A typhoid fever outbreak in a slum of South Dumdum municipality, West Bengal, India, 2007: Evidence for foodborne and waterborne transmission

BMC Public Health

Volumn 9, Issue , 2009, Pages

  Bhunia, Rama ^a,b   Hutin, Yvan ^a,c   Ramakrishnan, Ramachandran ^a   Pal, Nishith ^d   Sen, Tapas ^b   Murhekar, Manoj ^a  

^a INDIAN COUNCIL OF MEDICAL RESEARCH   (India)

^b Department of Health and Family Welfare ^*  (India)

^c WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION   (Switzerland)

^d CALCUTTA SCHOOL OF TROPICAL MEDICINE   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

WATER;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL TRANSMISSION; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; BLOOD SAMPLING; CHILD; CHLORINATION; CONTROL GROUP; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; EATING; ENVIRONMENT; EPIDEMIC; FECES; FEMALE; FLUID INTAKE; FOOD; FOOD HANDLING; GOVERNMENT; GROUPS BY AGE; HEALTH CARE FACILITY; HEALTH EDUCATION; HUMAN; INDIA; INFANT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MILK; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PIPELINE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; SALMONELLA TYPHI; SCHOOL CHILD; SEWER; TYPHOID FEVER; WATER CONTAMINATION; WATER SUPPLY; BLOOD; CASE CONTROL STUDY; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; FOOD CONTROL; HYGIENE; METHODOLOGY; MICROBIOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; NEWBORN; PATHOGENICITY; POVERTY; SANITATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; FEMALE; FOOD MICROBIOLOGY; HUMANS; HYGIENE; INDIA; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POVERTY AREAS; SALMONELLA TYPHI; SANITATION; TYPHOID FEVER; WATER MICROBIOLOGY; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 66149089855     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712458     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2458-9-115     Document Type: Article

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