Cross-border cholera outbreaks in Sub-Saharan Africa, the mystery behind the silent illness: What needs to be done?

PLoS ONE

Volumn 11, Issue 6, 2016, Pages

  Bwire, Godfrey ^a   Mwesawina, Maurice ^b   Baluku, Yosia ^c   Kanyanda, Setiala S E ^b   Orach, Christopher Garimoi ^d  

^a MINISTRY OF HEALTH   (Uganda)

^b MINISTRY OF HEALTH   (Malawi)

^c Bwera Hospital   (Uganda)

^d MAKERERE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (Uganda)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFRICA SOUTH OF THE SAHARA; AGE; ARTICLE; CHILD; CHOLERA; CONGO; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE CONTROL; EPIDEMIC; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL DATA; FEMALE; FLOODING; GOVERNMENT; HUMAN; HYGIENE; INFANT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALAWI; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MIGRATION; MORTALITY; MOZAMBIQUE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; SANITATION; SCHOOL CHILD; UGANDA; WATER CONTAMINATION; YOUNG ADULT; DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC CONGO; GEOGRAPHY; NEWBORN; PUBLIC HEALTH;

CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CHOLERA; DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF THE CONGO; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHY; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALAWI; MALE; MOZAMBIQUE; PUBLIC HEALTH; UGANDA;

EID: 84974805116     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0156674     Document Type: Article

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