A large and persistent outbreak of typhoid fever caused by consuming contaminated water and street-vended beverages: Kampala, Uganda, January – June 2015

BACKGROUND: On 6 February 2015, Kampala city authorities alerted the Ugandan Ministry of Health of a “strange disease” that killed one person and sickened dozens. We conducted an epidemiologic investigation to identify the nature of the disease, mode of transmission, and risk factors to inform timel...

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Autores principales: Kabwama, Steven Ndugwa, Bulage, Lilian, Nsubuga, Fred, Pande, Gerald, Oguttu, David Were, Mafigiri, Richardson, Kihembo, Christine, Kwesiga, Benon, Masiira, Ben, Okullo, Allen Eva, Kajumbula, Henry, Matovu, Joseph, Makumbi, Issa, Wetaka, Milton, Kasozi, Sam, Kyazze, Simon, Dahlke, Melissa, Hughes, Peter, Sendagala, Juliet Nsimire, Musenero, Monica, Nabukenya, Immaculate, Hill, Vincent R., Mintz, Eric, Routh, Janell, Gómez, Gerardo, Bicknese, Amelia, Zhu, Bao-Ping
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2017
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5216563/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28056940
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12889-016-4002-0

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