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Cutaneous anthrax outbreak associated with handling dead animals, Rhino Camp sub-county: Arua District, Uganda, January–May 2018

BACKGROUND: On 18 January 2018 a 40 year old man presented with skin lesions at Rhino Camp Health Centre. A skin lesion swab was collected on 20 January 2018 and was confirmed by PCR at Uganda Virus Research Institute on 21 January 2018. Subsequently, about 9 persons were reported to have fallen ill...

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Autores principales:	Ntono, Vivian, Eurien, Daniel, Bulage, Lilian, Kadobera, Daniel, Harris, Julie, Ario, Alex Riolexus
Formato:	Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:	English
Publicado:	BioMed Central 2021
Materias:	Research
Acceso en línea:	https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8082813/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33910648 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s42522-021-00040-z

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