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

• Main Authors: Miriam Nakanwagi (Author), Alex Riolexus Ario (Author), Leocadia Kwagonza (Author), Freda Loy Aceng (Author), James Mwesigye (Author), Lilian Bulage (Author), Joshua Buule (Author), Juliet Nsimire Sendagala (Author), Robert Downing (Author), Bao-Ping Zhu (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2020-02-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: 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...