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. 2005 Feb;11(2):326-9.
doi: 10.3201/eid1102.040422.

Bacteremic typhoid fever in children in an urban slum, Bangladesh

W Abdullah Brooks  1 , Anowar Hossain, Doli Goswami, Kamrun Nahar, Khorshed Alam, Noor Ahmed, Aliya Naheed, G Balarish Nair, Stephen Luby, Robert F Breiman
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Bacteremic typhoid fever in children in an urban slum, Bangladesh

W Abdullah Brooks et al. Emerg Infect Dis. 2005 Feb.

Abstract

We confirmed a bacteremic typhoid fever incidence of 3.9 episodes/1,000 person-years during fever surveillance in a Dhaka urban slum. The relative risk for preschool children compared with older persons was 8.9. Our regression model showed that these children were clinically ill, which suggests a role for preschool immunization.

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Distribution of typhoid fever by age.
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Age distribution of patients <5 years of age with typhoid fever.
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