Narrow-mouthed water storage vessels and in situ chlorination in a Bolivian community: A simple method to improve drinking water quality

American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

Volumn 54, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 511-516

  Quick, Robert E ^a   Venczel, Linda V ^b   Gonzalez, Oscar ^c   Mintz, Eric D ^a   Highsmith, Anita K ^d   Espada, Angelica ^e   Damiani, Esther ^e   Bean, Nancy H ^a   De Hannover, Erika H ^e   Tauxe, Robert V ^a  

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

^b IL   (United States)

^c CCH   (Bolivia)

^d NATL CENTER FOR INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

^e Instituto Nacional de Laboratorios de Salud Bolivia   (Bolivia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISINFECTANT AGENT; DRINKING WATER;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COUNT; BOLIVIA; CHILD; CHLORINATION; CHOLERA; CLINICAL TRIAL; COLIFORM BACTERIUM; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; DISINFECTION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFANT; MALE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SANITATION; WATER QUALITY;

EID: 9344221122     PISSN: 00029637     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4269/ajtmh.1996.54.511     Document Type: Article

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