A cholera outbreak associated with drinking contaminated well water

Archives of Iranian Medicine

Volumn 14, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 339-340

  Ranjbar, Reza ^a   Rahbar, Mohammad ^b   Naghoni, Ali ^c   Farshad, Shohreh ^d   Davari, Amin ^a   Shahcheraghi, Fereshteh ^e  

^a BAQIYATALLAH UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^b Iranian Reference Health Laboratory   (Iran)

^c ISLAMIC AZAD UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

^d SHIRAZ UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^e PASTEUR INSTITUTE OF IRAN   (Iran)

Author keywords

Cholera; Outbreak; Well water

Indexed keywords

DRINKING WATER; WELL WATER;

ACUTE DIARRHEA; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM CULTURE; CHILD; CHOLERA; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; ENTEROBACTERIAL REPETITIVE INTERGENIC CONSENSUS POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; EPIDEMIC; FEMALE; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HUMAN; MALE; MICROBIOLOGICAL EXAMINATION; OUTPATIENT; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; SCHOOL CHILD; SEROTYPE; VIBRIO CHOLERAE; WATER CONTAMINATION; WATER SAMPLING;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CHOLERA; DIARRHEA; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; DRINKING; FEMALE; HEALTH EDUCATION; HEALTH SERVICES NEEDS AND DEMAND; HUMANS; IRAN; MALE; SEROTYPING; VIBRIO CHOLERAE; WATER MICROBIOLOGY; WATER POLLUTION; WATER SUPPLY;

EID: 80052994528     PISSN: 10292977     EISSN: 17353947     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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