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Huang S, Yan M, Kan B. Prevalence and Influencing Factor Analysis of Typhoid/Paratyphoid Fever - China, 2011-2020. China CDC Wkly 2024; 6:493-498. [PMID: 38854465 PMCID: PMC11154109 DOI: 10.46234/ccdcw2024.095] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/02/2024] [Accepted: 05/08/2024] [Indexed: 06/11/2024] Open
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Introduction Over the last 12 years, there has been a consistent decline in the cases of typhoid/paratyphoid fever in China. Studying the epidemiological patterns of these diseases in various provincial-level administrative divisions (PLADs) and examining potential influencing factors can provide crucial information for implementing successful control strategies. Methods In this study, we analyzed the cases and incidence rates of typhoid/paratyphoid fever reported in various PLADs of China from 2011 to 2022, along with exploring potential influencing factors. We initially studied spatial shifts in the incidence rates through centroid shift analysis. Seasonal variations in typhoid/paratyphoid fever onset were examined using heatmaps. Spatial autocorrelation analysis was utilized to understand the spatial correlations among different PLADs. To assess potential factors, we utilized a generalized estimating equations model that integrated spatial lag effects and sequence comparison analysis. Results The study identified significant geographical clustering of typhoid/paratyphoid fever cases in southwestern China. A decrease in incidence rates in the west resulted in a movement of the disease center towards the east. Higher incidence occurred during warmer seasons, highlighting the seasonal pattern of the diseases. Factors such as meteorological conditions and socioeconomic status were probable influencers of typhoid/paratyphoid fever. Conclusions The geographical and temporal spread of typhoid/paratyphoid fever can be impacted by meteorological and socioeconomic factors. Enhancing economic conditions, particularly in regions with high disease prevalence, could aid in the prevention and management of these fevers.
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- Shumei Huang
- School of Public Health, Shandong University, Jinan City, Shandong Province, China
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- National Key Laboratory of Intelligent Tracking and Forecasting for Infectious Diseases, National Institute for Communicable Disease Control and Prevention, Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Beijing, China
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- School of Public Health, Shandong University, Jinan City, Shandong Province, China
- National Key Laboratory of Intelligent Tracking and Forecasting for Infectious Diseases, National Institute for Communicable Disease Control and Prevention, Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Beijing, China
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Atlas HE, Conteh B, Islam MT, Jere KC, Omore R, Sanogo D, Schiaffino F, Yousafzai MT, Ahmed N, Awuor AO, Badji H, Cornick J, Feutz E, Galagan SR, Haidara FC, Horne B, Hossen MI, Hotwani A, Houpt ER, Jallow AF, Karim M, Keita AM, Keita Y, Khanam F, Liu J, Malemia T, Manneh A, McGrath CJ, Nasrin D, Ndalama M, Ochieng JB, Ogwel B, Paredes Olortegui M, Zegarra Paredes LF, Pinedo Vasquez T, Platts-Mills JA, Qudrat-E-Khuda S, Qureshi S, Hasan Rajib MN, Rogawski McQuade ET, Sultana S, Tennant SM, Tickell KD, Witte D, Peñataro Yori P, Cunliffe NA, Hossain MJ, Kosek MN, Kotloff KL, Qadri F, Qamar FN, Tapia MD, Pavlinac PB. Diarrhea Case Surveillance in the Enterics for Global Health Shigella Surveillance Study: Epidemiologic Methods. Open Forum Infect Dis 2024; 11:S6-S16. [PMID: 38532963 PMCID: PMC10962728 DOI: 10.1093/ofid/ofad664] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 03/28/2024] Open
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Background Shigella is a leading cause of acute watery diarrhea, dysentery, and diarrhea-attributed linear growth faltering, a precursor to stunting and lifelong morbidity. Several promising Shigella vaccines are in development and field efficacy trials will require a consortium of potential vaccine trial sites with up-to-date Shigella diarrhea incidence data. Methods The Enterics for Global Health (EFGH) Shigella surveillance study will employ facility-based enrollment of diarrhea cases aged 6-35 months with 3 months of follow-up to establish incidence rates and document clinical, anthropometric, and financial consequences of Shigella diarrhea at 7 country sites (Mali, Kenya, The Gambia, Malawi, Bangladesh, Pakistan, and Peru). Over a 24-month period between 2022 and 2024, the EFGH study aims to enroll 9800 children (1400 per country site) between 6 and 35 months of age who present to local health facilities with diarrhea. Shigella species (spp.) will be identified and serotyped from rectal swabs by conventional microbiologic methods and quantitative polymerase chain reaction. Shigella spp. isolates will undergo serotyping and antimicrobial susceptibility testing. Incorporating population and healthcare utilization estimates from contemporaneous household sampling in the catchment areas of enrollment facilities, we will estimate Shigella diarrhea incidence rates. Conclusions This multicountry surveillance network will provide key incidence data needed to design Shigella vaccine trials and strengthen readiness for potential trial implementation. Data collected in EFGH will inform policy makers about the relative importance of this vaccine-preventable disease, accelerating the time to vaccine availability and uptake among children in high-burden settings.
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- Hannah E Atlas
- Department of Global Health, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA
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- Medical Research Council Unit The Gambia, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, Fajara, The Gambia
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- Infectious Diseases Division, International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh, Dhaka, Bangladesh
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- Malawi Liverpool Wellcome Programme, Blantyre, Malawi
- Department of Clinical Infection, Microbiology and Immunology, Institute of Infection, Veterinary and Ecological Sciences, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom
- Department of Medical Laboratory Sciences, Kamuzu University of Health Sciences, School of Life Sciences and Health Professions, Blantyre, Malawi
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- Centre for Global Health Research, Kenya Medical Research Institute, Kisumu, Kenya
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- Centre pour le Développement des Vaccins du Mali, Bamako, Mali
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- Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia, Lima, Peru
- Division of Infectious Diseases and International Health University of Virginia, School of Medicine, Charlottesville, Virginia, USA
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- Department of Pediatrics and Child Health, The Aga Khan University, Karachi, Pakistan
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- Centre for Global Health Research, Kenya Medical Research Institute, Kisumu, Kenya
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- Medical Research Council Unit The Gambia, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, Fajara, The Gambia
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- Malawi Liverpool Wellcome Programme, Blantyre, Malawi
- Department of Clinical Infection, Microbiology and Immunology, Institute of Infection, Veterinary and Ecological Sciences, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom
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- Department of Global Health, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA
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- Department of Global Health, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA
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- Center for Vaccine Development and Global Health, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
- Department of Medicine, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
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- Infectious Diseases Division, International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh, Dhaka, Bangladesh
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- Department of Pediatrics and Child Health, The Aga Khan University, Karachi, Pakistan
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- Division of Infectious Diseases and International Health University of Virginia, School of Medicine, Charlottesville, Virginia, USA
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- Medical Research Council Unit The Gambia, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, Fajara, The Gambia
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- Medical Research Council Unit The Gambia, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, Fajara, The Gambia
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- Centre pour le Développement des Vaccins du Mali, Bamako, Mali
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- Infectious Diseases Division, International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh, Dhaka, Bangladesh
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- School of Public Health, Qingdao University, Qingdao, China
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- Medical Research Council Unit The Gambia, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, Fajara, The Gambia
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- Department of Global Health, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA
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- Center for Vaccine Development and Global Health, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
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- Centre for Global Health Research, Kenya Medical Research Institute, Kisumu, Kenya
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- Division of Infectious Diseases and International Health University of Virginia, School of Medicine, Charlottesville, Virginia, USA
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- Infectious Diseases Division, International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh, Dhaka, Bangladesh
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- Department of Pediatrics and Child Health, The Aga Khan University, Karachi, Pakistan
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- Infectious Diseases Division, International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh, Dhaka, Bangladesh
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- Department of Pediatrics and Child Health, The Aga Khan University, Karachi, Pakistan
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- Center for Vaccine Development and Global Health, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
- Department of Medicine, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
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- Department of Global Health, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA
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- Malawi Liverpool Wellcome Programme, Blantyre, Malawi
- Department of Clinical Infection, Microbiology and Immunology, Institute of Infection, Veterinary and Ecological Sciences, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom
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- Division of Infectious Diseases and International Health University of Virginia, School of Medicine, Charlottesville, Virginia, USA
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- Department of Clinical Infection, Microbiology and Immunology, Institute of Infection, Veterinary and Ecological Sciences, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom
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- Medical Research Council Unit The Gambia, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, Fajara, The Gambia
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- Division of Infectious Diseases and International Health University of Virginia, School of Medicine, Charlottesville, Virginia, USA
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- Center for Vaccine Development and Global Health, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
- Department of Medicine, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
- Department of Pediatrics, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
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- Infectious Diseases Division, International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh, Dhaka, Bangladesh
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- Department of Pediatrics and Child Health, The Aga Khan University, Karachi, Pakistan
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- Center for Vaccine Development and Global Health, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
- Department of Medicine, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
- Department of Pediatrics, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
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- Department of Global Health, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA
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Garrett DO, Longley AT, Aiemjoy K, Yousafzai MT, Hemlock C, Yu AT, Vaidya K, Tamrakar D, Saha S, Bogoch II, Date K, Saha S, Islam MS, Sayeed KMI, Bern C, Shakoor S, Dehraj IF, Mehmood J, Sajib MSI, Islam M, Thobani RS, Hotwani A, Rahman N, Irfan S, Naga SR, Memon AM, Pradhan S, Iqbal K, Shrestha R, Rahman H, Hasan MM, Qazi SH, Kazi AM, Saddal NS, Jamal R, Hunzai MJ, Hossain T, Marks F, Carter AS, Seidman JC, Qamar FN, Saha SK, Andrews JR, Luby SP. Incidence of typhoid and paratyphoid fever in Bangladesh, Nepal, and Pakistan: results of the Surveillance for Enteric Fever in Asia Project. Lancet Glob Health 2022; 10:e978-e988. [PMID: 35714648 PMCID: PMC9210262 DOI: 10.1016/s2214-109x(22)00119-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 35] [Impact Index Per Article: 17.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/12/2021] [Revised: 02/28/2022] [Accepted: 03/11/2022] [Indexed: 01/03/2023]
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BACKGROUND Precise enteric fever disease burden data are needed to inform prevention and control measures, including the use of newly available typhoid vaccines. We established the Surveillance for Enteric Fever in Asia Project (SEAP) to inform these strategies. METHODS From September, 2016, to September, 2019, we conducted prospective clinical surveillance for Salmonella enterica serotype Typhi (S Typhi) and Paratyphi (S Paratyphi) A, B, and C at health facilities in predetermined catchment areas in Dhaka, Bangladesh; Kathmandu and Kavrepalanchok, Nepal; and Karachi, Pakistan. Patients eligible for inclusion were outpatients with 3 or more consecutive days of fever in the last 7 days; inpatients with suspected or confirmed enteric fever; patients with blood culture-confirmed enteric fever from the hospital laboratories not captured by inpatient or outpatient enrolment and cases from the laboratory network; and patients with non-traumatic ileal perforation under surgical care. We used a hybrid surveillance model, pairing facility-based blood culture surveillance with community surveys of health-care use. Blood cultures were performed for enrolled patients. We calculated overall and age-specific typhoid and paratyphoid incidence estimates for each study site. Adjusted estimates accounted for the sensitivity of blood culture, the proportion of eligible individuals who consented and provided blood, the probability of care-seeking at a study facility, and the influence of wealth and education on care-seeking. We additionally calculated incidence of hospitalisation due to typhoid and paratyphoid. FINDINGS A total of 34 747 patients were enrolled across 23 facilitates (six tertiary hospitals, surgical wards of two additional hospitals, and 15 laboratory network sites) during the study period. Of the 34 303 blood cultures performed on enrolled patients, 8705 (26%) were positive for typhoidal Salmonella. Adjusted incidence rates of enteric fever considered patients in the six tertiary hospitals. Adjusted incidence of S Typhi, expressed per 100 000 person-years, was 913 (95% CI 765-1095) in Dhaka. In Nepal, the adjusted typhoid incidence rates were 330 (230-480) in Kathmandu and 268 (202-362) in Kavrepalanchok. In Pakistan, the adjusted incidence rates per hospital site were 176 (144-216) and 103 (85-126). The adjusted incidence rates of paratyphoid (of which all included cases were due to S Paratyphi A) were 128 (107-154) in Bangladesh, 46 (34-62) and 81 (56-118) in the Nepal sites, and 23 (19-29) and 1 (1-1) in the Pakistan sites. Adjusted incidence of hospitalisation was high across sites, and overall, 2804 (32%) of 8705 patients with blood culture-confirmed enteric fever were hospitalised. INTERPRETATION Across diverse communities in three south Asian countries, adjusted incidence exceeded the threshold for "high burden" of enteric fever (100 per 100 000 person-years). Incidence was highest among children, although age patterns differed across sites. The substantial disease burden identified highlights the need for control measures, including improvements to water and sanitation infrastructure and the implementation of typhoid vaccines. FUNDING Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
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- Denise O Garrett
- Applied Epidemiology, Sabin Vaccine Institute, Washington, DC, USA.
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- National Foundation for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA, USA; Global Immunization Division, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA, USA
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- Department of Public Health Sciences, University of California Davis, Davis, CA, USA
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- Department of Pediatrics and Child Health, Aga Khan University, Karachi, Pakistan
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- Applied Epidemiology, Sabin Vaccine Institute, Washington, DC, USA
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- Division of Infectious Diseases and Geographic Medicine, School of Medicine, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA
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- Dhulikhel Hospital, Kathmandu University Hospital, Kavrepalanchok, Nepal
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- Dhulikhel Hospital, Kathmandu University Hospital, Kavrepalanchok, Nepal
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- Child Health Research Foundation, Dhaka, Bangladesh
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- Department of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada
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- Global Immunization Division, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA, USA
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- Child Health Research Foundation, Dhaka, Bangladesh
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- Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA
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- Department of Pediatrics and Child Health, Aga Khan University, Karachi, Pakistan; Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Aga Khan University, Karachi, Pakistan
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- Department of Pediatrics and Child Health, Aga Khan University, Karachi, Pakistan
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- Department of Pediatrics and Child Health, Aga Khan University, Karachi, Pakistan
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- Department of Pediatrics and Child Health, Aga Khan University, Karachi, Pakistan
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- Department of Pediatrics and Child Health, Aga Khan University, Karachi, Pakistan
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- Department of Pediatrics and Child Health, Aga Khan University, Karachi, Pakistan
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- Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Aga Khan University, Karachi, Pakistan
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- Dhulikhel Hospital, Kathmandu University Hospital, Kavrepalanchok, Nepal
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- Kathmandu Medical College Teaching Hospital, Kathmandu, Nepal
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- Dhulikhel Hospital, Kathmandu University Hospital, Kavrepalanchok, Nepal
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- Department of Surgery, Aga Khan University, Karachi, Pakistan
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- Department of Pediatrics and Child Health, Aga Khan University, Karachi, Pakistan
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- National Institute of Child Health, Karachi, Pakistan
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- Department of Pediatrics and Child Health, Aga Khan University, Karachi, Pakistan
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- Maternal and Child Health Division, icddr,b, Dhaka, Bangladesh
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- International Vaccine Institute, Seoul, South Korea; Cambridge Institute of Therapeutic Immunology and Infectious Disease, University of Cambridge School of Clinical Medicine, Cambridge, UK; University of Antananarivo, Antananarivo, Madagascar; Heidelberg Institute of Global Health, University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
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- Applied Epidemiology, Sabin Vaccine Institute, Washington, DC, USA
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- Department of Pediatrics and Child Health, Aga Khan University, Karachi, Pakistan
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- Child Health Research Foundation, Dhaka, Bangladesh; Bangladesh Institute of Child Health, Dhaka Shishu Hospital, Dhaka, Bangladesh
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- Division of Infectious Diseases and Geographic Medicine, School of Medicine, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA
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- Division of Infectious Diseases and Geographic Medicine, School of Medicine, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA
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Serology as a Tool to Assess Infectious Disease Landscapes and Guide Public Health Policy. Pathogens 2022; 11:pathogens11070732. [PMID: 35889978 PMCID: PMC9323579 DOI: 10.3390/pathogens11070732] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/14/2022] [Revised: 06/10/2022] [Accepted: 06/16/2022] [Indexed: 01/27/2023] Open
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Understanding the local burden and epidemiology of infectious diseases is crucial to guide public health policy and prioritize interventions. Typically, infectious disease surveillance relies on capturing clinical cases within a healthcare system, classifying cases by etiology and enumerating cases over a period of time. Disease burden is often then extrapolated to the general population. Serology (i.e., examining serum for the presence of pathogen-specific antibodies) has long been used to inform about individuals past exposure and immunity to specific pathogens. However, it has been underutilized as a tool to evaluate the infectious disease burden landscape at the population level and guide public health decisions. In this review, we outline how serology provides a powerful tool to complement case-based surveillance for determining disease burden and epidemiology of infectious diseases, highlighting its benefits and limitations. We describe the current serology-based technologies and illustrate their use with examples from both the pre- and post- COVID-19-pandemic context. In particular, we review the challenges to and opportunities in implementing serological surveillance in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs), which bear the brunt of the global infectious disease burden. Finally, we discuss the relevance of serology data for public health decision-making and describe scenarios in which this data could be used, either independently or in conjunction with case-based surveillance. We conclude that public health systems would greatly benefit from the inclusion of serology to supplement and strengthen existing case-based infectious disease surveillance strategies.
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Samuel P, Njarekkattuvalappil SK, Kumar D, Raju R, Andrews JR, Kang G, John J. Case-Fatality Ratio of Enteric Fever: Estimates From Multitiered Surveillance in India. J Infect Dis 2021; 224:S517-S521. [PMID: 35238359 PMCID: PMC8892535 DOI: 10.1093/infdis/jiab388] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/01/2021] [Accepted: 07/22/2021] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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Background The case-fatality ratio (CFR) for enteric fever is essential for estimating disease burden and calibrating measures that balance the likely health gains from interventions against social and economic costs. Methods We aimed to estimate the CFR for enteric fever using multiple data sources within the National Surveillance System for Enteric Fever in India. This surveillance (2017–2020) was established as a multitiered surveillance system including community cohorts (tier 1), facility-based (tier 2), and tertiary care surveillance (tier 3) for estimating the burden of enteric fever in India. The CFR was calculated after accounting for healthcare-seeking behavior for enteric fever and deaths occurring outside the hospital. Results A total of 1236 hospitalized patients with blood culture–confirmed enteric fever were enrolled, of which 9 fatal cases were identified, for an estimated hospitalized CFR of 0.73% (95% confidence interval [CI], .33%–1.38%). After adjusting for severity, healthcare-seeking behavior, and deaths occurring out-of-hospital, the CFR was estimated to be 0.16% (95% CI, .07%–.29%) for all enteric fevers. Conclusions Our estimates of the CFR are relatively lower than previously estimated, accounting for care-seeking behavior and deaths outside the hospital.
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- Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California,USA
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- Christian Medical College, Vellore,India
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Raju R, Kezia Angelin J, Karthikeyan AS, Kumar D, Kumar R R, Sahai N, Ramanujam K, Murhekar M, Elangovan A, Samuel P, John J, Kang G. Healthcare Utilization Survey in the Hybrid Model of the Surveillance for Enteric Fever in India (SEFI) Study: Processes, Monitoring, Results, and Challenges. J Infect Dis 2021; 224:S529-S539. [PMID: 35238353 PMCID: PMC8914874 DOI: 10.1093/infdis/jiab371] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022] Open
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Background Lack of reliable data in India drove the “Surveillance of Enteric Fever in India” (SEFI) concept. Hybrid surveillance, combining facility-based surveillance for the crude incidence, and a community-based healthcare utilization survey (HCUS) to calculate the factor needed to arrive at the adjusted incidence, was used in 6 sites. The HCUS aimed to determine the percentage of utilization of study facilities by the catchment population for hospitalizations due to febrile illness. Methods Population proportional to size sampling and systematic random sampling, in 2 stages, were used to survey 5000 households per site. Healthcare utilization was assessed. Results Febrile illness accounted for 20% of admissions among 137 990 individuals from 30 308 households. Only 9.6%–38.3% of those admitted with febrile illness sought care in the study hospitals. The rate of rural utilization of the private sector for hospitalization was 67.6%. The rate of hospitalization for febrile illness, per 1000 population, ranged from 2.6 in Manali to 9.6 in Anantapur; for 25.8% of the deaths associated with febrile illness, no facility was used before death. Conclusions One in 5 hospitalizations were associated with fever. Rural utilization of the private sector for hospitalization due to febrile illness was more than that of the public sector. Healthcare utilization patterns for hospital admissions due to febrile illness varied across sites. A meticulously performed HCUS is pivotal for accurate incidence estimation in a hybrid surveillance. Clinical Trials Registration ISRCTN72938224.
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- Reshma Raju
- Department of Paediatrics, Christian Medical College Vellore, Vellore, India
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- Department of Gastrointestinal Sciences, Christian Medical College Vellore, Vellore, India
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- Department of Gastrointestinal Sciences, Christian Medical College Vellore, Vellore, India
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- Department of Gastrointestinal Sciences, Christian Medical College Vellore, Vellore, India
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- Department of Gastrointestinal Sciences, Christian Medical College Vellore, Vellore, India
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- Department of Gastrointestinal Sciences, Christian Medical College Vellore, Vellore, India
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- Department of Gastrointestinal Sciences, Christian Medical College Vellore, Vellore, India
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- National Institute of Epidemiology, Indian Council of Medical Research, Chennai, India
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- National Institute of Epidemiology, Indian Council of Medical Research, Chennai, India
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- Department of Gastrointestinal Sciences, Christian Medical College Vellore, Vellore, India
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- Department of Community Health, Christian Medical College Vellore, Vellore, India
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- Department of Paediatrics, Christian Medical College Vellore, Vellore, India
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Carey ME, MacWright WR, Im J, Meiring JE, Gibani MM, Park SE, Longley A, Jeon HJ, Hemlock C, Yu AT, Soura A, Aiemjoy K, Owusu-Dabo E, Terferi M, Islam S, Lunguya O, Jacobs J, Gordon M, Dolecek C, Baker S, Pitzer VE, Yousafzai MT, Tonks S, Clemens JD, Date K, Qadri F, Heyderman RS, Saha SK, Basnyat B, Okeke IN, Qamar FN, Voysey M, Luby S, Kang G, Andrews J, Pollard AJ, John J, Garrett D, Marks F. The Surveillance for Enteric Fever in Asia Project (SEAP), Severe Typhoid Fever Surveillance in Africa (SETA), Surveillance of Enteric Fever in India (SEFI), and Strategic Typhoid Alliance Across Africa and Asia (STRATAA) Population-based Enteric Fever Studies: A Review of Methodological Similarities and Differences. Clin Infect Dis 2021; 71:S102-S110. [PMID: 32725221 PMCID: PMC7388711 DOI: 10.1093/cid/ciaa367] [Citation(s) in RCA: 35] [Impact Index Per Article: 11.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/21/2022] Open
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Building on previous multicountry surveillance studies of typhoid and others salmonelloses such as the Diseases of the Most Impoverished program and the Typhoid Surveillance in Africa Project, several ongoing blood culture surveillance studies are generating important data about incidence, severity, transmission, and clinical features of invasive Salmonella infections in sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia. These studies are also characterizing drug resistance patterns in their respective study sites. Each study answers a different set of research questions and employs slightly different methodologies, and the geographies under surveillance differ in size, population density, physician practices, access to healthcare facilities, and access to microbiologically safe water and improved sanitation. These differences in part reflect the heterogeneity of the epidemiology of invasive salmonellosis globally, and thus enable generation of data that are useful to policymakers in decision-making for the introduction of typhoid conjugate vaccines (TCVs). Moreover, each study is evaluating the large-scale deployment of TCVs, and may ultimately be used to assess post-introduction vaccine impact. The data generated by these studies will also be used to refine global disease burden estimates. It is important to ensure that lessons learned from these studies not only inform vaccination policy, but also are incorporated into sustainable, low-cost, integrated vaccine-preventable disease surveillance systems.
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- Megan E Carey
- Department of Medicine, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom
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- International Vaccine Institute, SNU Research Park, Seoul, Republic of Korea
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- Oxford Vaccine Group, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom.,Malawi-Liverpool-Wellcome Trust Clinical Research Programme, Blantyre, Malawi
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- Malawi-Liverpool-Wellcome Trust Clinical Research Programme, Blantyre, Malawi.,Department of Infectious Diseases, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom
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- International Vaccine Institute, SNU Research Park, Seoul, Republic of Korea
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- Global Immunization Division, Centers for Disease Control Foundation, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
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- Department of Medicine, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom.,International Vaccine Institute, SNU Research Park, Seoul, Republic of Korea
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- Division of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, University of California, Berkeley, California, USA
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- Division of Infectious Diseases and Geographic Medicine, Department of Medicine, Stanford University, Stanford, California, USA
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- Institut Supérieur des Sciences de la Population, University of Ouagadougou, Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso
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- Division of Infectious Diseases and Geographic Medicine, Department of Medicine, Stanford University, Stanford, California, USA
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- School of Medical Sciences, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana
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- Child Health Research Foundation, Department of Microbiology, Dhaka Shishu Hospital, Dhaka, Bangladesh
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- Department of Microbiology, Institut National de Recherche Biomédicale, Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo
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- Department of Clinical Sciences, Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium.,Department of Microbiology and Immunology, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium
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- Malawi-Liverpool-Wellcome Trust Clinical Research Programme, Blantyre, Malawi.,Institute of Infection and Global Health, University of Liverpool, United Kingdom
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- Centre for Tropical Medicine and Global Health, Nuffield Department of Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom.,Mahidol Oxford Tropical Medicine Research Unit, Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand
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- Department of Medicine, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom
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- Department of Epidemiology of Microbial Diseases, Yale School of Public Health, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
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- Oxford Vaccine Group, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
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- International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh, Dhaka, Bangladesh.,Fielding School of Public Health, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, USA
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- Global Immunization Division, Centers for Disease Control Foundation, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
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- International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh, Dhaka, Bangladesh
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- Division of Infection and Immunity, University College London, London, United Kingdom
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- Child Health Research Foundation, Department of Microbiology, Dhaka Shishu Hospital, Dhaka, Bangladesh
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- Centre for Tropical Medicine and Global Health, Nuffield Department of Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom.,Oxford University Clinical Research Unit, Patan Academy of Health Sciences, Kathmandu, Nepal
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- Department of Pharmaceutical Microbiology, Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Ibadan, Idaban, Nigeria
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- Department of Pediatrics and Child Health, Aga Khan University, Karachi, Pakistan
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- Oxford Vaccine Group, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
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- Division of Infectious Diseases and Geographic Medicine, Department of Medicine, Stanford University, Stanford, California, USA
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- Division of Infectious Diseases and Geographic Medicine, Department of Medicine, Stanford University, Stanford, California, USA
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- Oxford Vaccine Group, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
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- Christian Medical College, Vellore, India
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- Sabin Vaccine Institute, Washington, District of Columbia, USA
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- Department of Medicine, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom.,International Vaccine Institute, SNU Research Park, Seoul, Republic of Korea
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Cordovana M, Mauder N, Kostrzewa M, Wille A, Rojak S, Hagen RM, Ambretti S, Pongolini S, Soliani L, Justesen US, Holt HM, Join-Lambert O, Le Hello S, Auzou M, Veloo AC, May J, Frickmann H, Dekker D. Classification of Salmonella enterica of the (Para-)Typhoid Fever Group by Fourier-Transform Infrared (FTIR) Spectroscopy. Microorganisms 2021; 9:microorganisms9040853. [PMID: 33921159 PMCID: PMC8071548 DOI: 10.3390/microorganisms9040853] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/22/2021] [Revised: 04/05/2021] [Accepted: 04/07/2021] [Indexed: 12/31/2022] Open
Abstract
Typhoidal and para-typhoidal Salmonella are major causes of bacteraemia in resource-limited countries. Diagnostic alternatives to laborious and resource-demanding serotyping are essential. Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FTIRS) is a rapidly developing and simple bacterial typing technology. In this study, we assessed the discriminatory power of the FTIRS-based IR Biotyper (Bruker Daltonik GmbH, Bremen, Germany), for the rapid and reliable identification of biochemically confirmed typhoid and paratyphoid fever-associated Salmonella isolates. In total, 359 isolates, comprising 30 S. Typhi, 23 S. Paratyphi A, 23 S. Paratyphi B, and 7 S. Paratyphi C, respectively and other phylogenetically closely related Salmonella serovars belonging to the serogroups O:2, O:4, O:7 and O:9 were tested. The strains were derived from clinical, environmental and food samples collected at different European sites. Applying artificial neural networks, specific automated classifiers were built to discriminate typhoidal serovars from non-typhoidal serovars within each of the four serogroups. The accuracy of the classifiers was 99.9%, 87.0%, 99.5% and 99.0% for Salmonella Typhi, Salmonella Paratyphi A, B and Salmonella Paratyphi C, respectively. The IR Biotyper is a promising tool for fast and reliable detection of typhoidal Salmonella. Hence, IR biotyping may serve as a suitable alternative to conventional approaches for surveillance and diagnostic purposes.
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- Miriam Cordovana
- Bruker Daltonik GmbH, 28359 Bremen, Germany; (M.C.); (N.M.); (M.K.)
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- Bruker Daltonik GmbH, 28359 Bremen, Germany; (M.C.); (N.M.); (M.K.)
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- Bruker Daltonik GmbH, 28359 Bremen, Germany; (M.C.); (N.M.); (M.K.)
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- Institute for Hygiene and Environment, 20539 Hamburg, Germany;
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- Department of Microbiology and Hospital Hygiene, Bundeswehr Central Hospital Koblenz, 56070 Koblenz, Germany; (S.R.); (R.M.H.)
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- Department of Microbiology and Hospital Hygiene, Bundeswehr Central Hospital Koblenz, 56070 Koblenz, Germany; (S.R.); (R.M.H.)
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- Operative Unit of Microbiology, IRCCS-Azienda Ospedaliero Policlinico Sant’Orsola-Universitaria di Bologna, 40138 Bologna, Italy;
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- Risk Analysis and Genomic Epidemiology Unit, Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale Della Lombardia e dell’Emilia-Romagna, 43126 Parma, Italy; (S.P.); (L.S.)
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- Risk Analysis and Genomic Epidemiology Unit, Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale Della Lombardia e dell’Emilia-Romagna, 43126 Parma, Italy; (S.P.); (L.S.)
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- Department of Clinical Microbiology, Odense University Hospital, 5000 Odense C, Denmark; (U.S.J.); (H.M.H.)
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- Department of Clinical Microbiology, Odense University Hospital, 5000 Odense C, Denmark; (U.S.J.); (H.M.H.)
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- Department of Microbiology, Université de Caen, Normandie, CEDEX 5, 14032 Caen, France; (O.J.-L.); (S.L.H.); (M.A.)
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- Department of Microbiology, Université de Caen, Normandie, CEDEX 5, 14032 Caen, France; (O.J.-L.); (S.L.H.); (M.A.)
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- Department of Microbiology, Université de Caen, Normandie, CEDEX 5, 14032 Caen, France; (O.J.-L.); (S.L.H.); (M.A.)
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- University Medical Center Groningen, Department of Medical Microbiology and Infection Prevention, University of Groningen, 9700 AB Groningen, The Netherlands;
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- Infectious Disease Department, Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine Hamburg, 20359 Hamburg, Germany; or
- University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf (UKE), Tropical Medicine II Hamburg, 20359 Hamburg, Germany
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- Department of Microbiology and Hospital Hygiene, Bundeswehr Hospital Hamburg, 20359 Hamburg, Germany; or
- Institute for Medical Microbiology, Virology and Hygiene, University Medicine Rostock, 18057 Rostock, Germany
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- Infectious Disease Department, Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine Hamburg, 20359 Hamburg, Germany; or
- German Centre for Infection Research (DZIF), Hamburg-Lübeck-Borstel-Riems, 38124 Braunschweig, Germany
- Correspondence:
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Andrews JR, Vaidya K, Saha S, Yousafzai MT, Hemlock C, Longley A, Aiemjoy K, Yu AT, Bogoch II, Tamrakar D, Date K, Saha SK, Garrett DO, Luby SP, Qamar F. Healthcare Utilization Patterns for Acute Febrile Illness in Bangladesh, Nepal, and Pakistan: Results from the Surveillance for Enteric Fever in Asia Project. Clin Infect Dis 2020; 71:S248-S256. [PMID: 33258937 PMCID: PMC7705868 DOI: 10.1093/cid/ciaa1321] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND Characterizing healthcare-seeking patterns for acute febrile illness is critical for generating population-based enteric fever incidence estimates from facility-based surveillance data. METHODS We used a hybrid model in the Surveillance for Enteric Fever in Asia Project (SEAP) to assess incidence of enteric fever at 6 study hospitals in 3 countries. We recruited individuals presenting to the hospitals and obtained blood cultures to evaluate for enteric fever. For this analysis, we undertook cluster random household surveys in Dhaka, Bangladesh (2 sites); Karachi, Pakistan; Kathmandu, Nepal; and Kavrepalanchok, Nepal between January 2017 and February 2019, to ascertain care-seeking behavior for individuals with 1) fever for ≥3 consecutive days within the past 8 weeks; or 2) fever resulting in hospitalization within the past year. We also collected data about disease severity and household demographics and assets. We used mixed-effect multivariable logistic regression models to identify determinants of healthcare seeking at study hospitals and determinants of culture-confirmed enteric fever. RESULTS We enrolled 31 841 households (53 926 children) in Bangladesh, 25 510 households (84 196 children and adults) in Nepal, and 21 310 households (108 031 children and adults) in Pakistan. Children <5 years were most likely to be taken to the study hospitals for febrile illness at all sites. Household wealth was positively correlated with healthcare seeking in 4 of 5 study sites, and at least one marker of disease severity was positively associated with healthcare seeking in 3 of 5 catchment areas. Wealth and disease severity were variably predictive of blood culture-confirmed enteric fever. CONCLUSIONS Age, household wealth, and disease severity are important determinants of healthcare seeking for acute febrile illness and enteric fever risk in these communities, and should be incorporated into estimation models for enteric fever incidence.
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- Jason R Andrews
- Division of Infectious Diseases and Geographic Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California, USA
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- Dhulikhel Hospital, Kathmandu University Hospital, Dhulikhel, Nepal
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- Child Health Research Foundation, Department of Microbiology, Dhaka Shishu Hospital, Dhaka, Bangladesh
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- Applied Epidemiology, Sabin Vaccine Institute, Washington, DC, USA
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- National Foundation for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
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- Division of Infectious Diseases and Geographic Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California, USA
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- Division of Infectious Diseases and Geographic Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California, USA
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- Department of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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- Dhulikhel Hospital, Kathmandu University Hospital, Dhulikhel, Nepal
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- Global Immunization Division, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
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- Child Health Research Foundation, Department of Microbiology, Dhaka Shishu Hospital, Dhaka, Bangladesh
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- Applied Epidemiology, Sabin Vaccine Institute, Washington, DC, USA
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- Division of Infectious Diseases and Geographic Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California, USA
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- Department of Pediatrics and Child Health, Aga Khan University Karachi, Pakistan
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Yu AT, Shakya R, Adhikari B, Tamrakar D, Vaidya K, Maples S, Date K, Bogoch II, Bern C, Qamar F, Yousafzai MT, Garrett DO, Longley AT, Hemlock C, Luby S, Aiemjoy K, Andrews JR. A Cluster-based, Spatial-sampling Method for Assessing Household Healthcare Utilization Patterns in Resource-limited Settings. Clin Infect Dis 2020; 71:S239-S247. [PMID: 33258933 PMCID: PMC7705878 DOI: 10.1093/cid/ciaa1310] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/01/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND Implementation of population-based surveys is resource intensive and logistically demanding, especially in areas with rapidly changing demographics and incomplete or no enumeration of the underlying population and their residences. To remove the need for pre-enumeration and to simplify field logistics for the population healthcare utilization survey used for the Surveillance for Enteric Fever in Asia Project in Nepal, we incorporated a geographic information system-based geosurvey and field mapping system into a single-stage cluster sampling approach. METHODS A survey was administered to ascertain healthcare-seeking behavior in individuals with recent suspected enteric fever. Catchment areas were based on residential addresses of enteric fever patients using study facilities; clusters were randomly selected from digitally created grids using available satellite images and all households within clusters were offered enrollment. A tablet-compatible geosurvey and mapping system that allowed for data-syncing and use in areas without cellular data was created using the ArcGIS suite of software. RESULTS Between January 2017 and November 2018, we surveyed 25 521 households in Nepal (16 769 in urban Kathmandu and 8752 in periurban Kavrepalanchok), representing 84 202 individuals. Overall, the survey participation rate was 90.9%, with geographic heterogeneity in participation rates within each catchment area. Areas with higher average household wealth had lower participation rates. CONCLUSION A geographic information system-based geosurvey and field mapping system allowed creation of a virtual household map at the same time as survey administration, enabling a single-stage cluster sampling method to assess healthcare utilization in Nepal for the Surveillance for Enteric Fever in Asia Project . This system removed the need for pre-enumeration of households in sampling areas, simplified logistics and could be replicated in future community surveys.
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- Alexander T Yu
- Division of Infectious Diseases and Geographic Medicine, School of Medicine, Stanford University, Stanford, California, USA
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- Dhulikhel Hospital, Kathmandu University Hospital, Dhulikhel, Nepal
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- Dhulikhel Hospital, Kathmandu University Hospital, Dhulikhel, Nepal
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- Dhulikhel Hospital, Kathmandu University Hospital, Dhulikhel, Nepal
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- Dhulikhel Hospital, Kathmandu University Hospital, Dhulikhel, Nepal
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- Stanford Geospatial Center, Stanford University, Stanford, California, USA
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- Global Immunization Division, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
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- Department of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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- Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of California, San Francisco, California, USA
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- Applied Epidemiology, Sabin Vaccine Institute, Washington, DC, USA
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- Global Immunization Division, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
- National Foundation for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
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- Applied Epidemiology, Sabin Vaccine Institute, Washington, DC, USA
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- Division of Infectious Diseases and Geographic Medicine, School of Medicine, Stanford University, Stanford, California, USA
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- Division of Infectious Diseases and Geographic Medicine, School of Medicine, Stanford University, Stanford, California, USA
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- Division of Infectious Diseases and Geographic Medicine, School of Medicine, Stanford University, Stanford, California, USA
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Longley AT, Hemlock C, Date K, Luby SP, Andrews JR, Saha SK, Bogoch II, Yousafzai MT, Garrett DO, Qamar FN. Illness Severity and Outcomes Among Enteric Fever Cases From Bangladesh, Nepal, and Pakistan: Data From the Surveillance for Enteric Fever in Asia Project, 2016-2019. Clin Infect Dis 2020; 71:S222-S231. [PMID: 33258929 PMCID: PMC7705875 DOI: 10.1093/cid/ciaa1320] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/25/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND Enteric fever can lead to prolonged hospital stays, clinical complications, and death. The Surveillance for Enteric Fever in Asia Project (SEAP), a prospective surveillance study, characterized the burden of enteric fever, including illness severity, in selected settings in Bangladesh, Nepal, and Pakistan. We assessed disease severity, including hospitalization, clinical complications, and death among SEAP participants. METHODS We analyzed clinical and laboratory data from blood culture-confirmed enteric fever cases enrolled in SEAP hospitals and associated network laboratories from September 2016 to September 2019. We used hospitalization and duration of hospital stay as proxies for severity. We conducted a follow-up interview 6 weeks after enrollment to ascertain final outcomes. RESULTS Of the 8705 blood culture-confirmed enteric fever cases enrolled, we identified 6 deaths (case-fatality ratio, .07%; 95% CI, .01-.13%), 2 from Nepal, 4 from Pakistan, and none from Bangladesh. Overall, 1.7% (90/5205) of patients recruited from SEAP hospitals experienced a clinical complication (Bangladesh, 0.6% [18/3032]; Nepal, 2.3% [12/531]; Pakistan, 3.7% [60/1642]). The most identified complications were hepatitis (n = 36), septic shock (n = 22), and pulmonary complications/pneumonia (n = 13). Across countries, 32% (2804/8669) of patients with hospitalization data available were hospitalized (Bangladesh, 27% [1295/4868]; Nepal, 29% [455/1595]; Pakistan, 48% [1054/2206]), with a median hospital stay of 5 days (IQR, 3-7). CONCLUSIONS While defined clinical complications and deaths were uncommon at the SEAP sites, the high proportion of hospitalizations and prolonged hospital stays highlight illness severity and the need for enteric fever control measures, including the use of typhoid conjugate vaccines.
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- Ashley T Longley
- National Foundation for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
- Global Immunization Division, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
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- Applied Epidemiology, Sabin Vaccine Institute, Washington, DC, USA
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- Global Immunization Division, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
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- Infectious Diseases and Geographic Medicine, Stanford University, Stanford, California, USA
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- Infectious Diseases and Geographic Medicine, Stanford University, Stanford, California, USA
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- Child Health Research Foundation, Department of Microbiology, Dhaka Shishu Hospital, Dhaka, Bangladesh
- Bangladesh Institute of Child Health, Dhaka Shishu Hospital, Sher-E-Bangla Nagar, Dhaka, Bangladesh
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- Department of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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- Department of Pediatrics and Child Health, Aga Khan University, Karachi, Pakistan
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- Applied Epidemiology, Sabin Vaccine Institute, Washington, DC, USA
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- Department of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Yousafzai MT, Irfan S, Thobani RS, Kazi AM, Hotwani A, Memon AM, Iqbal K, Qazi SH, Saddal NS, Rahman N, Dehraj IF, Hunzai MJ, Mehmood J, Garrett DO, Saha SK, Andrews JR, Luby SP, Qamar FN. Burden of Culture Confirmed Enteric Fever Cases in Karachi, Pakistan: Surveillance For Enteric Fever in Asia Project (SEAP), 2016-2019. Clin Infect Dis 2020; 71:S214-S221. [PMID: 33258931 PMCID: PMC7705869 DOI: 10.1093/cid/ciaa1308] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND The Surveillance for Enteric Fever in Asia Project (SEAP) is a multicenter, multicountry study conducted in Pakistan, Nepal, and Bangladesh. The objectives of the study were to characterize disease incidence among patients with enteric fever. We report the burden of enteric fever at selected sites of Karachi, Pakistan. METHODS During September 2016 to September 2019, prospective surveillance was conducted at inpatient, outpatient, surgical departments, and laboratory networks of Aga Khan University Hospital, Kharadar General Hospital, and surgery units of National Institute of Child Health and Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre. Socio-demographic, clinical, and laboratory data were obtained from all suspected or confirmed enteric fever cases. RESULTS Overall, 22% (2230/10 094) of patients enrolled were culture-positive for enteric fever. 94% (2093/2230) of isolates were Salmonella Typhi and 6% (137/2230) were S. Paratyphi. 15% of isolates multi-drug resistant (MDR) to first-line antibiotics and 60% were extensively drug-resistant (XDR), resistant to first-line antibiotics, fluoroquinolones and third generation cephalosporin. CONCLUSION Enteric fever cases have increased during the last 3 years with large proportion of drug resistant S. Typhi cases. However, the burden of paratyphoid is still relatively low. Strengthening the existing surveillance system for enteric fever and antimicrobial resistance at the national level is recommended in Pakistan to inform prevention measures. While typhoid vaccination can significantly decrease the burden of typhoid and may also impact antimicrobial resistance, water, sanitation, and hygiene improvement is highly recommended to prevent the spread of enteric fever.
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- Mohammad T Yousafzai
- Department of Pediatrics and Child Health, Aga Khan University, Karachi, Pakistan
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- Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Aga Khan University, Karachi, Pakistan
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- Department of Pediatrics and Child Health, Aga Khan University, Karachi, Pakistan
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- Department of Pediatrics and Child Health, Aga Khan University, Karachi, Pakistan
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- Department of Pediatrics and Child Health, Aga Khan University, Karachi, Pakistan
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- Clinical Laboratory, Kharadar General Hospital, Karachi, Pakistan
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- Clinical Laboratory, Kharadar General Hospital, Karachi, Pakistan
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- Department of Surgery, Aga Khan University, Karachi, Pakistan
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- Department of Pediatrics and Child Health, Aga Khan University, Karachi, Pakistan
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- Department of Pediatrics and Child Health, Aga Khan University, Karachi, Pakistan
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- Department of Pediatrics and Child Health, Aga Khan University, Karachi, Pakistan
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- Department of Pediatrics and Child Health, Aga Khan University, Karachi, Pakistan
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- Applied Epidemiology, Sabin Vaccine Institute, Washington, DC, USA
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- Child Health Research Foundation, Department of Microbiology, Dhaka Shishu (Children) Hospital, Bangladesh
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- Infectious Diseases and Geographic Medicine, Stanford University, Stanford, California, USA
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- Infectious Diseases and Geographic Medicine, Stanford University, Stanford, California, USA
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- Department of Pediatrics and Child Health, Aga Khan University, Karachi, Pakistan
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Carter AS, Luby SP, Garrett DO. Introducing Typhoid Conjugate Vaccine in South Asia: Lessons From the Surveillance for Enteric Fever in Asia Project. Clin Infect Dis 2020; 71:S191-S195. [PMID: 33258930 PMCID: PMC7705880 DOI: 10.1093/cid/ciaa1296] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/17/2022] Open
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Enteric fever remains a public health concern in communities lacking sanitation infrastructure to separate sewage from drinking water. To bridge the gap until large-scale civil-engineering projects are implemented in high-burden countries, typhoid conjugate vaccine presents a promising disease-prevention technology. A new typhoid conjugate vaccine was prequalified by the World Health Organization in 2017 and is beginning to be introduced in countries around the world. To help inform vaccine introduction, the Surveillance for Enteric Fever in Asia Project (SEAP) conducts prospective enteric fever surveillance in Bangladesh, Nepal, and Pakistan. This supplement presents findings from Phase II of the study (2016-2019) on burden of disease, clinical presentation, the growing spread of drug-resistant strains, and policy and economic ramifications. These findings are delivered to support policymakers in their deliberations on strategies to introduce typhoid conjugate vaccine as a preventive tool against enteric fever.
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- Alice S Carter
- Applied Epidemiology, Sabin Vaccine Institute, Washington, DC, USA
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- Division of Infectious Diseases and Geographic Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California, USA
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- Applied Epidemiology, Sabin Vaccine Institute, Washington, DC, USA
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Ryckman T, Luby S, Owens DK, Bendavid E, Goldhaber-Fiebert JD. Methods for Model Calibration under High Uncertainty: Modeling Cholera in Bangladesh. Med Decis Making 2020; 40:693-709. [PMID: 32639859 DOI: 10.1177/0272989x20938683] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/04/2023]
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Background. Published data on a disease do not always correspond directly to the parameters needed to simulate natural history. Several calibration methods have been applied to computer-based disease models to extract needed parameters that make a model's output consistent with available data. Objective. To assess 3 calibration methods and evaluate their performance in a real-world application. Methods. We calibrated a model of cholera natural history in Bangladesh, where a lack of active surveillance biases available data. We built a cohort state-transition cholera natural history model that includes case hospitalization to reflect the passive surveillance data-generating process. We applied 3 calibration techniques: incremental mixture importance sampling, sampling importance resampling, and random search with rejection sampling. We adapted these techniques to the context of wide prior uncertainty and many degrees of freedom. We evaluated the resulting posterior parameter distributions using a range of metrics and compared predicted cholera burden estimates. Results. All 3 calibration techniques produced posterior distributions with a higher likelihood and better fit to calibration targets as compared with prior distributions. Incremental mixture importance sampling resulted in the highest likelihood and largest number of unique parameter sets to better inform joint parameter uncertainty. Compared with naïve uncalibrated parameter sets, calibrated models of cholera in Bangladesh project substantially more cases, many of which are not detected by passive surveillance, and fewer deaths. Limitations. Calibration cannot completely overcome poor data quality, which can leave some parameters less well informed than others. Calibration techniques may perform differently under different circumstances. Conclusions. Incremental mixture importance sampling, when adapted to the context of high uncertainty, performs well. By accounting for biases in data, calibration can improve model projections of disease burden.
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- Theresa Ryckman
- Center for Health Policy and Center for Primary Care & Outcomes Research, Department of Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, USA
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- Infectious Diseases and Geographic Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA
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- VA Palo Alto Healthcare System, Palo Alto, CA, USA.,Center for Health Policy and Center for Primary Care & Outcomes Research, Department of Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, USA
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- Division of Primary Care and Population Health, Department of Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, USA.,Center for Health Policy and Center for Primary Care & Outcomes Research, Department of Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, USA
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- Center for Health Policy and Center for Primary Care & Outcomes Research, Department of Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, USA
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Saha S, Islam MS, Sajib MSI, Saha S, Uddin MJ, Hooda Y, Hasan M, Amin MR, Hanif M, Shahidullah M, Islam M, Luby SP, Andrews JR, Saha SK. Epidemiology of Typhoid and Paratyphoid: Implications for Vaccine Policy. Clin Infect Dis 2020; 68:S117-S123. [PMID: 30845325 PMCID: PMC6405278 DOI: 10.1093/cid/ciy1124] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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Background Typhoid and paratyphoid remain the most common bloodstream infections in many resource-poor settings. The World Health Organization recommends typhoid conjugate vaccines for country-specific introduction, but questions regarding typhoid and paratyphoid epidemiology persist, especially regarding their severity in young children. Methods We conducted enteric fever surveillance in Bangladesh from 2004 through 2016 in the inpatient departments of 2 pediatric hospitals and the outpatient departments of 1 pediatric hospital and 1 private consultation clinic. Blood cultures were conducted at the discretion of the treating physicians; cases of culture-confirmed typhoid/paratyphoid were included. Hospitalizations and durations of hospitalizations were used as proxies for severity in children <12 years old. Results We identified 7072 typhoid and 1810 paratyphoid culture-confirmed cases. There was no increasing trend in the proportion of paratyphoid over the 13 years. The median age in the typhoid cases was 60 months, and 15% of the cases occurred in children <24 months old. The median age of the paratyphoid cases was significantly higher, at 90 months (P < .001); 9.4% were in children <24 months old. The proportion of children (<12 years old) hospitalized with typhoid and paratyphoid (32% and 21%, respectively) decreased with age; there was no significant difference in durations of hospitalizations between age groups. However, children with typhoid were hospitalized for longer than those with paratyphoid. Conclusions Typhoid and paratyphoid fever are common in Dhaka, including among children under 2 years old, who have equivalent disease severity as older children. Early immunization with typhoid conjugate vaccines could avert substantial morbidity, but broader efforts are required to reduce the paratyphoid burden.
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- Senjuti Saha
- Child Health Research Foundation, Department of Microbiology, Dhaka Shishu Hospital, Dhaka, Bangladesh.,Department of Infectious Diseases, Stanford University School of Medicine, California
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- Child Health Research Foundation, Department of Microbiology, Dhaka Shishu Hospital, Dhaka, Bangladesh
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- Child Health Research Foundation, Department of Microbiology, Dhaka Shishu Hospital, Dhaka, Bangladesh
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- Child Health Research Foundation, Department of Microbiology, Dhaka Shishu Hospital, Dhaka, Bangladesh
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- Department of Biochemistry, University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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- Child Health Research Foundation, Department of Microbiology, Dhaka Shishu Hospital, Dhaka, Bangladesh
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- Child Health Research Foundation, Department of Microbiology, Dhaka Shishu Hospital, Dhaka, Bangladesh.,Bangladesh Institute of Child Health, Dhaka Shishu (Children) Hospital, Dhaka, Bangladesh
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- Child Health Research Foundation, Department of Microbiology, Dhaka Shishu Hospital, Dhaka, Bangladesh.,Bangladesh Institute of Child Health, Dhaka Shishu (Children) Hospital, Dhaka, Bangladesh.,Popular Diagnostic Center, Dhaka, Bangladesh
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- Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University, Dhaka, Bangladesh.,Shishu Shasthya Foundation Hospital, Dhaka, Bangladesh
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- Child Health Research Foundation, Department of Microbiology, Dhaka Shishu Hospital, Dhaka, Bangladesh
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- Department of Infectious Diseases, Stanford University School of Medicine, California
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- Department of Infectious Diseases, Stanford University School of Medicine, California
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- Child Health Research Foundation, Department of Microbiology, Dhaka Shishu Hospital, Dhaka, Bangladesh.,Bangladesh Institute of Child Health, Dhaka Shishu (Children) Hospital, Dhaka, Bangladesh.,Popular Diagnostic Center, Dhaka, Bangladesh
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Krystosik A, Njoroge G, Odhiambo L, Forsyth JE, Mutuku F, LaBeaud AD. Solid Wastes Provide Breeding Sites, Burrows, and Food for Biological Disease Vectors, and Urban Zoonotic Reservoirs: A Call to Action for Solutions-Based Research. Front Public Health 2020; 7:405. [PMID: 32010659 PMCID: PMC6979070 DOI: 10.3389/fpubh.2019.00405] [Citation(s) in RCA: 61] [Impact Index Per Article: 15.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/17/2019] [Accepted: 12/19/2019] [Indexed: 12/22/2022] Open
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Background: Infectious disease epidemiology and planetary health literature often cite solid waste and plastic pollution as risk factors for vector-borne diseases and urban zoonoses; however, no rigorous reviews of the risks to human health have been published since 1994. This paper aims to identify research gaps and outline potential solutions to interrupt the vicious cycle of solid wastes; disease vectors and reservoirs; infection and disease; and poverty. Methods: We searched peer-reviewed publications from PubMed, Google Scholar, and Stanford Searchworks, and references from relevant articles using the search terms (“disease” OR “epidemiology”) AND (“plastic pollution,” “garbage,” and “trash,” “rubbish,” “refuse,” OR “solid waste”). Abstracts and reports from meetings were included only when they related directly to previously published work. Only articles published in English, Spanish, or Portuguese through 2018 were included, with a focus on post-1994, after the last comprehensive review was published. Cancer, diabetes, and food chain-specific articles were outside the scope and excluded. After completing the literature review, we further limited the literature to “urban zoonotic and biological vector-borne diseases” or to “zoonotic and biological vector-borne diseases of the urban environment.” Results: Urban biological vector-borne diseases, especially Aedes-borne diseases, are associated with solid waste accumulation but vector preferences vary over season and region. Urban zoonosis, especially rodent and canine disease reservoirs, are associated with solid waste in urban settings, especially when garbage accumulates over time, creating burrowing sites and food for reservoirs. Although evidence suggests the link between plastic pollution/solid waste and human disease, measurements are not standardized, confounders are not rigorously controlled, and the quality of evidence varies. Here we propose a framework for solutions-based research in three areas: innovation, education, and policy. Conclusions: Disease epidemics are increasing in scope and scale with urban populations growing, climate change providing newly suitable vector climates, and immunologically naïve populations becoming newly exposed. Sustainable solid waste management is crucial to prevention, specifically in urban environments that favor urban vectors such as Aedes species. We propose that next steps should include more robust epidemiological measurements and propose a framework for solutions-based research.
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- Amy Krystosik
- Division of Infectious Disease, Department of Pediatrics, School of Medicine, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, United States
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- School of Public Health, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, United States
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- College of Public Health, Kent State University, Kent, OH, United States
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- School of Earth Sciences, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, United States
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- Environment and Health Sciences Department, Technical University of Mombasa, Mombasa, Kenya
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- Division of Infectious Disease, Department of Pediatrics, School of Medicine, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, United States
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Unbiased Metagenomic Sequencing for Pediatric Meningitis in Bangladesh Reveals Neuroinvasive Chikungunya Virus Outbreak and Other Unrealized Pathogens. mBio 2019; 10:mBio.02877-19. [PMID: 31848287 PMCID: PMC6918088 DOI: 10.1128/mbio.02877-19] [Citation(s) in RCA: 59] [Impact Index Per Article: 11.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/12/2022] Open
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Globally, there are an estimated 10.6 million cases of meningitis and 288,000 deaths every year, with the vast majority occurring in low- and middle-income countries. In addition, many survivors suffer from long-term neurological sequelae. Most laboratories assay only for common bacterial etiologies using culture and directed PCR, and the majority of meningitis cases lack microbiological diagnoses, impeding institution of evidence-based treatment and prevention strategies. We report here the results of a validation and application study of using unbiased metagenomic sequencing to determine etiologies of idiopathic (of unknown cause) cases. This included CSF from patients with known neurologic infections, with idiopathic meningitis, and without infection admitted in the largest children’s hospital of Bangladesh and environmental samples. Using mNGS and machine learning, we identified and confirmed an etiology (viral or bacterial) in 40% of idiopathic cases. We detected three instances of Chikungunya virus (CHIKV) that were >99% identical to each other and to a strain previously recognized to cause systemic illness only in 2017. CHIKV qPCR of all remaining stored 472 CSF samples from children who presented with idiopathic meningitis in 2017 at the same hospital uncovered an unrecognized CHIKV meningitis outbreak. CSF mNGS can complement conventional diagnostic methods to identify etiologies of meningitis, and the improved patient- and population-level data can inform better policy decisions. The burden of meningitis in low-and-middle-income countries remains significant, but the infectious causes remain largely unknown, impeding institution of evidence-based treatment and prevention decisions. We conducted a validation and application study of unbiased metagenomic next-generation sequencing (mNGS) to elucidate etiologies of meningitis in Bangladesh. This RNA mNGS study was performed on cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) specimens from patients admitted in the largest pediatric hospital, a World Health Organization sentinel site, with known neurologic infections (n = 36), with idiopathic meningitis (n = 25), and with no infection (n = 30), and six environmental samples, collected between 2012 and 2018. We used the IDseq bioinformatics pipeline and machine learning to identify potentially pathogenic microbes, which we then confirmed orthogonally and followed up through phone/home visits. In samples with known etiology and without infections, there was 83% concordance between mNGS and conventional testing. In idiopathic cases, mNGS identified a potential bacterial or viral etiology in 40%. There were three instances of neuroinvasive Chikungunya virus (CHIKV), whose genomes were >99% identical to each other and to a Bangladeshi strain only previously recognized to cause febrile illness in 2017. CHIKV-specific qPCR of all remaining stored CSF samples from children who presented with idiopathic meningitis in 2017 (n = 472) revealed 17 additional CHIKV meningitis cases, exposing an unrecognized meningitis outbreak. Orthogonal molecular confirmation, case-based clinical data, and patient follow-up substantiated the findings. Case-control CSF mNGS surveys can complement conventional diagnostic methods to identify etiologies of meningitis, conduct surveillance, and predict outbreaks. The improved patient- and population-level data can inform evidence-based policy decisions.
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Carey ME, Steele AD. The Severe Typhoid Fever in Africa Program Highlights the Need for Broad Deployment of Typhoid Conjugate Vaccines. Clin Infect Dis 2019; 69:S413-S416. [PMID: 31665775 PMCID: PMC6821154 DOI: 10.1093/cid/ciz637] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/27/2022] Open
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The Typhoid Surveillance in Africa Program (TSAP) and the Severe Typhoid Fever in Africa (SETA) program have refined our understanding of age and geographic distribution of typhoid fever and other invasive salmonelloses in Africa and will help inform future typhoid control strategies, namely, introduction of typhoid conjugate vaccines.
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- Megan E Carey
- Enteric and Diarrheal Diseases, Global Health, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Seattle, Washington
- Department of Medicine, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom
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- Enteric and Diarrheal Diseases, Global Health, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Seattle, Washington
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Park SE, Toy T, Cruz Espinoza LM, Panzner U, Mogeni OD, Im J, Poudyal N, Pak GD, Seo H, Chon Y, Schütt-Gerowitt H, Mogasale V, Ramani E, Dey A, Park JY, Kim JH, Seo HJ, Jeon HJ, Haselbeck A, Conway Roy K, MacWright W, Adu-Sarkodie Y, Owusu-Dabo E, Osei I, Owusu M, Rakotozandrindrainy R, Soura AB, Kabore LP, Teferi M, Okeke IN, Kehinde A, Popoola O, Jacobs J, Lunguya Metila O, Meyer CG, Crump JA, Elias S, Maclennan CA, Parry CM, Baker S, Mintz ED, Breiman RF, Clemens JD, Marks F. The Severe Typhoid Fever in Africa Program: Study Design and Methodology to Assess Disease Severity, Host Immunity, and Carriage Associated With Invasive Salmonellosis. Clin Infect Dis 2019; 69:S422-S434. [PMID: 31665779 PMCID: PMC6821161 DOI: 10.1093/cid/ciz715] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/22/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND Invasive salmonellosis is a common community-acquired bacteremia in persons residing in sub-Saharan Africa. However, there is a paucity of data on severe typhoid fever and its associated acute and chronic host immune response and carriage. The Severe Typhoid Fever in Africa (SETA) program, a multicountry surveillance study, aimed to address these research gaps and contribute to the control and prevention of invasive salmonellosis. METHODS A prospective healthcare facility-based surveillance with active screening of enteric fever and clinically suspected severe typhoid fever with complications was performed using a standardized protocol across the study sites in Burkina Faso, the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Ethiopia, Ghana, Madagascar, and Nigeria. Defined inclusion criteria were used for screening of eligible patients for enrollment into the study. Enrolled patients with confirmed invasive salmonellosis by blood culture or patients with clinically suspected severe typhoid fever with perforation were eligible for clinical follow-up. Asymptomatic neighborhood controls and immediate household contacts of each case were enrolled as a comparison group to assess the level of Salmonella-specific antibodies and shedding patterns. Healthcare utilization surveys were performed to permit adjustment of incidence estimations. Postmortem questionnaires were conducted in medically underserved areas to assess death attributed to invasive Salmonella infections in selected sites. RESULTS Research data generated through SETA aimed to address scientific knowledge gaps concerning the severe typhoid fever and mortality, long-term host immune responses, and bacterial shedding and carriage associated with natural infection by invasive salmonellae. CONCLUSIONS SETA supports public health policy on typhoid immunization strategy in Africa.
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- Se Eun Park
- International Vaccine Institute, Seoul National University Research Park, Republic of Korea
- Oxford University Clinical Research Unit, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
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- International Vaccine Institute, Seoul National University Research Park, Republic of Korea
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- International Vaccine Institute, Seoul National University Research Park, Republic of Korea
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- International Vaccine Institute, Seoul National University Research Park, Republic of Korea
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- International Vaccine Institute, Seoul National University Research Park, Republic of Korea
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- International Vaccine Institute, Seoul National University Research Park, Republic of Korea
- Department of Microbiology and Infectious Disease, B. P. Koirala Institute of Health Sciences, Dharan, Nepal
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- International Vaccine Institute, Seoul National University Research Park, Republic of Korea
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- International Vaccine Institute, Seoul National University Research Park, Republic of Korea
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- International Vaccine Institute, Seoul National University Research Park, Republic of Korea
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- International Vaccine Institute, Seoul National University Research Park, Republic of Korea
- Institute of Medical Microbiology, University of Cologne, Germany
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- International Vaccine Institute, Seoul National University Research Park, Republic of Korea
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- International Vaccine Institute, Seoul National University Research Park, Republic of Korea
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- International Vaccine Institute, Seoul National University Research Park, Republic of Korea
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- International Vaccine Institute, Seoul National University Research Park, Republic of Korea
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- International Vaccine Institute, Seoul National University Research Park, Republic of Korea
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- International Vaccine Institute, Seoul National University Research Park, Republic of Korea
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- International Vaccine Institute, Seoul National University Research Park, Republic of Korea
- Department of Medicine, Cambridge University, United Kingdom
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- International Vaccine Institute, Seoul National University Research Park, Republic of Korea
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- School of Public Health, and, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana
- Kumasi Centre for Collaborative Research in Tropical Medicine, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana
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- International Vaccine Institute, Seoul National University Research Park, Republic of Korea
- Kumasi Centre for Collaborative Research in Tropical Medicine, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana
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- Kumasi Centre for Collaborative Research in Tropical Medicine, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana
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- Kumasi Centre for Collaborative Research in Tropical Medicine, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana
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- Institut Supérieur des Sciences de la Population, University of Ouagadougou, Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso
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- Armauer Hansen Research Institute, ALERT Campus, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
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- Department of Medical Microbiology and Parasitology, College of Medicine, University of Ibadan
- Department of Medical Microbiology and Parasitology, University College Hospital
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- Department of Community Medicine, College of Medicine, University of Ibadan
- Department of Community Medicine, University College Hospital, Ibadan, Nigeria
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- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, KU Leuven
- Department of Clinical Sciences, Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium
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- Institut National de Recherche Biomedicales, Kinshasa
- Service de Microbiologie, Cliniques Universitaires de Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo
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- Institute of Tropical Medicine, Eberhard-Karls University of Tübingen, Germany
- Duy Tan University, Da Nang, Vietnam
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- Kilimanjaro Christian Medical Centre, Moshi, Tanzania
- Division of Infectious Diseases and International Health, Duke University Medical Center
- Duke Global Health Institute, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina
- Centre for International Health, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand
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- Jenner Institute, University of Oxford, United Kingdom
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- Oxford University Clinical Research Unit, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
- Department of Medicine, Cambridge University, United Kingdom
- Centre for Tropical Medicine, Nuffield Department of Medicine, University of Oxford, United Kingdom
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- National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia
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- icddr,b, Dhaka, Bangladesh
- Fielding School of Public Health, University of California, Los Angeles
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- International Vaccine Institute, Seoul National University Research Park, Republic of Korea
- Department of Medicine, Cambridge University, United Kingdom
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Marchello CS, Dale AP, Pisharody S, Crump JA. Using hospital-based studies of community-onset bloodstream infections to make inferences about typhoid fever incidence. Trop Med Int Health 2019; 24:1369-1383. [PMID: 31633858 PMCID: PMC6916262 DOI: 10.1111/tmi.13319] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/01/2023]
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Objectives Hospital-based studies of community-onset bloodstream infections (CO-BSI) are less resource-intensive to carry out than population-based incidence studies. We examined several metrics capturing the potential role of Salmonella Typhi as a cause of CO-BSI for making inferences about incidence. Methods We systematically reviewed three databases for hospital-based studies of CO-BSI. We determined, by study, the prevalence and rank order of Salmonella among pathogenic bloodstream isolates, and the prevalence ratio of Salmonella Typhi to Escherichia coli (S:E ratio). We then describe these hospital-based study metrics in relation to population-based typhoid fever incidence data from a separate systematic review. Results Forty-four studies met the inclusion criteria, of which 23 (52.3%) isolated Salmonella Typhi at least once. Among studies isolating Salmonella Typhi, the median (interquartile range) prevalence and rank order of Salmonella Typhi compared to other pathogens isolated in BSI was 8.3% (3.2–37.9%) and 3 (1–6), respectively. The median (interquartile range) S:E ratio was 1.0 (0.4–3.0). With respect to incidence, in Pemba Island, Tanzania, prevalence, rank order, S:E ratio, and incidence was 64.8%, 1, 9.2 and 110 cases per 100 000, respectively, and in Boulkiemdé, Burkina Faso, was 13.3%, 3, 2.3 and 249 cases per 100 000. Conclusions We describe considerable variation in place and time for Salmonella Typhi prevalence, rank order, and S:E ratio among hospital-based studies of CO-BSI. Data from simultaneous typhoid prevalence and incidence studies are limited. We propose that hospital-based study metrics warrant evaluation for making inference about typhoid incidence and as covariates in typhoid incidence models.
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- Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment, Denver, CO, USA
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- Centre for International Health, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand
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Andrews JR, Vaidya K, Bern C, Tamrakar D, Wen S, Madhup S, Shrestha R, Karmacharya B, Amatya B, Koju R, Adhikari SR, Hohmann E, Ryan ET, Bogoch II. High Rates of Enteric Fever Diagnosis and Lower Burden of Culture-Confirmed Disease in Peri-urban and Rural Nepal. J Infect Dis 2019; 218:S214-S221. [PMID: 28961918 PMCID: PMC6226739 DOI: 10.1093/infdis/jix221] [Citation(s) in RCA: 34] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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Background In South Asia, data on enteric fever are sparse outside of urban areas. We characterized enteric fever diagnosis patterns and the burden of culture-confirmed cases in peri-urban and rural Nepal. Methods We used national reports to estimate enteric fever diagnosis rates over 20 years (1994-2014) and conducted a prospective study of patients presenting with a >72-hour history of fever to 4 peri-urban and rural healthcare facilities (during August 2013-June 2016). We compared clinical characteristics of patients with culture-confirmed Salmonella Typhi or Paratyphi infection to those of patients without enteric fever. We used generalized additive models with logistic link functions to evaluate associations of age and population density with culture positivity. Results National rates of enteric fever diagnosis were high, reaching 18.8 cases per 1000 during 2009-2014. We enrolled 4309 participants with acute febrile illness. Among those with a provisional clinical diagnosis, 55% (1334 of 2412) received a diagnosis of enteric fever; however, only 4.1% of these had culture-confirmed typhoidal Salmonella infection. Culture positivity was highest among young adults and was strongly associated with higher population density (P < .001). Conclusions Enteric fever diagnosis rates were very high throughout Nepal, but in rural settings, few patients had culture-confirmed disease. Expanded surveillance may inform local enteric fever treatment and prevention strategies.
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- Dhulikhel Hospital, Kathmandu University Hospital, Dhulikhel
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- Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of California, San Francisco, California
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- Dhulikhel Hospital, Kathmandu University Hospital, Dhulikhel
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- D-Lab, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge
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- Dhulikhel Hospital, Kathmandu University Hospital, Dhulikhel
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- Dhulikhel Hospital, Kathmandu University Hospital, Dhulikhel
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- Dhulikhel Hospital, Kathmandu University Hospital, Dhulikhel
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- Dhulikhel Hospital, Kathmandu University Hospital, Dhulikhel
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- Division of Infectious Diseases, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts
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- Division of Infectious Diseases, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts
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Saha S, Islam M, Saha S, Uddin MJ, Rahman H, Das RC, Hasan M, Amin MR, Hanif M, Shahidullah M, Hussain M, Saha SK. Designing Comprehensive Public Health Surveillance for Enteric Fever in Endemic Countries: Importance of Including Different Healthcare Facilities. J Infect Dis 2019; 218:S227-S231. [PMID: 30060199 PMCID: PMC6226780 DOI: 10.1093/infdis/jiy191] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/09/2017] [Indexed: 12/22/2022] Open
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Background Designing comprehensive surveillance to generate credible burden estimates of enteric fever in an endemic country can be challenging because care-seeking behavior is complex and surveillance in different healthcare facilities may lead to documentation of different epidemiological characteristics. Methods We conducted retrospective surveillance in 3 healthcare facilities to identify culture-confirmed enteric fever cases in Dhaka, Bangladesh, from January 2012 through December 2016. The study settings included (1) hospital in-patient department (IPD), (2) hospital out-patient department (OPD), and (3) private consultation center OPD. We analyzed the cases to understand their distribution, age ranges, and antibiotic susceptibility patterns across the settings. Results Of the 1837 culture-confirmed enteric fever cases, 59% (1079 of 1837) were OPD cases. Children with enteric fever hospitalized in the IPDs were younger than children seeking care at the hospital OPD (median age: 45 vs 60 months) or private OPD (median age: 45 vs 72 months). Multidrug resistance rates were slightly higher in hospital IPD cases than in private OPD cases (26% vs 24%). Conclusions In each facility, we identified different epidemiological characteristics, and lack of consideration of any of these may result in misinterpretation of disease burden, identification of different age groups, and/or antibiotic susceptibility patterns.
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- Senjuti Saha
- Child Health Research Foundation, Department of Microbiology, Dhaka Shishu Hospital, Bangladesh
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- Child Health Research Foundation, Department of Microbiology, Dhaka Shishu Hospital, Bangladesh
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- Child Health Research Foundation, Department of Microbiology, Dhaka Shishu Hospital, Bangladesh
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- Child Health Research Foundation, Department of Microbiology, Dhaka Shishu Hospital, Bangladesh
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- Child Health Research Foundation, Department of Microbiology, Dhaka Shishu Hospital, Bangladesh
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- Child Health Research Foundation, Department of Microbiology, Dhaka Shishu Hospital, Bangladesh
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- Child Health Research Foundation, Department of Microbiology, Dhaka Shishu Hospital, Bangladesh
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- Child Health Research Foundation, Department of Microbiology, Dhaka Shishu Hospital, Bangladesh.,Bangladesh Institute of Child Health, Dhaka Shishu (Children) Hospital, Bangladesh
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- Child Health Research Foundation, Department of Microbiology, Dhaka Shishu Hospital, Bangladesh.,Bangladesh Institute of Child Health, Dhaka Shishu (Children) Hospital, Bangladesh
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- Child Health Research Foundation, Department of Microbiology, Dhaka Shishu Hospital, Bangladesh.,Bangladesh Institute of Child Health, Dhaka Shishu (Children) Hospital, Bangladesh
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- Child Health Research Foundation, Department of Microbiology, Dhaka Shishu Hospital, Bangladesh.,Bangladesh Institute of Child Health, Dhaka Shishu (Children) Hospital, Bangladesh.,Popular Diagnostic Center, Bangladesh
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Barkume C, Date K, Saha SK, Qamar FN, Sur D, Andrews JR, Luby SP, Khan MI, Freeman A, Yousafzai MT, Garrett D. Phase I of the Surveillance for Enteric Fever in Asia Project (SEAP): An Overview and Lessons Learned. J Infect Dis 2019; 218:S188-S194. [PMID: 30304505 PMCID: PMC6226726 DOI: 10.1093/infdis/jiy522] [Citation(s) in RCA: 41] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/29/2018] [Accepted: 09/05/2018] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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Objective The objective of Phase I of the Surveillance for Enteric Fever in Asia Project (SEAP), a multiphase surveillance study characterizing the burden of disease in South Asia, was to inform data collection for prospective surveillance and to capture clinical aspects of disease. Methods Through a retrospective record review conducted at hospitals in Bangladesh, India, Nepal, and Pakistan, we examined laboratory and clinical records to assess the culture positivity rate for Salmonella Typhi and Salmonella Paratyphi, age and sex distribution, and antimicrobial susceptability in each country. Results Of all blood cultures performed in Bangladesh, India, Nepal, and Pakistan, 1.5%, 0.43%, 2%, and 1.49%, respectively, were positive for S. Typhi and 0.24%, 0.1%, 0.5%, and 0.67%, respectively, were positive for S. Paratyphi. A higher proportion of laboratory-confirmed infections in Bangladesh and Pakistan were aged ≤5 years, while India and Nepal had a higher proportion of participants aged 15–25 years. In all countries, the sex of the majority of participants was male. The majority of isolates in all countries were resistant to fluoroquinolones, with a high proportion also resistant to ampicillin, chloramphenicol, and trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole. Discussion Enteric fever remains endemic in South Asia. Data generated by this study can help inform strategies for implementation and evaluation of prevention and control measures.
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- Global Immunization Division, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia
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- Child Health Research Foundation, Department of Microbiology, Dhaka Shishu (Children) Hospital, Bangladesh
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- Department of Pediatrics and Child Health, Aga Khan University, Karachi, Pakistan
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- Translational Health Science and Technology Institute, Faridabad, India
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- Infectious Diseases and Geographic Medicine, Stanford University, California
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- Infectious Diseases and Geographic Medicine, Stanford University, California
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- Typhoid Programs, Sabin Vaccine Institute, Washington, D. C
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- Typhoid Programs, Sabin Vaccine Institute, Washington, D. C
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- Typhoid Programs, Sabin Vaccine Institute, Washington, D. C
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Andrews JR, Barkume C, Yu AT, Saha SK, Qamar FN, Garrett D, Luby SP. Integrating Facility-Based Surveillance With Healthcare Utilization Surveys to Estimate Enteric Fever Incidence: Methods and Challenges. J Infect Dis 2019; 218:S268-S276. [PMID: 30184162 PMCID: PMC6226762 DOI: 10.1093/infdis/jiy494] [Citation(s) in RCA: 34] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/26/2018] [Accepted: 08/16/2018] [Indexed: 11/15/2022] Open
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Cohort studies and facility-based sentinel surveillance are common approaches to characterizing infectious disease burden, but present trade-offs; cohort studies are resource-intensive and may alter disease natural history, while sentinel surveillance underestimates incidence in the population. Hybrid surveillance, whereby facility-based surveillance is paired with a community-based healthcare utilization assessment, represents an alternative approach to generating population-based disease incidence estimates with moderate resource investments. Here, we discuss this method in the context of the Surveillance for Enteric Fever in Asia Project (SEAP) study. We describe how data are collected and utilized to adjust enteric fever incidence for blood culture sensitivity, facility-based enrollment, and healthcare seeking, incorporating uncertainty in these parameters in the uncertainty around incidence estimates. We illustrate how selection of surveillance sites and their coverage may influence precision and bias, and we identify approaches in the study design and analysis to minimize and control for these biases. Rigorously designed hybrid surveillance systems can be an efficient approach to generating population-based incidence estimates for infectious diseases.
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- Jason R Andrews
- Division of Infectious Diseases and Geographic Medicine, Stanford University, California
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- Typhoid Programs, Sabin Vaccine Institute, Washington, District of Columbia
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- Division of Infectious Diseases and Geographic Medicine, Stanford University, California
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- Child Health Research Foundation, Dhaka Shishu Hospital, Dhaka, Bangladesh
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- Department of Paediatrics and Child Health, Aga Khan University, Karachi, Pakistan
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- Typhoid Programs, Sabin Vaccine Institute, Washington, District of Columbia
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- Division of Infectious Diseases and Geographic Medicine, Stanford University, California
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Saha S, Uddin MJ, Islam M, Das RC, Garrett D, Saha SK. Enteric Fever Cases in the Two Largest Pediatric Hospitals of Bangladesh: 2013-2014. J Infect Dis 2019; 218:S195-S200. [PMID: 30277511 PMCID: PMC6226791 DOI: 10.1093/infdis/jiy521] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/02/2022] Open
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Background Enteric fever predominantly affects children in low- and middle-income countries. This study examines the burden of enteric fever at the 2 pediatric hospitals in Dhaka, Bangladesh and assesses their capacity for inclusion in a prospective cohort study to support enteric fever prevention and control. Methods A descriptive study of enteric fever was conducted among children admitted in 2013–2014 to inpatient departments of Dhaka Shishu and Shishu Shashthya Foundation Hospitals, sentinel hospitals of the World Health Organization-supported Invasive Bacterial Vaccine Preventable Disease surveillance platform. Results Of 15917 children with blood specimens received by laboratories, 2.8% (443 of 15917) were culture positive for significant bacterial growth. Sixty-three percent (279 of 443) of these isolates were confirmed as the cases of enteric fever (241 Salmonella Typhi and 38 Salmonella Paratyphi A). In addition, 1591 children had suspected enteric fever. Overall, 3.6% (1870 of 51923) were laboratory confirmed or suspected enteric fever cases (55% male, median age 2 years, 86% from Dhaka district, median hospital stay 5 days). Conclusions The burden of enteric fever among inpatients at 2 pediatric hospitals in Dhaka, Bangladesh is substantial. Therefore, inclusion of these hospitals in a prospective cohort study will be useful for the generation of credible disease burden estimates of enteric fever in Bangladesh.
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- Shampa Saha
- Child Health Research Foundation, Department of Microbiology, Dhaka Shishu (Children) Hospital, Bangladesh
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- Child Health Research Foundation, Department of Microbiology, Dhaka Shishu (Children) Hospital, Bangladesh
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- Child Health Research Foundation, Department of Microbiology, Dhaka Shishu (Children) Hospital, Bangladesh
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- Child Health Research Foundation, Department of Microbiology, Dhaka Shishu (Children) Hospital, Bangladesh
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- Child Health Research Foundation, Department of Microbiology, Dhaka Shishu (Children) Hospital, Bangladesh.,Bangladesh Institute of Child Health, Dhaka Shishu (Children) Hospital, Bangladesh
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Lo NC, Gupta R, Stanaway JD, Garrett DO, Bogoch II, Luby SP, Andrews JR. Comparison of Strategies and Incidence Thresholds for Vi Conjugate Vaccines Against Typhoid Fever: A Cost-effectiveness Modeling Study. J Infect Dis 2019; 218:S232-S242. [PMID: 29444257 PMCID: PMC6226717 DOI: 10.1093/infdis/jix598] [Citation(s) in RCA: 33] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/07/2023] Open
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Background Typhoid fever remains a major public health problem globally. While new Vi conjugate vaccines hold promise for averting disease, the optimal programmatic delivery remains unclear. We aimed to identify the strategies and associated epidemiologic conditions under which Vi conjugate vaccines would be cost-effective. Methods We developed a dynamic, age-structured transmission and cost-effectiveness model that simulated multiple vaccination strategies with a typhoid Vi conjugate vaccine from a societal perspective. We simulated 10-year vaccination programs with (1) routine immunization of infants (aged <1 year) through the Expanded Program on Immunization (EPI) and (2) routine immunization of infants through the EPI plus a 1-time catch-up campaign in school-aged children (aged 5–14 years). In the base case analysis, we assumed a 0.5% case-fatality rate for all cases of clinically symptomatic typhoid fever and defined strategies as highly cost-effective by using the definition of a low-income country (defined as a country with a gross domestic product of $1045 per capita). We defined incidence as the true number of clinically symptomatic people in the population per year. Results Vi conjugate typhoid vaccines were highly cost-effective when administered by routine immunization activities through the EPI in settings with an annual incidence of >50 cases/100000 (95% uncertainty interval, 40–75 cases) and when administered through the EPI plus a catch-up campaign in settings with an annual incidence of >130 cases/100000 (95% uncertainty interval, 50–395 cases). The incidence threshold was sensitive to the typhoid-related case-fatality rate, carrier contribution to transmission, vaccine characteristics, and country-specific economic threshold for cost-effectiveness. Conclusions Typhoid Vi conjugate vaccines would be highly cost-effective in low-income countries in settings of moderate typhoid incidence (50 cases/100000 annually). These results were sensitive to case-fatality rates, underscoring the need to consider factors contributing to typhoid mortality (eg, healthcare access and antimicrobial resistance) in the global vaccination strategy.
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- Nathan C Lo
- Division of Infectious Diseases and Geographic Medicine, California.,Division of Epidemiology, Stanford University School of Medicine, California
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- Division of Infectious Diseases and Geographic Medicine, California
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- Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, University of Washington, Seattle
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- Department of Medicine, University of Toronto, Washington, D. C.,Division of Internal Medicine, Toronto General Hospital, University Health Network, Toronto, Canada.,Division of Infectious Diseases, Toronto General Hospital, University Health Network, Toronto, Canada
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- Division of Infectious Diseases and Geographic Medicine, California
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- Division of Infectious Diseases and Geographic Medicine, California
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Yu AT, Amin N, Rahman MW, Gurley ES, Rahman KM, Luby SP. Case-Fatality Ratio of Blood Culture-Confirmed Typhoid Fever in Dhaka, Bangladesh. J Infect Dis 2019; 218:S222-S226. [PMID: 30304448 PMCID: PMC6226771 DOI: 10.1093/infdis/jiy543] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/27/2018] [Accepted: 09/10/2018] [Indexed: 02/03/2023] Open
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With impending rollout of new conjugate typhoid vaccines, better estimates of typhoid case-fatality ratio are needed for countries to set priorities for public health programs. We enrolled 1425 patients of all ages with blood culture-confirmed Salmonella Typhi from laboratory networks serving inpatients and outpatients in Dhaka, Bangladesh. Participants were asked about symptoms and complications including death experienced over a median 3-month period following blood culture diagnosis. Four fatal cases were identified (case-fatality ratio of 0.3% [95% confidence interval, .05%-.55%]). Applying this case-fatality ratio to global typhoid burden estimates would reduce deaths by 70%.
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- International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh, Dhaka
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- International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh, Dhaka.,Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland
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- Public Health and Tropical Medicine, College of Public Health, Medical and Veterinary Sciences, James Cook University, Townsville, Queensland, Australia
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Sur D, Barkume C, Mukhopadhyay B, Date K, Ganguly NK, Garrett D. A Retrospective Review of Hospital-Based Data on Enteric Fever in India, 2014-2015. J Infect Dis 2019; 218:S206-S213. [PMID: 30307566 PMCID: PMC6226629 DOI: 10.1093/infdis/jiy502] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/30/2018] [Accepted: 08/21/2018] [Indexed: 01/17/2023] Open
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Background Enteric fever remains a threat to many countries with minimal access to clean water and poor sanitation infrastructure. As part of a multisite surveillance study, we conducted a retrospective review of records in 5 hospitals across India to gather evidence on the burden of enteric fever. Methods We examined hospital records (laboratory and surgical registers) from 5 hospitals across India for laboratory-confirmed Salmonella Typhi or Salmonella Paratyphi cases and intestinal perforations from 2014–2015. Clinical data were obtained where available. For laboratory-confirmed infections, we compared differences in disease burden, age, sex, clinical presentation, and antimicrobial resistance. Results Of 267536 blood cultures, 1418 (0.53%) were positive for S. Typhi or S. Paratyphi. Clinical data were available for 429 cases (72%); a higher proportion of participants with S. Typhi infection were hospitalized, compared with those with S. Paratyphi infection (44% vs 35%). We observed resistance to quinolones among 82% of isolates, with cases of cephalosporin resistance (1%) and macrolide resistance (9%) detected. Of 94 participants with intestinal perforations, 16 (17%) had a provisional, final, or laboratory-confirmed diagnosis of enteric fever. Discussion Data show a moderate burden of enteric fever in India. Enteric fever data should be systematically collected to facilitate evidence-based decision-making by countries for typhoid conjugate vaccines.
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- Dipika Sur
- Translational Health Science and Technology Institute, Faridabad, India
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- Global Immunization Division, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia
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Rojak S, Wiemer DF, Wille A, Loderstädt U, Wassill L, Hinz R, Hagen RM, Frickmann H. Loop-mediated isothermal amplification for paratyphoid fever - a proof-of-principle analysis. Lett Appl Microbiol 2019; 68:509-513. [PMID: 30761564 DOI: 10.1111/lam.13130] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/24/2018] [Revised: 02/08/2019] [Accepted: 02/11/2019] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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In-house loop-mediated isothermal amplification (LAMP) procedures for the detection of paratyphoid fever-associated bacteria on serovar level were evaluated. Therefore, LAMP primers for Salmonella genus, for two LAMP schemes for S. Paratyphi A, for S. Paratyphi B and for S. Paratyphi C were tested with DNA from culture isolates from strain collections and spiked blood cultures against published PCR protocols targeting the same micro-organisms. Sensitivity and specificity for DNA from culture isolates verified by LAMP ranged from 80·0 to 100·0% and 96·1 to 100·0% vs 65 to 100% and 98·7 to 100% for the PCR approaches. For the spiked blood culture materials, sensitivity and specificity for LAMP ranged from 87·5 to 100·0% and 96·7 to 100·0% vs from 60 to 100% and 98·2 to 100% for PCR. In conclusion, LAMP for paratyphoid fever shows comparable performance characteristics as PCR. Due to its easy application, the procedure is well suited for surveillance purposes in resource-limited settings. SIGNIFICANCE AND IMPACT OF THE STUDY: The use of easy-to-apply, point-of-care-testing-like loop-mediated isothermal amplification (LAMP) for the diagnosis of paratyphoid fever is evaluated. This approach can contribute to low-threshold availability of surveillance options for resource limited settings. Easy-to-teach and easy-to-apply LAMP schemes with similar performance characteristics as PCR are provided. The described test evaluation is of particular use for surveillance and public health experts.
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- S Rojak
- Department of Microbiology and Hospital Hygiene, Bundeswehr Hospital Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany.,Department of Infectious Diseases and Tropical Medicine, Bundeswehr Hospital Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany
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- Department of Infectious Diseases and Tropical Medicine, Bundeswehr Hospital Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany
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- Institute for Hygiene and Environment, City of Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany
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- Institute for Hygiene and Environment, City of Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany
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- Amplex Diagnostics GmbH, Gars-Bahnhof, Germany
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- Department of Microbiology and Hospital Hygiene, Bundeswehr Hospital Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany
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- Department of Preventive Medicine, Bundeswehr Medical Academy, Munich, Germany
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- Department of Microbiology and Hospital Hygiene, Bundeswehr Hospital Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany.,Institute for Medical Microbiology, Virology and Hygiene, University Medicine Rostock, Rostock, Germany
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Kaljee LM, Pach A, Garrett D, Bajracharya D, Karki K, Khan I. Social and Economic Burden Associated With Typhoid Fever in Kathmandu and Surrounding Areas: A Qualitative Study. J Infect Dis 2018; 218:S243-S249. [PMID: 28973415 PMCID: PMC6226633 DOI: 10.1093/infdis/jix122] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/13/2022] Open
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Typhoid fever is a significant contributor to infectious disease mortality and morbidity in low- and middle-income countries, particularly in South Asia. With increasing antimicrobial resistance, commonly used treatments are less effective and risks increase for complications and hospitalizations. During an episode of typhoid fever, households experience multiple social and economic costs that are often undocumented. In the current study, qualitative interview data from Kathmandu and surrounding areas provide important insights into the challenges that affect those who contract typhoid fever and their caregivers, families, and communities, as well as insight into prevention and treatment options for health providers and outreach workers. When considering typhoid fever cases confirmed by blood culture, our data reveal delays in healthcare access, financial and time costs burden on households, and the need to increase health literacy. These data also illustrate the impact of limited laboratory diagnostic equipment and tools on healthcare providers' abilities to distinguish typhoid fever from other febrile conditions and treatment challenges associated with antimicrobial resistance. In light of these findings, there is an urgent need to identify and implement effective preventive measures including vaccination policies and programs focused on at-risk populations and endemic regions such as Nepal.
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- Linda M Kaljee
- Global Health Initiative, Henry Ford Health System, Detroit, Michigan
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- International Vaccine Institute, Seoul, Korea
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- Coalition Against Typhoid, Sabin Institute, Washington, District of Columbia
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- Coalition Against Typhoid, Sabin Institute, Washington, District of Columbia
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Saha S, Islam M, Uddin MJ, Saha S, Das RC, Baqui AH, Santosham M, Black RE, Luby SP, Saha SK. Integration of enteric fever surveillance into the WHO-coordinated Invasive Bacterial-Vaccine Preventable Diseases (IB-VPD) platform: A low cost approach to track an increasingly important disease. PLoS Negl Trop Dis 2017; 11:e0005999. [PMID: 29073137 PMCID: PMC5658195 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0005999] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/23/2017] [Accepted: 09/28/2017] [Indexed: 01/07/2023] Open
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Background Lack of surveillance systems and accurate data impede evidence-based decisions on treatment and prevention of enteric fever, caused by Salmonella Typhi/Paratyphi. The WHO coordinates a global Invasive Bacterial–Vaccine Preventable Diseases (IB-VPD) surveillance network but does not monitor enteric fever. We evaluated the feasibility and sustainability of integrating enteric fever surveillance into the ongoing IB-VPD platform. Methodologies The IB-VPD surveillance system uses WHO definitions to enroll 2–59 month children hospitalized with possible pneumonia, sepsis or meningitis. We expanded this surveillance system to additionally capture suspect enteric fever cases during 2012–2016, in two WHO sentinel hospitals of Bangladesh, by adding inclusion criteria of fever ≥102°F for ≥3 days, irrespective of other manifestations. Culture-positive enteric fever cases from in-patient departments (IPD) detected in the hospital laboratories but missed by the expanded surveillance, were also enrolled to assess completion. Costs for this integration were calculated for the additional personnel and resources required. Principal findings In the IB-VPD surveillance, 5,185 cases were enrolled; 3% (N = 171/5185) were positive for microbiological growth, of which 55% (94/171) were culture-confirmed cases of enteric fever (85 Typhi and 9 Paratyphi A). The added inclusion criteria for enteric fever enrolled an additional 1,699 cases; 22% (358/1699) were positive, of which 85% (349/358) were enteric fever cases (305 Typhi and 44 Paratyphi A). Laboratory surveillance of in-patients of all ages enrolled 311 additional enteric fever cases (263 Typhi and 48 Paratyphi A); 9% (28/311) were 2–59 m and 91% (283/311) >59 m. Altogether, 754 (94+349+311) culture-confirmed enteric fever cases were found, of which 471 were 2–59 m. Of these 471 cases, 94% (443/471) were identified through the hospital surveillances and 6% (28/471) through laboratory results. Twenty-three percent (170/754) of all cases were children <2 years. Additional cost for the integration was USD 44,974/year, a 27% increase to the IB-VPD annual expenditure. Conclusion In a setting where enteric disease is a substantial public health problem, we could integrate enteric fever surveillance into the standard IB-VPD surveillance platform at a modest cost. Typhoid/paratyphoid fever imposes a major global burden, specifically in low-and-middle-income countries (LMICs). However, it is challenging to implement evidence-based decisions for treatment and prevention because of lack of data from comprehensive surveillance systems, which are often expensive and difficult to sustain. The WHO has established a global surveillance program called “Invasive Bacterial–Vaccine Preventable Diseases (IB-VPD) Surveillance” to capture sepsis, meningitis and pneumonia in under-five children in many LMICs. Data generated by this program have facilitated introduction of live-saving vaccines and development of treatment strategies. However, the program does not include typhoid/paratyphoid surveillance. We tested the feasibility and sustainability of integrating typhoid/paratyphoid surveillance into this program in two leading children’s hospitals in Bangladesh. By monitoring all patients with signs of typhoid/paratyphoid, we captured 471 laboratory-confirmed episodes in under-five children between Jan 2012 and Dec 2016. Blood culture results from all in-patients revealed that the proposed expanded surveillance captures 94% of hospitalized typhoid/paratyphoid cases. Thirty-six percent (170/471) of 2–59 m cases were in children <2 years. Overall, age distribution and antibiotic resistance patterns were consistent with data generated from larger, expensive and typhoid-specific surveillance programs in the region, adding credence to the proposed integration. Adding typhoid/paratyphoid surveillance to an established invasive disease surveillance platform took advantage of existing infrastructure and resources and as such was easy and cost-effective to implement. We recommend that WHO considers similar integration in other countries; data generated from such surveillances will help countries make evidence-based decisions on introduction of upcoming vaccines and prepare for impact studies.
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- Senjuti Saha
- Child Health Research Foundation, Department of Microbiology, Dhaka Shishu (Children) Hospital, Dhaka, Bangladesh
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- Child Health Research Foundation, Department of Microbiology, Dhaka Shishu (Children) Hospital, Dhaka, Bangladesh
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- Child Health Research Foundation, Department of Microbiology, Dhaka Shishu (Children) Hospital, Dhaka, Bangladesh
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- Child Health Research Foundation, Department of Microbiology, Dhaka Shishu (Children) Hospital, Dhaka, Bangladesh
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- Child Health Research Foundation, Department of Microbiology, Dhaka Shishu (Children) Hospital, Dhaka, Bangladesh
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- Department of International Health, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD, United States of America
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- Department of International Health, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD, United States of America
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- Department of International Health, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD, United States of America
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- Division of Infectious Diseases and Geographic Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, United States of America
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- Child Health Research Foundation, Department of Microbiology, Dhaka Shishu (Children) Hospital, Dhaka, Bangladesh
- Bangladesh Institute of Child Health, Dhaka Shishu (Children) Hospital, Dhaka, Bangladesh
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Efficacious typhoid fever vaccines have been available for decades. Typhoid fever burden of disease estimates indicate a substantial burden of illness and death in low-resource areas. The World Health Organization has recommended that countries consider the use of typhoid vaccines for high-risk groups and populations, and for outbreak control. Despite this, typhoid vaccines are not widely used in endemic areas. By examining strategies to improve burden of disease data, use of transmission dynamic models, economic evaluations, vaccine strategies, and experiences with typhoid vaccine pilot projects, the papers in this supplement help to plot the path toward rational and wider use of typhoid vaccines.
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- John A Crump
- Centre for International Health, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand.
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