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Cholera ante portas – The re-emergence of cholera in Kinshasa after a ten-year hiatus
Background: Cholera is an endemic disease in certain well-defined areas in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). The west of the country, including the mega-city Kinshasa, has been free of cases since mid 2001 when the last outbreak ended. Methods and Findings: We used routinely collec...
Autores principales: | Bompangue, Didier, Vesenbeckh, Silvan Manuel, Giraudoux, Patrick, Castro, Marcia, Muyembe, Jean-Jacques, Kebela Ilunga, Benoît, Murray, Megan |
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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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Public Library of Science
2012
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3299488/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22453903 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/currents.RRN1310 |
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