Putting Typhoid Vaccination on the Global Health Agenda  

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DeRoeck, Denise ; Jodar, Luis ; Clemens, John K.

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: The New England Journal of Medicine (keterangan: ada di Proquest) vol. 357 no. 11 (Sep. 2007), page 1069.

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Perpustakaan FK Nomor Panggil: N08.K.2007.05 Non-tandon: 1 (dapat dipinjam: 0) Tandon: tidak ada

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Although typhoid fever, caused by infection with Salmonella enterica serovar Typhi (often called S. typhi), long ago ceased to be a public health problem in industrialized countries, it is still a substantial cause of illness and death in many developing countries. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), there are 16 million to 33 million cases and 500,000 to 600,000 deaths from typhoid fever annually,1 though one study conservatively estimated that 22 million cases and 216,000 related deaths occurred in 2000.2 This death rate is not much lower than the estimated 270,000 annual deaths from cervical cancer, caused largely . . .

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