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Population-Based Incidence of Typhoid Fever in an Urban Informal Settlement and a Rural Area in Kenya: Implications for Typhoid Vaccine Use in Africa

BACKGROUND: High rates of typhoid fever in children in urban settings in Asia have led to focus on childhood immunization in Asian cities, but not in Africa, where data, mostly from rural areas, have shown low disease incidence. We set out to compare incidence of typhoid fever in a densely populated...

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Autores principales: Breiman, Robert F., Cosmas, Leonard, Njuguna, Henry, Audi, Allan, Olack, Beatrice, Ochieng, John B., Wamola, Newton, Bigogo, Godfrey M., Awiti, George, Tabu, Collins W., Burke, Heather, Williamson, John, Oundo, Joseph O., Mintz, Eric D., Feikin, Daniel R.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2012
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3261857/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22276105
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0029119