Global Typhoid Fever Incidence: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Contemporary incidence estimates of typhoid fever are needed to guide policy decisions and control measures and to improve future epidemiological studies.

Methods

We systematically reviewed 3 databases (Ovid Medline, PubMed, and Scopus) without restriction on age, country, language, or time for studies reporting the incidence of blood culture-confirmed typhoid fever. Outbreak, travel-associated, and passive government surveillance reports were excluded. We performed a meta-analysis using a random-effects model to calculate estimates of pooled incidence, stratifying by studies that reported the incidence of typhoid fever and those that estimated incidence by using multipliers.

Results

Thirty-three studies were included in the analysis. There were 26 study si

SUBMITTER: Marchello CS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6405273 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature