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SUBMITTER: Saha S
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6335896 | biostudies-other | 2019 Jan
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other
The American journal of tropical medicine and hygiene 20190101 1
With prequalification of a typhoid conjugate vaccine by the World Health Organization, countries are deciding whether and at what geographic scale to provide the vaccine. Optimal local data to clarify typhoid risk are expensive and often unavailable. To determine whether quantitative polymerase chain reaction (qPCR) can be used as a tool to detect typhoidal <i>Salmonella</i> DNA in the environment and approximate the burden of enteric fever, we tested water samples from urban Dhaka, where enteri ...[more]