Surveillance of Food- and Smear-Transmitted Pathogens in European Soldiers with Diarrhea on Deployment in the Tropics: Experience from the European Union Training Mission (EUTM) Mali

Introduction. Since 2013, European soldiers have been deployed on the European Union Training Mission (EUTM) in Mali. From the beginning, diarrhea has been among the most “urgent” concerns. Diarrhea surveillance based on deployable real-time PCR equipment was conducted between December 2013 and Augu...

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Main Authors: Hagen Frickmann, Philipp Warnke, Claudia Frey, Salvatore Schmidt, Christian Janke, Kay Erkens, Ulrich Schotte, Thomas Köller, Winfried Maaßen, Andreas Podbielski, Alfred Binder, Rebecca Hinz, Benjamin Queyriaux, Dorothea Wiemer, Norbert Georg Schwarz, Ralf Matthias Hagen
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Hindawi Limited 2015-01-01
Series:BioMed Research International
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2015/573904