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Outbreak of gastrointestinal anthrax following eating beef of suspicious origin: Isingiro District, Uganda, 2017

INTRODUCTION: Gastrointestinal anthrax is a rare but serious disease. In August 2017, Isingiro District, Uganda reported a cluster of >40 persons with acute-onset gastroenteritis. Symptoms included bloody diarrhoea. We investigated to identify the etiology and exposures, and to inform control mea...

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Autores principales: Nakanwagi, Miriam, Ario, Alex Riolexus, Kwagonza, Leocadia, Aceng, Freda Loy, Mwesigye, James, Bulage, Lilian, Buule, Joshua, Sendagala, Juliet Nsimire, Downing, Robert, Zhu, Bao-Ping
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7064260/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32106229
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0008026