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CLUSTERS OF SIRENOMELIA IN SOUTH AMERICA
Congenital abnormalities
Epidemics
Landfill leachate
Monsters
South America
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Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro. Departamento de Genética. ECLAMC: Latin-American Collaborative Study of Congenital Malformations. Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brasil.
International Centre for Birth Defects. International Clearinghouse for Birth Defects Surveillance and Research. Rome, Italy.
ECLAMC at IMBICE: Instituto Multidisciplinario de Biologia Celular. La Plata, Argentina / ECLAMC at CEMIC: Centro de Educación Médica e Investigación Clínica. Buenos Aires, Argentina.
ECLAMC at Universidad del Valle. Cali, Colombia.
ECLAMC at Universidad del Valle. Cali, Colombia.
ECLAMC at HIBA: Hospital Italiano de Buenos Aires. Argentina.
ECLAMC at Instituto de Genética Médica. Universidad Javeriana. Bogotá, Colombia.
ECLAMC at CEMIC: Centro de Educación Médica e Investigación Clínica. Buenos Aires, Argentina / Fundação Oswaldo Cruz. Instituto Oswaldo Cruz. Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brasil.
International Centre for Birth Defects. International Clearinghouse for Birth Defects Surveillance and Research. Rome, Italy.
ECLAMC at IMBICE: Instituto Multidisciplinario de Biologia Celular. La Plata, Argentina / ECLAMC at CEMIC: Centro de Educación Médica e Investigación Clínica. Buenos Aires, Argentina.
ECLAMC at Universidad del Valle. Cali, Colombia.
ECLAMC at Universidad del Valle. Cali, Colombia.
ECLAMC at HIBA: Hospital Italiano de Buenos Aires. Argentina.
ECLAMC at Instituto de Genética Médica. Universidad Javeriana. Bogotá, Colombia.
ECLAMC at CEMIC: Centro de Educación Médica e Investigación Clínica. Buenos Aires, Argentina / Fundação Oswaldo Cruz. Instituto Oswaldo Cruz. Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brasil.
Abstract
One hospital in the city of Cali, Colombia, of the ECLAMC (Latin-American Collaborative Study of Congenital Malformations) network, reported the unusual occurrence of four cases of sirenomelia within a 55-day period.
Keywords
Cluster analysisCongenital abnormalities
Epidemics
Landfill leachate
Monsters
South America
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