Endemic and epidemic dynamics of cholera: The role of the aquatic reservoir

BMC Infectious Diseases

Volumn 1, Issue , 2001, Pages

  Torres Codeço, Cláudia ^a  

^a INSTITUTO OSWALDO CRUZ   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AQUATIC ENVIRONMENT; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; CHOLERA; CONTROLLED STUDY; DROUGHT; ENDEMIC DISEASE; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; ENVIRONMENTAL SANITATION; ENVIRONMENTAL TEMPERATURE; EPIDEMIC; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL DATA; FLOODING; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; PREVALENCE; SEASONAL VARIATION; SOCIAL ASPECT; VIBRIO CHOLERAE; ZOONOSIS;

EID: 2942619997     PISSN: 14712334     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2334-1-1     Document Type: Article

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