Population-based incidence of typhoid fever in an urban informal settlement and a rural area in Kenya: implications for typhoid vaccine use in Africa.

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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Main Authors: Robert F Breiman, Leonard Cosmas, Henry Njuguna, Allan Audi, Beatrice Olack, John B Ochieng, Newton Wamola, Godfrey M Bigogo, George Awiti, Collins W Tabu, Heather Burke, John Williamson, Joseph O Oundo, Eric D Mintz, Daniel R Feikin
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2012-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3261857?pdf=render

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