Mortality rates during cholera Epidemic, Haiti, 2010-2011

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 22, Issue 3, 2016, Pages 410-416

  Luquero, Francisco J ^a   Rondy, Marc ^a   Boncy, Jacques ^b   Munger, André ^c   Mekaoui, Helmi ^c   Rymshaw, Ellen ^c   Page, Anne Laure ^a   Toure, Brahima ^a   Degail, Marie Amelie ^a   Nicolas, Sarala ^a   Grandesso, Francesco ^a   Ginsbourger, Maud ^a   Polonsky, Jonathan ^a   Alberti, Kathryn P ^a   Terzian, Mego ^c   Olson, David ^c   Porten, Klaudia ^a   Ciglenecki, Iza ^c  

^a EPICENTRE   (France)

^b Ministry of Health   (Haïti)

^c MÉDECINS SANS FRONTIÈRES   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CHILD; CHOLERA; DEATH; DIARRHEA; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; EPIDEMIC; FEMALE; HAITI; HEALTH SURVEY; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; MALE; MORTALITY RATE; QUESTIONNAIRE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; MORTALITY; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; YOUNG ADULT;

CHOLERA; EPIDEMICS; HAITI; HUMANS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURVEYS AND QUESTIONNAIRES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84958811408     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: 10806059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid2203.141970     Document Type: Article

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