Typhoid and paratyphoid fever co-infection in children from an urban slum of Delhi

We report two cases of co-infection with Salmonella Typhi and Salmonella Paratyphi A identified by blood culture and confirmed by serotyping from an ongoing fever surveillance cohort in an urban slum in New Delhi. Co-infections such as these have important implications on diagnosis, treatment option...

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Autores principales: Dutta, Ankita, More, Deepak, Tupaki-Sreepurna, Ananya, Sinha, Bireshwar, Goyal, Nidhi, Rongsen-Chandola, Temsunaro
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7075973/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32195117
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.idcr.2020.e00717
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Sumario:We report two cases of co-infection with Salmonella Typhi and Salmonella Paratyphi A identified by blood culture and confirmed by serotyping from an ongoing fever surveillance cohort in an urban slum in New Delhi. Co-infections such as these have important implications on diagnosis, treatment options including choice of antimicrobial(s), disease outcome and strategy for prevention.

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