Epidemic investigation of the jaundice outbreak in Girdharnagar, Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India, 2008

Indian Journal of Community Medicine

Volumn 35, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 294-297

  Chauhan, Naresh T ^a   Prajapati, Prakash ^a   Trivedi, Atul V ^a   Bhagyalaxmi, A ^a  

^a B J MEDICAL COLLEGE   (India)

Author keywords

Ahmedabad; epidemic investigation; hepatitis E; jaundice; outbreaks

Indexed keywords

EID: 77955320873     PISSN: 09700218     EISSN: 19983581     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4103/0970-0218.66864     Document Type: Article

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