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Cholera in the time of war: implications of weak surveillance in Syria for the WHO's preparedness—a comparison of two monitoring systems

BACKGROUND: Public health breakdown from the Syrian government's targeting of healthcare systems in politically unsympathetic areas has yielded a resurgence of infectious diseases. Suspected cholera recently reappeared but conflict-related constraints impede laboratory confirmation. Given the g...

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Autores principales: Sparrow, Annie, Almilaji, Khaled, Tajaldin, Bachir, Teodoro, Nicholas, Langton, Paul
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BMJ Publishing Group 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5321343/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28588951
http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjgh-2016-000029