Surveillance of Salmonella enterica serovar  Typhi in Colombia, 2012-2015.

ABSTRACT: Salmonella Typhi (S. Typhi) is the causative agent of typhoid fever; a systemic disease affecting ~20 million people per year globally. There are little data regarding the contemporary epidemiology of typhoid in Latin America. Consequently, we aimed to describe some recent epidemiological aspects of typhoid in Colombia using cases reported to the National Public Health Surveillance System (Sivigila) between 2012 and 2015. Over the four-year reporting period there were 836 culture confirmed cases of typhoid in Colombia, with the majority (676/836; 80.1%) of reported cases originated from only seven departments. We further characterized 402 S. Typhi isolates with available corresponding data recovered from various departments of Colombia through antimicrobial susceptibility testing and molec

SUBMITTER: Diaz-Guevara P 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7083327 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature