Publications
| shigellosis in the marshall islands: epidemiologic aspects of an outbreak. | an outbreak of diarrheal illness caused by shigella flexneri 1b and associated with 11 deaths occurred in the marshall islands during june and july 1977. a house-to-house survey on majuro indicated an attack rate of 6.2%. neither the survey nor a case-control study uncovered a common source of exposure on majuro, and it is believed that transmission was mainly person-to-person. socioeconomic factors, type of water supply, distance to municipal water supply, and type of sanitary facility could no ... | 1980 | 7386724 |
| intestinal parasitic infections: current prevalence and risk factors among schoolchildren in capital area of the republic of marshall islands. | intestinal parasitic infections (ipis) among schoolchildren in republic of marshall islands (rmi) largely remains unknown, thus investigation on ipis status to establish the baseline data is urgently needed. this cross-sectional study intended to investigate the current ipis status and associated risk factors among schoolchildren at capital of rmi. single stool sample from 400 schoolchildren (207 boys and 193 girls) aged 9.73±2.50 yrs old was examined by employing merthiolate-iodine-formaldehyde ... | 2017 | 28847672 |