The burden and characteristics of enteric fever at a healthcare facility in a densely populated area of kathmandu

PLoS ONE

Volumn 5, Issue 11, 2010, Pages

  Karkey, Abhilasha ^a   Arjyal, Amit ^a   Anders, Katherine L ^a   Boni, Maciej F ^a,b   Dongol, Sabina ^a   Koirala, Samir ^a   My, Phan Vu Tra ^a   Nga, Tran Vu Thieu ^a   Clements, Archie C A ^c   Holt, Kathryn E ^d   Duy, Pham Thanh ^a   Day, Jeremy N ^a   Campbel, James I ^a   Dougan, Gordon ^e   Dolecek, Christiane ^a   Farrar, Jeremy ^a   Basnyat, Buddha ^a   Baker, Stephen ^a  

^a OXFORD UNIVERSITY CLINICAL RESEARCH UNIT   (Viet Nam)

^b Medical Research Council Centre for Genomics and Global Health   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^e WELLCOME TRUST SANGER INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DRINKING WATER;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE FACILITY; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEPAL; NONHUMAN; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SALMONELLA ENTERICA; SANITATION; SEASONAL VARIATION; SEX DIFFERENCE; TYPHOID FEVER; VACCINATION; AGE; CHILD; CROSS INFECTION; GEOGRAPHY; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PARATYPHOID FEVER; POPULATION DENSITY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PREVALENCE; SALMONELLA PARATYPHI; SALMONELLA TYPHI; SEASON; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

SALMONELLA ENTERICA; SALMONELLA TYPHI;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CROSS INFECTION; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHY; HEALTH FACILITIES; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEPAL; PARATYPHOID FEVER; POPULATION DENSITY; PREVALENCE; SALMONELLA PARATYPHI A; SALMONELLA TYPHI; SEASONS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TYPHOID FEVER; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 78649739204     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0013988     Document Type: Article

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