Implications of the introduction of cholera to Haiti

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 17, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 1299-1300

  Dowell, Scott F ^a   Braden, Christopher R ^a  

^a CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DRINKING WATER;

ARTICLE; CHOLERA; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; HAITI; HUMAN; RIVER; SANITATION; TRAVEL; VIBRIO CHOLERAE; WATER CONTAMINATION; WATER TREATMENT;

CHOLERA; EPIDEMICS; HAITI; HUMANS; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; RESIDENTIAL MOBILITY; SANITATION; SEWAGE; TRAVEL; VIBRIO CHOLERAE;

EID: 79959869182     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: 10806059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid1707.110625     Document Type: Article

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