Two sequential outbreaks in two villages illustrate the various modes of transmission of cholera

Epidemiology and Infection

Volumn 137, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 906-912

  Das, A ^a,c   Manickam, P ^a   Hutin, Y ^a   Pattanaik, B ^a   Pal, B B ^b   Chhotray, G P ^b   Kar, S K ^b   Gupte, M D ^a  

^a INDIAN COUNCIL OF MEDICAL RESEARCH   (India)

^b REGIONAL MEDICAL RESEARCH CENTRE ICMR   (India)

^c Orissa State AIDS Control Society   (India)

Author keywords

Food safety; Gastroenteritis; Outbreaks

Indexed keywords

DRINKING WATER; WELL WATER;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CHILD; CHOLERA; CONTROLLED STUDY; DAIRY PRODUCT; DESCRIPTIVE RESEARCH; DIARRHEA; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; EPIDEMIC; FECES ANALYSIS; FEMALE; FOOD CONTAMINATION; FOOD INTAKE; HOUSEHOLD; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INDIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MICROBIAL CONTAMINATION; MORTALITY; NONHUMAN; VIBRIO CHOLERAE; WATER CONTAMINATION; ANIMAL; CATTLE; CLASSIFICATION; INFANT; MICROBIOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; MILK; PRESCHOOL CHILD; TIME;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANIMALS; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CATTLE; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CHOLERA; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INDIA; INFANT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MILK; TIME FACTORS; VIBRIO CHOLERAE; WATER MICROBIOLOGY; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 67649787360     PISSN: 09502688     EISSN: 14694409     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0950268808001611     Document Type: Article

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