Environmental sanitation, food and water contamination and diarrhoea in rural Bangladesh.

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Published in Epidemiol Infect on April 01, 1990

Authors

F J Henry1, S R Huttly, Y Patwary, K M Aziz

Author Affiliations

1: International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh.

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