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More than 20 years after re-emerging in the 1990s, diphtheria remains a public health problem in Latvia

In 1994, the World Health Organization (WHO) declared the goal of eliminating diphtheria within the WHO European Region by the year 2000. However, in 1990 an epidemic emerged within the Russian Federation and spread to other countries, including Latvia, by 1994. We describe national surveillance and...

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Autores principales: Kantsone, Ieva, Lucenko, Irina, Perevoscikovs, Jurijs
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5388112/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27934582
http://dx.doi.org/10.2807/1560-7917.ES.2016.21.48.30414