Risk factors for typhoid fever in a slum in Dhaka, Bangladesh

Epidemiology and Infection

Volumn 135, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 458-465

  Ram, P K ^a,b   Naheed, A ^c   Brooks, W A ^c   Hossain, M A ^c   Mintz, E D ^a   Breiman, R F ^c   Luby, S P ^a,c  

^a CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

^c ICDDR B Centre for Health and Population Research   (Bangladesh)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; DRINKING WATER;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; BANGLADESH; CHILD; CHLORINATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEFECATION; DIETARY INTAKE; DISINFECTION; ENVIRONMENTAL SANITATION; FEMALE; FOOD CONTAMINATION; HUMAN; INFANT; INFECTION CONTROL; INTERVIEW; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PAPAYA; PERSONAL HYGIENE; PUBLIC HEALTH; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK REDUCTION; TYPHOID FEVER; URBAN AREA; WATER CONTAMINATION; WATER SUPPLY; WATER TREATMENT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BANGLADESH; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DISINFECTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POVERTY AREAS; RISK FACTORS; SANITATION; TYPHOID FEVER; WATER MICROBIOLOGY;

EID: 33947434845     PISSN: 09502688     EISSN: 14694409     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0950268806007114     Document Type: Article

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