Use of Population-based Surveillance to Define the High Incidence of Shigellosis in an Urban Slum in Nairobi, Kenya

BACKGROUND: Worldwide, Shigella causes an estimated 160 million infections and >1 million deaths annually. However, limited incidence data are available from African urban slums. We investigated the epidemiology of shigellosis and drug susceptibility patterns within a densely populated urban sett...

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Autores principales: Njuguna, Henry N., Cosmas, Leonard, Williamson, John, Nyachieo, Dhillon, Olack, Beatrice, Ochieng, John B., Wamola, Newton, Oundo, Joseph O., Feikin, Daniel R., Mintz, Eric D., Breiman, Robert F.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2013
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3591331/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23505506
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0058437

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3591331/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23505506
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0058437

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