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Increased risk for malaria in chronically malnourished children under 5 years of age in rural Gambia.

, 2002
Malaria and malnutrition cause high morbidity and mortality in rural sub-Saharan Africa. To explore the relationship between nutritional status and malaria, a cohort of Gambian children under 5 years of age was followed weekly during one malaria season ...
Deen, JL, von Seidlein, L, Walraven, GEL
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Geographical distribution of typhoid risk factors in low and middle income countries [PDF]

, 2016
Overdispersion. Appendix 2. Full specification of regression outputs. Appendix 3. TRF index (type 5) by sub-national boundary. Appendix 4. Final TRF index values by sub-national boundary. Appendix 5. TRF index in Bangladesh.
Jung-Seok Lee, Kangsung Lee, Vijayalaxmi V. Mogasale, Vittal Mogasale   +3 more
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Differences in perception of dysentery and enteric fever and willingness to receive vaccines among rural residents in China.

, 2006
BACKGROUND: Enteric diseases including dysentery and enteric fever remain significant public health problems in China. While vaccines offer great potential in controlling these diseases, greater understanding of factors influencing acceptance of vaccines
Chen, Xinguang, Clemens, John, Gong, Youlong, Kaljee, Linda, Mao, Rong, Nyamette, Andrew, Pach, Alfred, Pack, Robert, Stanton, Bonita, von Seidlein, Lorenz, Wang, Xuanyi   +10 more
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The STRATAA study protocol: a programme to assess the burden of enteric fever in Bangladesh, Malawi and Nepal using prospective population census, passive surveillance, serological studies and healthcare utilisation surveys. [PDF]

, 2017
Introduction Invasive infections caused by Salmonella enterica serovar Typhi and Paratyphi A are estimated to account for 12–27 million febrile illness episodes worldwide annually.
Baker, S., Basnyat, B., Clemens, J.D., Darton, T.C., Dolecek, C., Dougan, G., Dunstan, S.J., Gordon, M.A., Heyderman, R.S., Holt, K.E., Khan, M.A., Khanam, F., Meiring, J.E., Pitzer, V.E., Pollard, A.J., Qadri, F., Shakya, M., STRATAA Study Consortium, ., Thindwa, D., Tonks, S., Zaman, K.   +20 more
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Mass administrations of antimalarial drugs.

, 2003
Administration of antimalarial drugs to whole populations has been used as a malaria-control measure for more than 70 years. Drugs have been administered either directly as a full therapeutic course of treatment or indirectly through the fortification of
Greenwood, Brian M, von Seidlein, Lorenz
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Extensive in vivo resilience of persistent Salmonella [PDF]

, 2012
Chronic infections caused by persistent pathogens represent an important health problem. Here, we establish a simple practical mouse Salmonella infection model for identifying bacterial maintenance functions that are essential for persistency.
Barat, Somedutta, Bumann, Dirk, Mazé, Alain, Steeb, Benjamin   +3 more
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Evaluation of WGS-subtyping methods for epidemiological surveillance of foodborne salmonellosis [PDF]

, 2020
Background: Salmonellosis is one of the most common foodborne diseases worldwide. Although human infection by non-typhoidal Salmonella (NTS) enterica subspecies enterica is associated primarily with a self-limiting diarrhoeal illness, invasive bacterial ...
Mohammed, M., Mohammed, M., Thapa, S., Thapa, S.   +3 more
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A Highly Effective Component Vaccine against Nontyphoidal Salmonella enterica Infections

mBio, 2015
Nontyphoidal Salmonella enterica (NTS) infections are a major burden to global public health, as they lead to diseases ranging from gastroenteritis to systemic infections and there is currently no vaccine available.
Rosana B. R. Ferreira, Yanet Valdez, Brian K. Coombes, Subash Sad, Joost W. Gouw, Eric M. Brown, Yuling Li, Guntram A. Grassl, L. Caetano M. Antunes, Navkiran Gill, Mimi Truong, Roland Scholz, Lisa A. Reynolds, Laskshmi Krishnan, Ahmed A. Zafer, Neta Sal-Man, Michael J. Lowden, Sigrid D. Auweter, Leonard J. Foster, B. Brett Finlay   +19 more
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Multilocus sequence typing (MLST) analysis of Vibrio cholerae O1 El Tor isolates from Mozambique that harbour the classical CTX prophage.

, 2006
Vibrio cholerae O1 isolates belonging to the Ogawa serotype, El Tor biotype, harbouring the classical CTX prophage were first isolated in Mozambique in 2004.
Ansaruzzaman, M, Choi, Seon Young, Chun, Jongsik, Clemens, John D, Han, Kyung Ho, Kim, Dong Wook, Lee, Je Hee, Lucas, Marcelino ES, Mondlane, C, Nair, G Balakrish, Sack, David A, Song, Manki, The Mozambique Cholera Vaccine Demonstration Project Coordinatio, von Seidlein, Lorenz   +13 more
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IncHI plasmids, a dynamic link between resistance and pathogenicity [PDF]

, 2008
Plasmids of incompatibility group (Inc) HI1 are important vectors of antibiotic resistance in both of the major causal agents of enteric fever: Salmonella enterica subspecies enterica serovar Typhi and S. Paratyphi A. In S.
Phan, Minh-Duy, Wain, John
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