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Comment
. 2014 Jul 1:3:e03545.
doi: 10.7554/eLife.03545.

Honing in on enteric fever

Lyle R McKinnon  1 , Quarraisha Abdool Karim  2
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Honing in on enteric fever

Lyle R McKinnon et al. Elife. .

Abstract

The use of metabolomics could lead to improved diagnostics for enteric fever.

Keywords: Salmonella Paratyphi A; Salmonella Typhi; enteric fever; mass spectrometry; metabolites; typhoid.

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Competing interests:The authors declare that no competing interests exist.

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