E. coli — Worldwide/Unknown
[Authors: Chattaway MA, Harris R, Jenkins C, Tam C, Coia JE, Gray J, Iturriza-Gomara M, Wain J]
Measuring the burden of infectious disease is essential for the rational design of public health intervention strategies and for the allocation of resources. For intestinal infectious diseases (IID) there is a massive global burden; the WHO estimates around 2 billion cases every year (1). Detailed surveillance studies have shown that there are up to 17 million sporadic community cases of IID and
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