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Surveillance of Salmonella enterica serovar Typhi in Colombia, 2012-2015.
PLoS neglected tropical diseases - 1 Mar 2020
Diaz-Guevara Paula, Montaño Lucy Angeline, Duarte Carolina, Zabaleta Gabriela, Maes Mailis, Martinez Angarita Julio Cesar, Thanh Duy Pham, León-Quevedo William, Castañeda-Orjuela Carlos, Alvarez Alvarez Claudia Jimena, Guerrero Jaime, Moroni Miriam, Campos Josefina, Pérez Enrique, Baker Stephen
Abstract excerpt
Salmonella Typhi (S. Typhi) is the causative agent of typhoid fever; a systemic disease affecting ~20 million people per year globally. There are little data regarding the contemporary epidemiology of typhoid in Latin America. Consequently, we aimed to describe some recent epidemiological aspects of typhoid in Colombia using cases reported to the National Public Health Surveillance System (Sivigila) between 2012...
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