The burden of typhoid fever in low- and middle-income countries: A meta-regression approach.

• Main Authors: Marina Antillón (Author), Joshua L Warren (Author), Forrest W Crawford (Author), Daniel M Weinberger (Author), Esra Kürüm (Author), Gi Deok Pak (Author), Florian Marks (Author), Virginia E Pitzer (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2017-02-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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BACKGROUND:Upcoming vaccination efforts against typhoid fever require an assessment of the baseline burden of disease in countries at risk. There are no typhoid incidence data from most low- and middle-income countries (LMICs), so model-based estimates offer insights for decision-makers in the absen...