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Risk factors for the development of severe typhoid fever in Vietnam.
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BACKGROUND: Typhoid fever is a systemic infection caused by the bacterium Salmonella enterica serovar Typhi. Age, sex, prolonged duration of illness, and infection with an antimicrobial resistant organism have been proposed risk factors for the development of severe disease or fatality in typhoid fever. METHODS: We analysed clinical data from 581 patients consecutively admitted with culture confirmed typhoid fever to two hospitals in Vietnam during two periods in 1993-1995 and 1997-1999. Thes...
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- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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Wellcome Trust
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Bibliographic Details
- Publisher:
- BioMed Central Publisher's website
- Journal:
- BMC infectious diseases Journal website
- Volume:
- 14
- Issue:
- 1
- Pages:
- 73
- Publication date:
- 2014-01-01
- DOI:
- EISSN:
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1471-2334
- ISSN:
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1471-2334
- Source identifiers:
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449220
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- Language:
- English
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- Local pid:
- pubs:449220
- Deposit date:
- 2014-02-23
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- Copyright holder:
- Parry et al
- Copyright date:
- 2014
- Notes:
- © 2014 Parry et al.; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated.
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- CC Attribution (CC BY)
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