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. 1995 Oct-Dec;1(4):141–146. doi: 10.3201/eid0104.950408

Epidemic cholera in the new world: translating field epidemiology into new prevention strategies.

R V Tauxe 1, E D Mintz 1, R E Quick 1
PMCID: PMC2626892  PMID: 8903186

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