Epidemiology and risk factors for endemic typhoid fever in Uzbekistan

Tropical Medicine and International Health

Volumn 12, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 838-847

  Srikantiah, Padmini ^a,e   Vafokulov, Sagdullo ^b   Luby, Stephen P ^a   Ishmail, Tharwat ^c   Earhart, Kenneth ^c   Khodjaev, Ne'mat ^d   Jennings, Gregory ^c   Crump, John A ^a   Mahoney, Frank J ^c  

^a NATL CENTER FOR INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

^b Samarkand Oblast Infectious Diseases Hospital   (Uzbekistan)

^c US Naval Medical Research Unit No 3 Egypt   (Egypt)

^d Samarkand Oblast Sanitary and Epidemiology Section   (Uzbekistan)

^e SAN FRANCISCO GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Drug resistance; Endemic; Salmonella; Typhoid fever; Uzbekistan

Indexed keywords

AMPICILLIN; CHLORAMPHENICOL; COTRIMOXAZOLE; DRINKING WATER;

ANTIBIOTICS; BACTERIUM; DISEASE CONTROL; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; DRINKING WATER; ENDEMISM; EPIDEMIOLOGY; HEALTH RISK; RISK FACTOR; TYPHOID; WATER QUALITY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CHILD; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; ENDEMIC DISEASE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SALMONELLA TYPHI; TYPHOID FEVER; UZBEKISTAN; WATER CONTAMINATION; WATER QUALITY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DRINKING; DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; ENDEMIC DISEASES; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; FOOD HANDLING; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; RISK FACTORS; SALMONELLA TYPHI; TYPHOID FEVER; UZBEKISTAN; WATER SUPPLY;

ASIA; EURASIA; UZBEKISTAN; WEST ASIA;

SALMONELLA; SALMONELLA TYPHI;

EID: 34347259541     PISSN: 13602276     EISSN: 13653156     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3156.2007.01853.x     Document Type: Article

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