesh_terms: D001499:Bayes Theorem; D016021:Epidemiologic Studies; D005516:Food Microbiology; D006801:Humans; D016013:Likelihood Functions; D015995:Prevalence; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D018570:Risk Assessment / Q000592:standards* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D012680:Sensitivity and Specificity