Cholera epidemic associated with consumption of unsafe drinking water and street-vended water-Eastern Freetown, Sierra Leone, 2012

American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

Volumn 90, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 518-523

  Von Nguyen, D ^a   Sreenivasan, Nandini ^a   Lam, Eugene ^b   Ayers, Tracy ^a   Kargbo, David ^b   Dafae, Foday ^b   Jambai, Amara ^b   Alemu, Wondimagegnehu ^c   Kamara, Abdul ^b   Islam, M Sirajul ^d   Stroika, Steven ^a   Bopp, Cheryl ^a   Quick, Robert ^a   Mintz, Eric D ^a   Brunkard, Joan M ^a  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR EMERGING AND ZOONOTIC INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

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

^c WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION   (Switzerland)

^d INTERNATIONAL CENTRE FOR DIARRHOEAL DISEASE RESEARCH   (Bangladesh)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHOLERA TOXIN; CIPROFLOXACIN; COTRIMOXAZOLE; DOXYCYCLINE; DRINKING WATER; INFUSION FLUID; NALIDIXIC ACID; TETRACYCLINE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANGOLA; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BANGLADESH; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CHILD; CHLORINATION; CHOLERA; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRAB; DEHYDRATION; EPIDEMIC; FECES ANALYSIS; FECES CULTURE; FEMALE; FEVER; FLUID INTAKE; GUINEA-BISSAU; HEALTH EDUCATION; HOUSEHOLD; HUMAN; INDIA; INFECTION PREVENTION; INFECTION RISK; INFECTIOUS DIARRHEA; INTRAVENOUS ADMINISTRATION; KENYA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NAUSEA AND VOMITING; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PUBLIC HEALTH; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; RISK FACTOR; SCHOOL CHILD; SIERRA LEONE; TANZANIA; TOGO; UNCONSCIOUSNESS; VIBRIO CHOLERAE; WATER QUALITY; WATER SUPPLY; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANIMALS; BRACHYURA; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CHOLERA; DRINKING WATER; EATING; EPIDEMICS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RISK FACTORS; SHELLFISH; SIERRA LEONE; VIBRIO CHOLERAE; WATER SUPPLY; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84896086678     PISSN: 00029637     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4269/ajtmh.13-0567     Document Type: Article

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