Intestinal Infectious Diseases

Intestinal infectious diseases include a large number of infections of the bowels including: cholera, typhoid fever, paratyphoid fever, other types of salmonella infections, shigellosis, botulism, gastroenteritis, and amoebiasis among others.^[1] Typhoid and paratyphoid resulted in 221,000 deaths in 2013 down from 259,000 deaths in 1990.^[2] Other diseases which result in diarrhea caused another 1.3 million additional deaths in 2013 down from 2.6 million deaths in 1990.^[2]

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↑ Smallman-Raynor, Andrew Cliff, Matthew (2013). Oxford textbook of infectious disease control : a geographical analysis from medieval quarantine to global eradication (First ed.). Oxford: Oxford University Press. p. 63. ISBN 9780199596614. https://books.google.com/books?id=AqhDZkWJjPQC&pg=PA63.
↑ ^2.0 ^2.1 GBD 2013 Mortality and Causes of Death Collaborators (17 December 2014). "Global, regional, and national age-sex specific all-cause and cause-specific mortality for 240 causes of death, 1990–2013: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2013.". Lancet 385 (9963): 117–71. doi:10.1016/S0140-6736(14)61682-2. PMID 25530442.

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[1] Smallman-Raynor, Andrew Cliff, Matthew (2013). Oxford textbook of infectious disease control : a geographical analysis from medieval quarantine to global eradication (First ed.). Oxford: Oxford University Press. p. 63. ISBN 9780199596614. https://books.google.com/books?id=AqhDZkWJjPQC&pg=PA63.

[GBD204-2] 2.0 ^2.1 GBD 2013 Mortality and Causes of Death Collaborators (17 December 2014). "Global, regional, and national age-sex specific all-cause and cause-specific mortality for 240 causes of death, 1990–2013: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2013.". Lancet 385 (9963): 117–71. doi:10.1016/S0140-6736(14)61682-2. PMID 25530442.