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A city park as a potential epidemic site of scrub typhus: a case–control study of an outbreak in Guangzhou, China

BACKGROUND: Scrub typhus is an important public health problem in China, especially in Guangzhou city. Typical outbreaks of scrub typhus have been previously reported in rural areas, affecting mainly farmers. We describe an atypical outbreak of the disease with case fatalities, from a park in Haizhu...

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Autores principales: Wei, Yuehong, Luo, Lei, Jing, Qinlong, Li, Xiaoning, Huang, Yong, Xiao, Xincai, Liu, Lan, Wu, Xinwei, Yang, Zhicong
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/PMC4240828/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25403988
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13071-014-0513-7