Use of population-based surveillance to define the high incidence of shigellosis in an urban slum in Nairobi, Kenya.

Use of population-based surveillance to define the high incidence of shigellosis in an urban slum in Nairobi, Kenya.

BACKGROUND: Worldwide, Shigella causes an estimated 160 million infections and >1 million deaths annually. However, limited incidence data are available from African urban slums. We investigated the epidemiology of shigellosis and drug susceptibility patterns within a densely populated urban sett...

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Main Authors: Henry N Njuguna, Leonard Cosmas, John Williamson, Dhillon Nyachieo, Beatrice Olack, John B Ochieng, Newton Wamola, Joseph O Oundo, Daniel R Feikin, Eric D Mintz, Robert F Breiman
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2013-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3591331?pdf=render

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