Modeling the Potential for Vaccination to Diminish the Burden of Invasive Non-typhoidal Salmonella Disease in Young Children in Mali, West Africa.

• Main Authors: Kristin Bornstein (Author), Laura Hungerford (Author), David Hartley (Author), John D Sorkin (Author), Milagritos D Tapia (Author), Samba O Sow (Author), Uma Onwuchekwa (Author), Raphael Simon (Author), Sharon M Tennant (Author), Myron M Levine (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2017-02-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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BACKGROUND:In sub-Saharan Africa, systematic surveillance of young children with suspected invasive bacterial disease (e.g., septicemia, meningitis) has revealed non-typhoidal Salmonella (NTS) to be a major pathogen exhibiting high case fatality (~20%). Where infant vaccination against Haemophilus i...