Typhoid fever and the challenge of nonmalaria febrile illness in sub-saharan Africa

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 54, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 1107-1109

  Crump, John A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HAEMOPHILUS INFLUENZAE TYPE B VACCINE; PNEUMOCOCCUS VACCINE; TYPHOID VACCINE;

AFRICA; ATAXIA; BLOOD CULTURE; BLOODSTREAM INFECTION; BRUCELLOSIS; CD4+ T LYMPHOCYTE; DISEASE CONTROL; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; HEALTH CARE FACILITY; HIGHLY ACTIVE ANTIRETROVIRAL THERAPY; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; IMMUNOASSAY; INCIDENCE; INTESTINE PERFORATION; LEPTOSPIROSIS; MALARIA; MALNUTRITION; MORTALITY; NONHUMAN; NOTE; PARKINSONISM; PNEUMONIA; POVERTY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; Q FEVER; RURAL AREA; SALMONELLA ENTERICA; SALMONELLA TYPHI; SALMONELLOSIS; SANITATION; TYPHOID FEVER; URBANIZATION;

DISEASE OUTBREAKS; DRUG RESISTANCE, MULTIPLE, BACTERIAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTESTINAL PERFORATION; MALE; NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASES; SALMONELLA TYPHI; TYPHOID FEVER;

EID: 84859015604     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: 15376591     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cid/cis024     Document Type: Note

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