Epidemiological investigation of an outbreak of acute diarrheal disease: A shoe leather epidemiology

Journal of Global Infectious Diseases

Volumn 3, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 361-365

  Patil, Sandip Bharat ^a   Deshmukh, Durgesh ^b   Dixit, J V ^a   Damle, A S ^b  

^a Department of Community Medicine ^*  (India)

^b GOVERNMENT MEDICAL COLLEGE   (India)

Author keywords

Construction workers; Diarrhea; Disease outbreak; Shoe leather epidemiology; Vibrio cholerae O1

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ACUTE DIARRHEA; ACUTE GASTROENTERITIS; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; CHILD; CHOLERA; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPIDEMIC; FECES ANALYSIS; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL MOTILITY; HUMAN; LOOSE FECES; MALE; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VIBRIO CHOLERAE; WATER SAMPLING;

EID: 84855181487     PISSN: 0974777X     EISSN: 09748245     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4103/0974-777X.91060     Document Type: Article

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