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Outdoor electric mosquito-killing apparatuses for malaria control in a hyperendemic area.

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TO THE EDITOR—We read with interest the correspondence from Collignon and Kennedy [1] regarding the duration of carriage of resistant bacteria after travelers return from tropical regions. The authors discussed the divergence in duration using a study they published in 2010 [2] and the VOYAG-R study [3]. While the overall design of both studies is similar, some key points are not. Importantly, ...

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