A large and persistent outbreak of typhoid fever caused by consuming contaminated water and street-vended beverages: Kampala, Uganda, January – June 2015
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- 作者：Steven Ndugwa Kabwama ; Lilian Bulage ; Fred Nsubuga ; Gerald Pande…
- 关键词：Typhoid fever ; Outbreak ; Case ; control ; Uganda
- 刊名：BMC Public Health
- 出版年：2017
- 出版时间：December 2017
- 年：2017
- 卷：17
- 期：1
- 全文大小：743KB
- 刊物主题：Public Health; Medicine/Public Health, general; Epidemiology; Environmental Health; Biostatistics; Vaccine;
- 出版者：BioMed Central
- ISSN：1471-2458
- 卷排序：17
文摘
BackgroundOn 6 February 2015, Kampala city authorities alerted the Ugandan Ministry of Health of a “strange disease” that killed one person and sickened dozens. We conducted an epidemiologic investigation to identify the nature of the disease, mode of transmission, and risk factors to inform timely and effective control measures.