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Cholera outbreak in Homa Bay County, Kenya, 2015

Cholera is among the re-emerging diseases in Kenya. Beginning in December 2014, a persistent outbreak occurred involving 29 out of the 47 countries. Homa Bay County in Western Kenya was among the first counties to report cholera cases from January to April 2015. This case study is based on an outbre...

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Autores principales:	Githuku, Jane Njoki, Boru, Waqo Gufu, Hall, Casey Daniel, Gura, Zeinab, Oyugi, Elvis, Kishimba, Rogath Saika, Semali, Innocent, Farhat, Ghada Nadim, Mattie Park, Meeyoung
Formato:	Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:	English
Publicado:	The African Field Epidemiology Network 2017
Materias:	Case Study
Acceso en línea:	https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5500938/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28721168 http://dx.doi.org/10.11604/pamj.supp.2017.27.1.12563

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