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Real-time analysis of the diphtheria outbreak in forcibly displaced Myanmar nationals in Bangladesh

BACKGROUND: Between August and December 2017, more than 625,000 Rohingya from Myanmar fled into Bangladesh, settling in informal makeshift camps in Cox’s Bazar district and joining 212,000 Rohingya already present. In early November, a diphtheria outbreak hit the camps, with 440 reported cases durin...

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Autores principales: Finger, Flavio, Funk, Sebastian, White, Kate, Siddiqui, M. Ruby, Edmunds, W. John, Kucharski, Adam J.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6413455/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30857521
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12916-019-1288-7