Outbreak of gastrointestinal anthrax following eating beef of suspicious origin: Isingiro District, Uganda, 2017.

• मुख्य लेखकों: Miriam Nakanwagi (लेखक), Alex Riolexus Ario (लेखक), Leocadia Kwagonza (लेखक), Freda Loy Aceng (लेखक), James Mwesigye (लेखक), Lilian Bulage (लेखक), Joshua Buule (लेखक), Juliet Nsimire Sendagala (लेखक), Robert Downing (लेखक), Bao-Ping Zhu (लेखक)
• स्वरूप: पुस्तक
• प्रकाशित: Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2020-02-01T00:00:00Z.
• विषय: article
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INTRODUCTION:Gastrointestinal anthrax is a rare but serious disease. In August 2017, Isingiro District, Uganda reported a cluster of >40 persons with acute-onset gastroenteritis. Symptoms included bloody diarrhoea. We investigated to identify the etiology and exposures, and to inform control meas...