Factors Associated with Non-typhoidal Salmonella Bacteremia versus Typhoidal Salmonella Bacteremia in Patients Presenting for Care in an Urban Diarrheal Disease Hospital in Bangladesh.

• Main Authors: K M Shahunja (Author), Daniel T Leung (Author), Tahmeed Ahmed (Author), Pradip Kumar Bardhan (Author), Dilruba Ahmed (Author), Firdausi Qadri (Author), Edward T Ryan (Author), Mohammod Jobayer Chisti (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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BACKGROUND:Non-typhoidal Salmonella (NTS) and Salmonella enterica serovar Typhi bacteremia are the causes of significant morbidity and mortality worldwide. There is a paucity of data regarding NTS bacteremia in South Asia, a region with a high incidence of typhoidal bacteremia. We sought to determin...