Clinical and epidemiological features of typhoid fever in Pemba, Zanzibar: assessment of the performance of the WHO case definitions.

Clinical and epidemiological features of typhoid fever in Pemba, Zanzibar: assessment of the performance of the WHO case definitions.

BACKGROUND: The gold standard for diagnosis of typhoid fever is blood culture (BC). Because blood culture is often not available in impoverished settings it would be helpful to have alternative diagnostic approaches. We therefore investigated the usefulness of clinical signs, WHO case definition and...

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Main Authors: Kamala Thriemer, Benedikt Ley, Shaali S Ame, Jaqueline L Deen, Gi Deok Pak, Na Yoon Chang, Ramadhan Hashim, Wolfgang Hellmut Schmied, Clara Jana-Lui Busch, Shanette Nixon, Anne Morrissey, Mahesh K Puri, R Leon Ochiai, Thomas Wierzba, John D Clemens, Mohammad Ali, Mohammad S Jiddawi, Lorenz von Seidlein, Said M Ali
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2012-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3527440?pdf=render

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