A cholera epidemic in a rural area of Northeast India

Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

Volumn 98, Issue 9, 2004, Pages 563-566

  Phukan, A C ^a   Borah, P K ^a   Biswas, D ^a   Mahanta, J ^a  

^a INDIAN COUNCIL OF MEDICAL RESEARCH   (India)

Author keywords

Acute diarrhoea; Cholera; El Tor Ogawa; India; Vibrio cholerae; Vibrio cholerae O1

Indexed keywords

AMIKACIN; AMPICILLIN; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; CEFALEXIN; CIPROFLOXACIN; COTRIMOXAZOLE; FURAZOLIDONE; GENTAMICIN; NORFLOXACIN; TETRACYCLINE;

ACUTE DIARRHEA; ADULT; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; BACTERIUM TRANSDUCTION; CHILD; CHOLERA; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL SANITATION; EPIDEMIC; FATALITY; FEMALE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INDIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORBIDITY; PATHOGENESIS; PERSONAL HYGIENE; RURAL AREA; VIBRIO CHOLERAE;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANTI-INFECTIVE AGENTS; CHILD; CHOLERA; DIARRHEA; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; FECES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INDIA; MALE; RURAL HEALTH; VIBRIO CHOLERAE O1;

TOR; VIBRIO; VIBRIO CHOLERAE;

EID: 3342897673     PISSN: 00359203     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.trstmh.2004.01.002     Document Type: Article

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