Taking care of a diarrhea epidemic in an urban hospital in Bangladesh: Appraisal of putative causes, presentation, management, and deaths averted.

• Main Authors: S M Tafsir Hasan (Author), Subhasish Das (Author), A S G Faruque (Author), Azharul Islam Khan (Author), John D Clemens (Author), Tahmeed Ahmed (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2021-11-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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<h4>Background</h4>In April 2018, a diarrhea epidemic broke out in Dhaka city and adjoining areas, which continued through May. The Dhaka Hospital of the International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh (icddr,b), a dedicated diarrheal disease hospital, had a large upsurg...