A cross-sectional seroepidemiological survey of typhoid fever in Fiji.

• Main Authors: Conall H Watson (Author), Stephen Baker (Author), Colleen L Lau (Author), Kitione Rawalai (Author), Mere Taufa (Author), Jerimaia Coriakula (Author), Nga Tran Vu Thieu (Author), Tan Trinh Van (Author), Dung Tran Thi Ngoc (Author), Niel Hens (Author), John H Lowry (Author), Ruklanthi de Alwis (Author), Jorge Cano (Author), Kylie Jenkins (Author), E Kim Mulholland (Author), Eric J Nilles (Author), Mike Kama (Author), W John Edmunds (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2017-07-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Fiji, an upper-middle income state in the Pacific Ocean, has experienced an increase in confirmed case notifications of enteric fever caused by Salmonella enterica serovar Typhi (S. Typhi). To characterize the epidemiology of typhoid exposure, we conducted a cross-sectional sero-epidemiological surv...