Saving lives through global safe water

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 11, Issue 10, 2005, Pages 1636-1637

  Hughes, James M ^a,b,c   Koplan, Jeffrey P ^a,d  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DRINKING WATER; WATER;

DIARRHEA; EPIDEMIC; GLOBAL CHANGE; NOTE; PNEUMONIA; SANITATION; UNITED NATIONS; WATER CONTAMINATION; WATER INTOXICATION; WATER POLLUTION CONTROL; WATER QUALITY; WATER SUPPLY;

EID: 25644451282     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid1110.051099     Document Type: Note

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