Molecular Surveillance Identifies Multiple Transmissions of Typhoid in West Africa.

• Main Authors: International Typhoid Consortium (Author), Vanessa K Wong (Author), Kathryn E Holt (Author), Chinyere Okoro (Author), Stephen Baker (Author), Derek J Pickard (Author), Florian Marks (Author), Andrew J Page (Author), Grace Olanipekun (Author), Huda Munir (Author), Roxanne Alter (Author), Paul D Fey (Author), Nicholas A Feasey (Author), Francois-Xavier Weill (Author), Simon Le Hello (Author), Peter J Hart (Author), Samuel Kariuki (Author), Robert F Breiman (Author), Melita A Gordon (Author), Robert S Heyderman (Author), Jan Jacobs (Author), Octavie Lunguya (Author), Chisomo Msefula (Author), Calman A MacLennan (Author), Karen H Keddy (Author), Anthony M Smith (Author), Robert S Onsare (Author), Elizabeth De Pinna (Author), Satheesh Nair (Author), Ben Amos (Author), Gordon Dougan (Author), Stephen Obaro (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2016-09-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
• Online Access: Connect to this object online.

BACKGROUND:The burden of typhoid in sub-Saharan African (SSA) countries has been difficult to estimate, in part, due to suboptimal laboratory diagnostics. However, surveillance blood cultures at two sites in Nigeria have identified typhoid associated with Salmonella enterica serovar Typhi (S. Typhi)...