Cholera in Yangon, Myanmar, 2012–2013
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Author affiliations: Ministry of Health Department of Medical Research (Lower Myanmar), Yangon, Myanmar (W.W. Aung, N.A.T Oo, M.M. Aye); Thailand-Japan Research Collaboration Center on Emerging and Re-emerging Infections, Nonthaburi, Thailand (K. Okada, M. Na-Ubol, W. Natakuathung, S. Hamada); Osaka University Research Institute for Microbial Diseases, Osaka, Japan (K. Okada, S. Hamada); University of Medicine, Yangon (T. Sandar)
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