Cholera outbreak in southern Tanzania: risk factors and patterns of transmission.

To identify risk factors and describe the pattern of spread of the 1997 cholera epidemic in a rural area (Ifakara) in southern Tanzania, we conducted a prospective hospital-based, matched case- control study, with analysis based on the first 180 cases and 360 matched controls. Bathing in the river,...

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Autores principales: Acosta, C J, Galindo, C M, Kimario, J, Senkoro, K, Urassa, H, Casals, C, Corachán, M, Eseko, N, Tanner, M, Mshinda, H, Lwilla, F, Vila, J, Alonso, P L
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 2001
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2631835/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11485679

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