Spatial Heterogeneity of Enteric Fever in 2 Diverse Communities in Nepal
Author(s) -
Dipesh Tamrakar,
Krista Vaidya,
Alexander T. Yu,
Kristen Aiemjoy,
Shiva Ram Naga,
Yanjia Cao,
Caryn Bern,
Rajeev Shrestha,
Biraj Karmacharya,
Sailesh Pradhan,
Farah Naz Qamar,
Samir K. Saha,
Kashmira Date,
Ashley T Longley,
Caitlin Hemlock,
Stephen P. Luby,
Denise O Garrett,
Isaac I. Bogoch,
Jason R. Andrews
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
clinical infectious diseases
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.44
H-Index - 336
eISSN - 1537-6591
pISSN - 1058-4838
DOI - 10.1093/cid/ciaa1319
Subject(s) - typhoid fever , incidence (geometry) , population , medicine , salmonella typhi , enteric fever , environmental health , rural area , paratyphoid fever , geography , demography , virology , biology , pathology , biochemistry , physics , escherichia coli , sociology , optics , gene
Typhoid fever is endemic in the urban Kathmandu Valley of Nepal; however, there have been no population-based studies of typhoid outside of this community in the past 3 decades. Whether typhoid immunization should be prioritized in periurban and rural communities has been unclear.
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