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. 2010 Nov;16(11):1796-7.
doi: 10.3201/eid1611.100388.

Typhoid fever among children, Ghana

Florian Marks, Yaw Adu-Sarkodie, Frank Hünger, Nimako Sarpong, Samuel Ekuban, Alex Agyekum, Bernard Nkrumah, Norbert G Schwarz, Michael O Favorov, Christian G Meyer, Jürgen May

Typhoid fever among children, Ghana

Florian Marks et al. Emerg Infect Dis. 2010 Nov.
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Age-stratified proportion of blood cultures positive for any bacteria without the exception of contaminants (black columns) and of blood cultures positive for Salmonella enterica serovar Typhi (white columns); denominator is the total number of blood cultures performed. Age groups and numbers of hospitalized children who had blood cultured were as follows: <2 years (771 children), 2 to <5 years (415), 5 to <8 years (152), 8 to <11 years (78), and 11 to <15 years (40).
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