Epidemiological and laboratory investigations of outbreaks of diarrhoea in rural South India: Implications for control of disease

Epidemiology and Infection

Volumn 127, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 107-112

  Kang, G ^a   Ramakrishna, B S ^a   Daniel, J ^a   Mathan, M ^a   Mathan, V I ^a  

^a CHRISTIAN MEDICAL COLLEGE   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RAIN; SHIGA TOXIN; WELL WATER;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CHILD; CLINICAL RESEARCH; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEFECATION; DIARRHEA; DISEASE CARRIER; DISEASE DURATION; DISINFECTION; EPIDEMIC; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FECES ANALYSIS; HUMAN; INDIA; INFECTION CONTROL; LABORATORY TEST; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PATHOGENICITY; POPULATION RESEARCH; RURAL AREA; SHIGELLA; SYMPTOM; WATER CONTAMINATION; WATER TREATMENT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DIARRHEA; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; EPIDEMIOLOGIC METHODS; FECES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INDIA; MALE; RURAL POPULATION; WATER MICROBIOLOGY;

EID: 0034839468     PISSN: 09502688     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0950268801005799     Document Type: Article

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