Molecular Surveillance Identifies Multiple Transmissions of Typhoid in West Africa

• Main Authors: Vanessa K. Wong, Kathryn E. Holt, Chinyere Okoro, Stephen Baker, Derek J. Pickard, Florian Marks, Andrew J. Page, Grace Olanipekun, Huda Munir, Roxanne Alter, Paul D. Fey, Nicholas A. Feasey, François Xavier Weill, Simon Le Hello, Peter J. Hart, Samuel Kariuki, Robert F. Breiman, Melita A. Gordon, Robert S. Heyderman, Jan Jacobs, Octavie Lunguya, Chisomo Msefula, Calman A. MacLennan, Karen H. Keddy, Anthony M. Smith, Robert S. Onsare, Elizabeth De Pinna, Satheesh Nair, Ben Amos, Gordon Dougan, Stephen Obaro, Julian Parkhill, Robert A. Kingsley, Nicholas R. Thomson, Jacqueline A. Keane, Jane Hawkey, David J. Edwards, Zoe A. Dyson, Simon R. Harris, Amy K. Cain, James Hadfield, Elizabeth J. Klemm, Conall H. Watson, W. John Edmunds, Nga Tran Vu Thieu, Mike Kama, Kylie Jenkins, Shanta Dutta, Josefina Campos, Corinne Thompson, Christiane Dolecek, Christopher M. Parry, Abhilasha Karkey, E. Kim Mulholland, James I. Campbell, Sabina Dongol, Buddha Basnyat, Amit Arjyal, Muriel Dufour, Don Bandaranayake, Take N. Toleafoa, Shalini Pravin Singh, Mochammad Hatta, Lupeoletalalelei Isaia
• Other Authors: Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute
• Format: Article
• Published: 2018
• Subjects: Medicine
• Online Access: https://repository.li.mahidol.ac.th/handle/123456789/41138
• Institution: Mahidol University

© 2016 Public Library of Science. All rights reserved. Background: The burden of typhoid in sub-Saharan African (SSA) countries has been difficult to estimate, in part, due to suboptimal laboratory diagnostics. However, surveillance blood cultures at two sites in Nigeria have identified typhoid asso...