Intestinal infectious diseases

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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]

## References

1. ↑ Cliff, Andrew; Smallman-Raynor, 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. ↑ 2.0 2.1 "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 (GBD 2013 Mortality and Causes of Death Collaborators) 385 (9963): 117–71. 17 December 2014. doi:10.1016/S0140-6736(14)61682-2. PMID 25530442.

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