Spatiotemporal transmission and determinants of typhoid and paratyphoid fever in Hongta District, Yunnan Province, China.

• Main Authors: Jin-Feng Wang (Author), Yan Wang (Author), Jing Zhang (Author), George Christakos (Author), Jun-Ling Sun (Author), Xin Liu (Author), Lin Lu (Author), Xiao-Qing Fu (Author), Yu-Qiong Shi (Author), Xue-Mei Li (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2013-01-01T00:00:00Z.
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BACKGROUND: Typhoid and paratyphoid fever are endemic in Hongta District and their prevalence, at 113 per 100,000 individuals, remains the highest in China. However, the exact sources of the disease and its main epidemiological characteristics have not yet been clearly identified. METHODS AND FINDIN...