A Large-Scale Community-Based Outbreak of Paratyphoid Fever Caused by Hospital-Derived Transmission in Southern China.

• Main Authors: Meiying Yan (Author), Bo Yang (Author), Zhigang Wang (Author), Shukun Wang (Author), Xiaohe Zhang (Author), Yanhua Zhou (Author), Bo Pang (Author), Baowei Diao (Author), Rusong Yang (Author), Shuyu Wu (Author), John D Klena (Author), Biao Kan (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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BACKGROUND:Since the 1990s, paratyphoid fever caused by Salmonella Paratyphi A has emerged in Southeast Asia and China. In 2010, a large-scale outbreak involving 601 cases of paratyphoid fever occurred in the whole of Yuanjiang county in China. Epidemiological and laboratory investigations were cond...