Correction: The burden of diarrhoea, shigellosis, and cholera in North Jakarta, Indonesia: findings from 24 months surveillance
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This is a correction of an earlier published article. Text After the publication of this work[1], we became aware that the our description of the methods used to identify Shigella spp. did not describe the identification of a subset of Shigella spp. which were untypeable with commercial sera. Additional typing was conducted by Dr. Kaisar A. Published: 26 January 2007 BMC Infectious Diseases 2007, 7:1 doi:10.1186/1471-2334-7-1 Received: 10 October 2006 Accepted: 26 January 2007 This article is available from: http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2334/7/1 © 2007 Agtini et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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ورودعنوان ژورنال:
- BMC Infectious Diseases
دوره 7 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2007