The global burden of typhoid and paratyphoid fevers: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Efforts to quantify the global burden of enteric fever are valuable for understanding the health lost and the large-scale spatial distribution of the disease. We present the estimates of typhoid and paratyphoid fever burden from the Global Burden of Diseases, Injuries, and Risk Factors Study (GBD) 2017, and the approach taken to produce them.

Methods

For this systematic analysis we broke down the relative contributions of typhoid and paratyphoid fevers by country, year, and age, and analysed trends in incidence and mortality. We modelled the combined incidence of typhoid and paratyphoid fevers and split these total cases proportionally between typhoid and paratyphoid fevers using aetiological proportion models. We estimated deaths using vital registration data for

SUBMITTER: GBD 2017 Typhoid and Paratyphoid Collaborators 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6437314 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature