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Descriptive characterization of the 2010 cholera outbreak in Nigeria

BACKGROUND: In 2010, 18 States of Nigeria reported cholera outbreaks with a total of 41,787 cases including 1,716 deaths (case-fatality rate [CFR]: 4.1%). This exceeded the mean overall CFR of 2.4% reported in Africa from 2000–2005 and the WHO acceptable rate of 1%. We conducted a descriptive analys...

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Autores principales: Dalhat, Mahmood Muazu, Isa, Aisha Nasiru, Nguku, Patrick, Nasir, Sani-Gwarzo, Urban, Katharina, Abdulaziz, Mohammed, Dankoli, Raymond Salanga, Nsubuga, Peter, Poggensee, Gabriele
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2014
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4240818/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25399402
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2458-14-1167