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An epidemic of bloody diarrhea: Escherichia coli O157 emerging in Cameroon?
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1999 Mar-Apr
Source: Emerg Infect Dis. 5(2):285-290.
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Alternative Title:Emerg Infect Dis
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Description:Between November 1997 and April 20, 1998, bloody diarrhea sickened 298 persons in Cameroon. Laboratory investigation of the epidemic (case-fatality rate, 16.4%) documented amoebiasis in one of three patients and three types of pathogens: multidrug-resistant Shigella dysenteriae type 1, S. boydii, and enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli. We report the first isolation of E. coli O157:H7 in Cameroon and the second series of cases in the Central African region.
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