The Severe Typhoid Fever in Africa Program Highlights the Need for Broad Deployment of Typhoid Conjugate Vaccines.
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- Record sourced from PubMed, PMID 31665775.
- Also identified by DOI 10.1093/cid/ciz637 and PMC identifier 6821154.
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Abstract
The Typhoid Surveillance in Africa Program (TSAP) and the Severe Typhoid Fever in Africa (SETA) program have refined our understanding of age and geographic distribution of typhoid fever and other invasive salmonelloses in Africa and will help inform future typhoid control strategies, namely, introduction of typhoid conjugate vaccines.
Medical subject headings
- Typhoid Fever
- Typhoid-Paratyphoid Vaccines