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Outbreak of yellow fever in central and southwestern Uganda, February–may 2016

BACKGROUND: On 28 March, 2016, the Ministry of Health received a report on three deaths from an unknown disease characterized by fever, jaundice, and hemorrhage which occurred within a one-month period in the same family in central Uganda. We started an investigation to determine its nature and scop...

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Autores principales:	Kwagonza, Leocadia, Masiira, Ben, Kyobe-Bosa, Henry, Kadobera, Daniel, Atuheire, Emily B., Lubwama, Bernard, Kagirita, Atek, Katushabe, Edson, Kayiwa, John T., Lutwama, Julius J., Ojwang, Joseph C., Makumbi, Issa, Ario, Alex Riolexus, Borchert, Jeff, Zhu, Bao-Ping
Formato:	Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:	English
Publicado:	BioMed Central 2018
Materias:	Research Article
Acceso en línea:	https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6215607/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30390621 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12879-018-3440-y

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