Promotion of healthy swimming after a statewide outbreak of cryptosporidiosis associated with recreational water venues-utah, 2008-2009.
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Name: American journal of transplantation : official journal of the American Society of Transplantation and the American Society of Tr
ISSN: 1600-6143
Pages: 2247-51
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- PubMed Source: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22845912
- DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1600-6143.2012.04218.x
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Sverdlovsk Accidental Release
ANTHRAX outbreak that occurred in 1979 and was associated with a research facility in Sverdlovsk, in the Ural mountain region of central RUSSIA. Most victims worked or lived in a narrow zone extending from the facility. The zone of anthrax-caused livestock mortality paralleled the northerly wind that prevailed shortly before the outbreak. It was concluded that an escape of ANTHRAX caused outbreak.
Mycobacterium Marinum
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