The Severe Typhoid Fever in Africa Program Highlights the Need for Broad Deployment of Typhoid Conjugate Vaccines-Reference-Cited by-同舟云学术

The Severe Typhoid Fever in Africa Program Highlights the Need for Broad Deployment of Typhoid Conjugate Vaccines

Published:2019-10-30 Issue:Supplement_6 Volume:69 Page:S413-S416
ISSN:1058-4838
Container-title:Clinical Infectious Diseases
language:en
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Author:

Carey Megan E¹²,Steele A Duncan¹

Affiliation:

1. Enteric and Diarrheal Diseases, Global Health, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Seattle, Washington

2. Department of Medicine, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom

Abstract

AbstractThe Typhoid Surveillance in Africa Program (TSAP) and the Severe Typhoid Fever in Africa (SETA) program have refined our understanding of age and geographic distribution of typhoid fever and other invasive salmonelloses in Africa and will help inform future typhoid control strategies, namely, introduction of typhoid conjugate vaccines.

Funder

Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation

Publisher

Oxford University Press (OUP)

Subject

Infectious Diseases,Microbiology (medical)

Link

http://academic.oup.com/cid/article-pdf/69/Supplement_6/S413/30328153/ciz637.pdf

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