Typhoid fever and invasive nontyphoid salmonellosis, Malawi and South Africa

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 16, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 1448-1451

  Feasey, Nicholas A ^a   Archer, Brett N ^b   Heyderman, Robert S ^a   Sooka, Arvinda ^b   Dennis, Brigitte ^a   Gordon, Melita A ^d   Keddy, Karen H ^b,c  

^a MALAWI LIVERPOOL WELLCOME TRUST CLINICAL RESEARCH PROGRAMME   (Malawi)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR COMMUNICABLE DISEASES   (South Africa)

^c UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

^d UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; BLOOD CULTURE; CHILD; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; FEVER; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALAWI; MALE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PREVALENCE; SALMONELLA; SALMONELLOSIS; SCHOOL CHILD; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOUTH AFRICA; TYPHOID FEVER;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; EPIDEMICS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; MALAWI; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREVALENCE; SALMONELLA; SALMONELLA INFECTIONS; SALMONELLA TYPHI; SEROTYPING; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; SOUTH AFRICA; TYPHOID FEVER; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77956016681     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: 10806059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid1609.100125     Document Type: Article

References (15)

1. Gordon MA, Graham SM, Walsh AL, Wilson LK, Phiri A, Molyneux EM, et al. Epidemics of invasive Salmonella enterica serovar Enteritidis and Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium infection associated with multidrug resistance among adults and children in Malawi. Clin Infect Dis. 2008;46:963-9. DOI: 10.1086/529146
2. Kariuki S, Revathi G, Kariuki N, Kiiru J, Mwituria J, Muyodi J, et al. Invasive multidrug-resistant non-typhoidal Salmonella infections in Africa: zoonotic or anthroponotic transmission? J Med Microbiol. 2006;55:585-91. DOI: 10.1099/jmm.0.46375-0
3. Gordon MA. Salmonella infections in immunocompromised adults. J Infect. 2008;56:413-22. DOI: 10.1016/j.jinf.2008.03.012
4. Hotez PJ, Kamath A. Neglected tropical diseases in sub-Saharan Africa: review of their prevalence, distribution, and disease burden. PLoS Negl Trop Dis. 2009;3:e412. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0000412
5. Berkley JA, Lowe BS, Mwangi I, Williams T, Bauni E, Mwarumba S, et al. Bacteremia among children admitted to a rural hospital in Kenya. N Engl J Med. 2005;352:39-47. DOI: 10.1056/NEJMoa040275
6. Enwere G, Biney E, Cheung YB, Zaman SM, Okoko B, Oluwalana C, et al. Epidemiologic and clinical characteristics of community-acquired invasive bacterial infections in children aged 2-29 months in The Gambia. Pediatr Infect Dis J. 2006;25:700-5. DOI: 10.1097/01.inf.0000226839.30925.a5
7. Sigauque B, Roca A, Mandomando I, Morais L, Quinto L, Sacarlal J, et al. Community-acquired bacteremia among children admitted to a rural hospital in Mozambique. Pediatr Infect Dis J. 2009;28:108-13. DOI: 10.1097/INF.0b013e318187a87d
8. van Oosterhout JJ, Laufer MK, Graham SM, Thumba F, Perez MA, Chimbiya N, et al. A community-based study of the incidence of trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole-preventable infections in Malawian adults living with HIV. J Acquir Immune Defic Syndr. 2005;39:626-31.
9. Gilks CF. Acute bacterial infections and HIV disease. Br Med Bull. 1998;54:383-93.
10. Watera C, Nakiyingi J, Miiro G, Muwonge R, Whitworth JA, Gilks CF, et al. 23-Valent pneumococcal polysaccharide vaccine in HIVinfected Ugandan adults: 6-year follow-up of a clinical trial cohort. AIDS. 2004;18:1210-3. DOI: 10.1097/00002030-200405210-00018
11. Crump JA, Mintz ED. Global trends in typhoid and paratyphoid fever. Clin Infect Dis. 2010;50:241-6. DOI: 10.1086/649541
12. Ochiai RL, Acosta CJ, Danovaro-Holliday MC, Baiqing D, Bhattacharya SK, Agtini MD et al. A study of typhoid fever in five Asian countries: disease burden and implications for controls. Bull World Health Organ. 2008;86:260-8. DOI: 10.2471/BLT.06.039818
13. MacLennan CA, Gondwe EN, Msefula CL, Kingsley RA, Thomson NR, White SA, et al. The neglected role of antibody in protection against bacteremia caused by nontyphoidal strains of Salmonella in African children. J Clin Invest. 2008;118:1553-62. DOI: 10.1172/JCI33998
14. Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS. Country progress report on the declaration of commitment on HIV/AIDS. 2010 [cited 2010 June 21]. http://data.unaids.org/pub/Report/2010/southafrica_2010_country_progress_report_en.pdf
15. Kingsley RA, Msefula CL, Thomson NR, Kariuki S, Holt KE, Gordon MA, et al. Epidemic multiple drug resistant Salmonella Typhimurium causing invasive disease in sub-Saharan Africa have a distinct genotype. Genome Res. 2009;19:2279-87. DOI: 10.1101/gr.091017.109