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The Invisible Burden: Diagnosing and Combatting Typhoid Fever in Asia and Africa
Measuring the burden of typhoid fever and developing effective strategies to reduce it require a surveillance infrastructure that is currently lacking in many endemic countries. Recent efforts and partnerships between local and international researchers have helped to provide new data on the inciden...
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2019
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6792124/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31612938 http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/cid/ciz611 |
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author | Pitzer, Virginia E Meiring, James Martineau, Frederick P Watson, Conall H Kang, Gagandeep Basnyat, Buddha Baker, Stephen |
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description | Measuring the burden of typhoid fever and developing effective strategies to reduce it require a surveillance infrastructure that is currently lacking in many endemic countries. Recent efforts and partnerships between local and international researchers have helped to provide new data on the incidence and control of typhoid in parts of Asia and Africa. Here, we highlight examples from India, Nepal, Vietnam, Fiji, Sierra Leone, and Malawi that summarize past and present experiences with the diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of typhoid fever in different locations with endemic disease. While there is no validated road map for the elimination of typhoid, the lessons learned in studying the epidemiology and control of typhoid in these settings can provide insights to guide future disease control efforts. |
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spelling | pubmed-67921242019-10-21 The Invisible Burden: Diagnosing and Combatting Typhoid Fever in Asia and Africa Pitzer, Virginia E Meiring, James Martineau, Frederick P Watson, Conall H Kang, Gagandeep Basnyat, Buddha Baker, Stephen Clin Infect Dis Supplement Articles Measuring the burden of typhoid fever and developing effective strategies to reduce it require a surveillance infrastructure that is currently lacking in many endemic countries. Recent efforts and partnerships between local and international researchers have helped to provide new data on the incidence and control of typhoid in parts of Asia and Africa. Here, we highlight examples from India, Nepal, Vietnam, Fiji, Sierra Leone, and Malawi that summarize past and present experiences with the diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of typhoid fever in different locations with endemic disease. While there is no validated road map for the elimination of typhoid, the lessons learned in studying the epidemiology and control of typhoid in these settings can provide insights to guide future disease control efforts. Oxford University Press 2019-11-01 2019-10-15 /pmc/articles/PMC6792124/ /pubmed/31612938 http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/cid/ciz611 Text en © The Author(s) 2019. Published by Oxford University Press for the Infectious Diseases Society of America. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted reuse, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
spellingShingle | Supplement Articles Pitzer, Virginia E Meiring, James Martineau, Frederick P Watson, Conall H Kang, Gagandeep Basnyat, Buddha Baker, Stephen The Invisible Burden: Diagnosing and Combatting Typhoid Fever in Asia and Africa |
title | The Invisible Burden: Diagnosing and Combatting Typhoid Fever in Asia and Africa |
title_full | The Invisible Burden: Diagnosing and Combatting Typhoid Fever in Asia and Africa |
title_fullStr | The Invisible Burden: Diagnosing and Combatting Typhoid Fever in Asia and Africa |
title_full_unstemmed | The Invisible Burden: Diagnosing and Combatting Typhoid Fever in Asia and Africa |
title_short | The Invisible Burden: Diagnosing and Combatting Typhoid Fever in Asia and Africa |
title_sort | invisible burden: diagnosing and combatting typhoid fever in asia and africa |
topic | Supplement Articles |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6792124/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31612938 http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/cid/ciz611 |
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