Bacteremic Typhoid Fever in Children in an Urban Slum, Bangladesh

Abstract

We confirmed a bacteremic typhoid fever incidence of 3.9 episodes/1,000 person-years during fever surveillance in a Dhaka urban slum. The relative risk for preschool children compared with older persons was 8.9. Our regression model showed that these children were clinically ill, which suggests a role for preschool immunization.

Keywords

• Salmonella Typhi
• typhoid fever
• preschool children
• population-based
• surveillance
• incidence