Cholera ante portas - The re-emergence of cholera in Kinshasa after a ten-year hiatus

PLoS Currents

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages

  Bompangue, Didier ^a,b   Vesenbeckh, Silvan Manuel ^c,d   Giraudoux, Patrick ^a   Castro, Marcia ^c   Muyembe, Jean Jacques ^b   Ilunga, Benoit Kebela ^d   Murray, Megan ^e  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE FRANCHE COMTÉ   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KINSHASA   (Congo)

^c HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^d BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^e Ministry of Public Health   (Congo)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHLORAMPHENICOL; FURAZOLIDONE; NALIDIXIC ACID; STREPTOMYCIN; RAIN; SULFAFURAZOLE; TRIMETHOPRIM SULFATE;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; CHOLERA; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; HUMAN; PREDICTION; SEROTYPE; VIBRIO CHOLERAE; CLIMATE CHANGE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; EPIDEMIC; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; POPULATION DENSITY; RISK FACTOR;

EID: 84867440939     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21573999     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/currents.RRN1310     Document Type: Article

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