Geographic Distribution and Mortality Risk Factors during the Cholera Outbreak in a Rural Region of Haiti, 2010-2011

PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2015, Pages

  Page, Anne Laure ^a   Ciglenecki, Iza ^b   Jasmin, Ernest Robert ^c   Desvignes, Laurence ^b   Grandesso, Francesco ^a   Polonsky, Jonathan ^a   Nicholas, Sarala ^a   Alberti, Kathryn P ^a   Porten, Klaudia ^a   Luquero, Francisco J ^a  

^a EPICENTRE   (France)

^b MÉDECINS SANS FRONTIÈRES   (Switzerland)

^c Programme Nationale de Lutte Contre la Tuberculose   (Haïti)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CHILD; CHOLERA; CONSCIOUSNESS DISORDER; DIARRHEA; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HAITI; HEALTH SURVEY; HELP SEEKING BEHAVIOR; HOUSEHOLD; HUMAN; LETHARGY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATHOGEN LOAD; QUESTIONNAIRE; RISK FACTOR; VOMITING; COMPLICATION; EPIDEMIC; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HISTORY; INCIDENCE; MEDICAL GEOGRAPHY; RURAL POPULATION;

CHOLERA; DIARRHEA; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; GEOGRAPHY, MEDICAL; HAITI; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HISTORY, 21ST CENTURY; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; RISK FACTORS; RURAL POPULATION; SURVEYS AND QUESTIONNAIRES;

EID: 84928799212     PISSN: 19352727     EISSN: 19352735     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0003605     Document Type: Article

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