Epidemic cholera in Burundi: Patterns of transmission in the Great Rift Valley Lake region

Lancet

Volumn 349, Issue 9057, 1997, Pages 981-985

  Birmingham, Maureen E ^a   Lee, Lisa A ^a   Ndayimirije, Nestor ^c   Nkurikiye, Serge ^c   Hersh, Bradley S ^a   Wells, Joy G ^b   Deming, Michael S ^a  

^a CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

^b NATIONAL CENTER FOR EMERGING AND ZOONOTIC INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

^c Ministry of Public Health   (Burundi)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DRINKING WATER;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; BIOTYPOLOGY; BURUNDI; CHILD; CHOLERA; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; DRINKING; EPIDEMIC; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HUMAN; LAKE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; SEROTYPE; SWIMMING; VIBRIO CHOLERAE; WATER QUALITY;

EID: 0030977210     PISSN: 01406736     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(96)08478-4     Document Type: Article

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