A Large-Scale Community-Based Outbreak of Paratyphoid Fever Caused by Hospital-Derived Transmission in Southern China.

A Large-Scale Community-Based Outbreak of Paratyphoid Fever Caused by Hospital-Derived Transmission in Southern China.

BACKGROUND:Since the 1990s, paratyphoid fever caused by Salmonella Paratyphi A has emerged in Southeast Asia and China. In 2010, a large-scale outbreak involving 601 cases of paratyphoid fever occurred in the whole of Yuanjiang county in China. Epidemiological and laboratory investigations were cond...

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Main Authors: Meiying Yan, Bo Yang, Zhigang Wang, Shukun Wang, Xiaohe Zhang, Yanhua Zhou, Bo Pang, Baowei Diao, Rusong Yang, Shuyu Wu, John D Klena, Biao Kan
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2015-01-01
Series:PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4506061?pdf=render

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