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Molecular Surveillance Identifies Multiple Transmissions of Typhoid in West Africa.
International Typhoid Consortium, Vanessa K Wong, Kathryn E Holt, Chinyere Okoro, Stephen Baker, Derek J Pickard, Florian Marks, Andrew J Page, Grace Olanipekun, Huda Munir, Roxanne Alter, Paul D Fey, Nicholas A Feasey, Francois-Xavier Weill, Simon Le Hello, Peter J Hart, Samuel Kariuki, Robert F Breiman, Melita A Gordon, Robert S Heyderman, Jan Jacobs, Octavie Lunguya, Chisomo Msefula, Calman A MacLennan, Karen H Keddy, Anthony M Smith, Robert S Onsare, Elizabeth de Pinna, Satheesh Nair, Ben Amos, Gordon Dougan, Stephen Obaro
Feb 19, 2019
BACKGROUND: The burden of typhoid in sub-Saharan African (SSA) countries has been difficult to estimate, in part, due to suboptimal laboratory diagnostics. However, surveillance blood cultures at two sites in Nigeria have...