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Fatal cases associated with eating chapatti contaminated with organophosphate in Tororo District, Eastern Uganda, 2015: case series

BACKGROUND: Few cases of organophosphate poisoning in developing countries have been investigated using clinical and epidemiological methods. On 30 October 2015, 3 students at Mukuju School, Tororo District, Uganda, died soon after eating chapatti (locally-made flat bread) from the same food stand....

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Autores principales:	Kwesiga, Benon, Ario, Alex R., Bulage, Lilian, Harris, Julie, Zhu, Bao-Ping
Formato:	Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:	English
Publicado:	BioMed Central 2019
Materias:	Research Article
Acceso en línea:	https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6580625/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31208431 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12889-019-7143-0

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