Epidemic cholera in urban Zambia: Hand soap and dried fish as protective factors

Epidemiology and Infection

Volumn 134, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 1226-1230

  Dubois, A E ^a   Sinkala, M ^b   Kalluri, P ^a   Makasa Chikoya, M ^b   Quick, R E ^a  

^a CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

^b Lusaka District Health Management Team   (Zambia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; CHLORAMPHENICOL; CIPROFLOXACIN; COTRIMOXAZOLE; FURAZOLIDONE; NALIDIXIC ACID; ORAL REHYDRATION SOLUTION; TETRACYCLINE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL TRANSMISSION; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CHILD; CHOLERA; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPIDEMIC; FATALITY; FEMALE; FOOD CONTAMINATION; HAND WASHING; HUMAN; INFECTION CONTROL; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NONHUMAN; VEGETABLE; VIBRIO CHOLERAE; ZAMBIA;

CHOLERA; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; FOOD HANDLING; HANDWASHING; HUMANS; HYGIENE; RISK FACTORS; SOAPS; WATER SUPPLY; ZAMBIA;

EID: 33750357090     PISSN: 09502688     EISSN: 14694409     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0950268806006273     Document Type: Article

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