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Cholera outbreak caused by drinking contaminated water from a lakeshore water-collection site, Kasese District, south-western Uganda, June-July 2015

On 20 June 2015, a cholera outbreak affecting more than 30 people was reported in a fishing village, Katwe, in Kasese District, south-western Uganda. We investigated this outbreak to identify the mode of transmission and to recommend control measures. We defined a suspected case as onset of acute wa...

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Autores principales:	Pande, Gerald, Kwesiga, Benon, Bwire, Godfrey, Kalyebi, Peter, Riolexus, AlexArio, Matovu, Joseph K. B., Makumbi, Fredrick, Mugerwa, Shaban, Musinguzi, Joshua, Wanyenze, Rhoda K., Zhu, Bao-Ping
Formato:	Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:	English
Publicado:	Public Library of Science 2018
Materias:	Research Article
Acceso en línea:	https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6021037/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29949592 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0198431

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