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Original Articles

Impacts of floods on dysentery in Xinxiang city, China, during 2004–2010: a time-series Poisson analysis

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Article: 23904 | Received 23 Jan 2014, Accepted 14 Jul 2014, Published online: 05 Aug 2014

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