Housefly population density correlates with shigellosis among children in Mirzapur, Bangladesh: a time series analysis.

• Main Authors: Tamer H Farag (Author), Abu S Faruque (Author), Yukun Wu (Author), Sumon K Das (Author), Anowar Hossain (Author), Shahnawaz Ahmed (Author), Dilruba Ahmed (Author), Dilruba Nasrin (Author), Karen L Kotloff (Author), Sandra Panchilangam (Author), James P Nataro (Author), Dani Cohen (Author), William C Blackwelder (Author), Myron M Levine (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2013-01-01T00:00:00Z.
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BACKGROUND: Shigella infections are a public health problem in developing and transitional countries because of high transmissibility, severity of clinical disease, widespread antibiotic resistance and lack of a licensed vaccine. Whereas Shigellae are known to be transmitted primarily by direct feca...