作者
Senjuti Saha, Maksuda Islam, Shampa Saha, Mohammad Jamal Uddin, Hafizur Rahman, Rajib Chandra Das, Md Hasan, Md Ruhul Amin, Mohammed Hanif, Mohammad Shahidullah, Manzoor Hussain, Samir K Saha
发表日期
2018/11/10
期刊
The Journal of Infectious Diseases
卷号
218
期号
suppl_4
页码范围
S227-S231
出版商
Oxford University Press
简介
Background
Designing comprehensive surveillance to generate credible burden estimates of enteric fever in an endemic country can be challenging because care-seeking behavior is complex and surveillance in different healthcare facilities may lead to documentation of different epidemiological characteristics.
Methods
We conducted retrospective surveillance in 3 healthcare facilities to identify culture-confirmed enteric fever cases in Dhaka, Bangladesh, from January 2012 through December 2016. The study settings included (1) hospital in-patient department (IPD), (2) hospital out-patient department (OPD), and (3) private consultation center OPD. We analyzed the cases to understand their distribution, age ranges, and antibiotic susceptibility patterns across the settings.
Results
Of the 1837 culture-confirmed enteric fever cases, 59% (1079 of 1837) were …
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