Fatal Outbreak from Consuming Xanthium strumarium Seedlings during Time of Food Scarcity in Northeastern Bangladesh

• Emily S. Gurley ,

  * E-mail: egurley@icddrb.org

  Affiliation Programme on Infectious Diseases and Vaccine Sciences, International Centre for Diarrheal Diseases Research, Bangladesh (ICDDR,B), Dhaka, Bangladesh

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• Mahmudur Rahman,

  Affiliation Institute of Epidemiology, Disease Control and Research (IEDCR), Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Government of Bangladesh, Dhaka, Bangladesh

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• M. Jahangir Hossain,

  Affiliation Programme on Infectious Diseases and Vaccine Sciences, International Centre for Diarrheal Diseases Research, Bangladesh (ICDDR,B), Dhaka, Bangladesh

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• Nazmun Nahar,

  Affiliation Programme on Infectious Diseases and Vaccine Sciences, International Centre for Diarrheal Diseases Research, Bangladesh (ICDDR,B), Dhaka, Bangladesh

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• M. Abul Faiz,

  Affiliation Directorate General of Health Services, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Government of Bangladesh, Dhaka, Bangladesh

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• Nazrul Islam,

  Affiliation Department of Virology, Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University, Dhaka, Bangladesh

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• Rebeca Sultana,

  Affiliation Programme on Infectious Diseases and Vaccine Sciences, International Centre for Diarrheal Diseases Research, Bangladesh (ICDDR,B), Dhaka, Bangladesh

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• Selina Khatun,

  Affiliation Institute of Epidemiology, Disease Control and Research (IEDCR), Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Government of Bangladesh, Dhaka, Bangladesh

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• Mohammad Zashim Uddin,

  Affiliation Department of Botany, University of Dhaka, Dhaka, Bangladesh

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• M. Sabbir Haider,

  Affiliation Institute of Epidemiology, Disease Control and Research (IEDCR), Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Government of Bangladesh, Dhaka, Bangladesh

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• M. Saiful Islam,

  Affiliation Programme on Infectious Diseases and Vaccine Sciences, International Centre for Diarrheal Diseases Research, Bangladesh (ICDDR,B), Dhaka, Bangladesh

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• Be-Nazir Ahmed,

  Affiliation Institute of Epidemiology, Disease Control and Research (IEDCR), Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Government of Bangladesh, Dhaka, Bangladesh

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• Muhammad Waliur Rahman,

  Affiliation Programme on Infectious Diseases and Vaccine Sciences, International Centre for Diarrheal Diseases Research, Bangladesh (ICDDR,B), Dhaka, Bangladesh

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• Utpal Kumar Mondal,

  Affiliation Programme on Infectious Diseases and Vaccine Sciences, International Centre for Diarrheal Diseases Research, Bangladesh (ICDDR,B), Dhaka, Bangladesh

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• Stephen P. Luby

  Affiliations Programme on Infectious Diseases and Vaccine Sciences, International Centre for Diarrheal Diseases Research, Bangladesh (ICDDR,B), Dhaka, Bangladesh, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

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