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Salmonella Typhi Shedding and Household Transmission by Children With Blood Culture-Confirmed Typhoid Fever in Vellore, South India

BACKGROUND: Children suffer the highest burden of the typhoid fever, with a considerable proportion shedding Salmonella Typhi in stool, potentially resulting in transmission of S Typhi. METHODS: We enrolled 70 children with blood culture-confirmed typhoid fever (index cases), from 63 households, dur...

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Autores principales: Srinivasan, Manikandan, Sindhu, Kulandaipalayam Natarajan, Giri, Sidhartha, Kumar, Nirmal, Mohan, Venkata Raghava, Grassly, Nicholas C, Kang, Gagandeep
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Oxford University Press 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8892528/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35238362
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/infdis/jiab409