A typhoid fever outbreak in a slum of South Dumdum municipality, West Bengal, India, 2007: Evidence for foodborne and waterborne transmission

BACKGROUND: In April 2007, a slum of South Dumdum municipality, West Bengal reported an increase in fever cases. We investigated to identify the agent, the source and to propose recommendations. METHODS: We defined a suspected case of typhoid fever as occurrence of fever for ≥ one week among residen...

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Autores principales: Bhunia, Rama, Hutin, Yvan, Ramakrishnan, Ramachandran, Pal, Nishith, Sen, Tapas, Murhekar, Manoj
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2009
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2683821/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19397806
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2458-9-115

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2683821/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19397806
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2458-9-115

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