Environmental sampling for typhoidal Salmonellas in household and surface waters in Nepal identifies potential transmission pathways.

• Main Authors: Christopher LeBoa (Author), Sneha Shrestha (Author), Jivan Shakya (Author), Shiva Ram Naga (Author), Sony Shrestha (Author), Mudita Shakya (Author), Alexander T Yu (Author), Rajeev Shrestha (Author), Krista Vaidya (Author), Nishan Katuwal (Author), Kristen Aiemjoy (Author), Isaac I Bogoch (Author), Christopher B Uzzell (Author), Denise O Garrett (Author), Stephen P Luby (Author), Jason R Andrews (Author), Dipesh Tamrakar (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2023-10-01T00:00:00Z.
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<h4>Introduction</h4>Salmonella Typhi and Salmonella Paratyphi, fecal-oral transmitted bacterium, have temporally and geographically heterogeneous pathways of transmission. Previous work in Kathmandu, Nepal implicated stone waterspouts as a dominant transmission pathway after 77% of samp...