Hospital-based Diarrhoeal Disease Surveillance in Bangladesh: Urban-rural Differentials in Major Findings
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HOSPITAL-BASED DIARRHOEAL DISEASE SURVEILLANCE IN BANGLADESH: URBAN-RURAL DIFFERENTIALS IN MAJOR FINDINGS Abu SG Faruque, Sumon K Das, Mohammed A Malek, Mohammed A Salam, A Cravioto. Background ICDDR,B maintains a Diarrhoeal Disease Surveillance System (DDSS) at its Dhaka (urban) and Matlab (rural) hospitals to monitor emergence of new enteric pathogens, re-emergence of conventional pathogens, changes in antimicrobial susceptibility of common bacterial isolates, and changes in characteristics of patient populations.
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