Seasonal cholera from multiple small outbreaks, rural Bangladesh

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 14, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 831-833

  Stine, O Colin ^a   Alam, Munirul ^b   Tang, Li ^a   Nair, G Balakrish ^b   Siddique, A Kasem ^b   Faruque, Shah M ^b   Huq, Anwar ^c   Colwell, Rita ^a,d   Sack, R Bradley ^d   J Glenn Jr , Morris ^a,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b INTERNATIONAL CENTRE FOR DIARRHOEAL DISEASE RESEARCH   (Bangladesh)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^d JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BANGLADESH; CHOLERA; EPIDEMIC; HUMAN; MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY; NONHUMAN; RURAL AREA; SEASONAL VARIATION; VARIABLE NUMBER OF TANDEM REPEAT; VIBRIO CHOLERAE;

EID: 45249101579     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: 10806059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid1405.071116     Document Type: Article

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