Social ecological analysis of an outbreak of pufferfish egg poisoning in a coastal area of Bangladesh

American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

Volumn 85, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 498-503

  Islam, M Saiful ^a   Luby, Stephen P ^b   Rahman, Mahmudur ^c   Parveen, Shahana ^a   Homaira, Nusrat ^d   Begum, Nur Har ^e   Khan, A K M Dawlat ^a   Sultana, Rebeca ^a   Akhter, Shammi ^e   Gurley, Emily S ^a  

^a INTERNATIONAL CENTRE FOR DIARRHOEAL DISEASE RESEARCH   (Bangladesh)

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

^c Institute of Epidemiology Disease Control and Research   (Bangladesh)

^d Health System and Infectious Disease Division   (Bangladesh)

^e Institute of Epidemiology Disease Control and Research   (Bangladesh)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; BANGLADESH; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DEMOGRAPHY; DIARRHEA; EGG; EPIDEMIC; FEMALE; FOOD INTAKE; FOOD POISONING; FOOD PROCESSING; HUMAN; LOWEST INCOME GROUP; MALE; MORTALITY; PARESIS; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PUFFER FISH; RISK FACTOR; SCHOOL CHILD; SEASHORE; SKIN TINGLING; SOCIOECONOMICS; VOMITING;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANIMALS; ATROPINE; BANGLADESH; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; FEMALE; FISHES, POISONOUS; FOOD; FOOD CONTAMINATION; FOODBORNE DISEASES; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; NEOSTIGMINE; OVUM; TETRAODONTIFORMES;

TETRAODONTIDAE;

EID: 80052808517     PISSN: 00029637     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4269/ajtmh.2011.10-0629     Document Type: Article

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