The clinical and microbiological characteristics of enteric fever in Cambodia, 2008-2015.

• Main Authors: Laura M F Kuijpers (Author), Thong Phe (Author), Chhun H Veng (Author), Kruy Lim (Author), Sovann Ieng (Author), Chun Kham (Author), Nizar Fawal (Author), Laetitia Fabre (Author), Simon Le Hello (Author), Erika Vlieghe (Author), François-Xavier Weill (Author), Jan Jacobs (Author), Willy E Peetermans (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2017-09-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Enteric fever remains a major public health problem in low resource settings and antibiotic resistance is increasing. In Asia, an increasing proportion of infections is caused by Salmonella enterica serovar Paratyphi A, which for a long time was assumed to cause a milder clinical syndrome compared t...