The Haitian cholera epidemic: Is searching for its origin only a matter of scientific curiosity?

Clinical Microbiology and Infection

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 479-480

  Faucher, B ^a,b   Piarroux, R ^a,b  

^a AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITY   (France)

^b ASSISTANCE PUBLIQUE HÔPITAUX DE MARSEILLE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHOLERA; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; EDITORIAL; EPIDEMIC; HAITI; HUMAN; HYPOTHESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 79952727646     PISSN: 1198743X     EISSN: 14690691     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-0691.2011.03476.x     Document Type: Editorial

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