Risk factors for typhoid fever among adult patients in Diyarbakir, Turkey

Epidemiology and Infection

Volumn 134, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 612-616

  Hosoglu, S ^a   Celen, M K ^a   Geyik, M F ^a   Akalin, S ^a   Ayaz, C ^a   Acemoglu, H ^a   Loeb, Mark ^b  

^a DICLE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Turkey)

^b MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL TRANSMISSION; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; BLOOD CULTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROWDING; FEMALE; FOOD CONTAMINATION; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HOUSEHOLD; HUMAN; INFECTION RISK; LEAFY VEGETABLE; LETTUCE; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PERSONAL HYGIENE; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PUBLIC HEALTH; RAW FOOD; RISK FACTOR; SALMONELLA TYPHI; SEWAGE; TURKEY (REPUBLIC); TYPHOID FEVER;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; TYPHOID FEVER;

EID: 33646162449     PISSN: 09502688     EISSN: 14694409     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0950268805005583     Document Type: Article

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