First do no harm: Making oral rehydration solution safer in a cholera epidemic

American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

Volumn 60, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 1051-1055

  Daniels, Nicholas A ^a   Simons, Shauna L ^a   Rodrigues, Amabelia ^a   Gunnlaugsson, Geir ^a,b   Forster, Terri S ^a   Wells, Joy G ^a   Hutwagner, Lori ^a   Tauxe, Robert V ^a   Mintz, Eric D ^a  

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

^b UPPSALA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BLEACHING AGENT; ORAL REHYDRATION SOLUTION;

ARTICLE; CHOLERA; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COLIFORM BACTERIUM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIARRHEA; ESCHERICHIA COLI; HUMAN; VIBRIO CHOLERAE; WATER TREATMENT;

EID: 0033026344     PISSN: 00029637     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4269/ajtmh.1999.60.1051     Document Type: Article

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