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Sachet water consumption as a risk factor for cholera in urban settings: Findings from a case control study in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo during the 2017–2018 outbreak

BACKGROUND: Behavioural risk factors for cholera are well established in rural and semi-urban contexts, but not in densely populated mega-cities in Sub-Saharan Africa. In November 2017, a cholera epidemic occurred in Kinshasa, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, where no outbreak had been recorded...

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Autores principales: Mbala-Kingebeni, Placide, Vogt, Florian, Miwanda, Berthe, Sundika, Tresor, Mbula, Nancy, Pankwa, Isaac, Lubula, Leopold, Vanlerberghe, Veerle, Magazani, Alain, Afoumbom, Mildred Tita, Muyembe-Tamfum, Jean-Jacques
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8266059/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34237058
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0009477