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Epidemiology and Genomics of Invasive Nontyphoidal Salmonella Infections in Kenya.
Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America - 1 Nov 2015
Kariuki Samuel, Onsare Robert S
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BACKGROUND: In Kenya, invasive nontyphoidal Salmonella (iNTS) disease causes severe bacteremic illness among adults with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and especially among children <5 years of age coinfected with HIV or malaria, or who are compromised by sickle cell disease or severe malnutrition. The incidence of iNTS disease in children ranges from 166 to 568 cases per 100,000 persons per year. METHODS: We...
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