Typhoid Fever in Young Children in Bangladesh: Clinical Findings, Antibiotic Susceptibility Pattern and Immune Responses

Farhana Khanam; Md. Abu Sayeed; Feroza Kaneez Choudhury; Alaullah Sheikh; Dilruba Ahmed; Doli Goswami; Md. Lokman Hossain; Abdullah Brooks; Stephen B. Calderwood; Richelle C. Charles; Alejandro Cravioto; Edward T. Ryan; Firdausi Qadri

doi:10.1371/journal.pntd.0003619

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Typhoid Fever in Young Children in Bangladesh: Clinical Findings, Antibiotic Susceptibility Pattern and Immune Responses

Farhana Khanam,

Affiliation Centre for Vaccine Sciences, International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh (icddr,b), Dhaka, Bangladesh
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Md. Abu Sayeed,

Affiliation Centre for Vaccine Sciences, International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh (icddr,b), Dhaka, Bangladesh
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Feroza Kaneez Choudhury,

Affiliation Centre for Vaccine Sciences, International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh (icddr,b), Dhaka, Bangladesh
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Alaullah Sheikh,

Affiliations Centre for Vaccine Sciences, International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh (icddr,b), Dhaka, Bangladesh, Molecular Microbiology and Microbial pathogenesis program, Division of Biology and Biomedical Sciences, Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America
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Dilruba Ahmed,

Affiliation Centre for Vaccine Sciences, International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh (icddr,b), Dhaka, Bangladesh
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Doli Goswami,

Affiliation Centre for Vaccine Sciences, International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh (icddr,b), Dhaka, Bangladesh
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Md. Lokman Hossain,

Affiliation Centre for Vaccine Sciences, International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh (icddr,b), Dhaka, Bangladesh
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Abdullah Brooks,

Affiliation Centre for Vaccine Sciences, International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh (icddr,b), Dhaka, Bangladesh
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Stephen B. Calderwood,

Affiliations Division of Infectious Diseases, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
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Richelle C. Charles,

Affiliations Division of Infectious Diseases, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
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Alejandro Cravioto,

Affiliation Avenida Universidad 1900, México, D.F., México
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Edward T. Ryan ,

¶‡ These authors are joint senior authors on this work.

Affiliations Division of Infectious Diseases, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Immunology and Infectious Diseases, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
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Firdausi Qadri

* E-mail: fqadri@icddrb.org

¶‡ These authors are joint senior authors on this work.

Affiliation Centre for Vaccine Sciences, International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh (icddr,b), Dhaka, Bangladesh
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Typhoid Fever in Young Children in Bangladesh: Clinical Findings, Antibiotic Susceptibility Pattern and Immune Responses

Farhana Khanam,
Md. Abu Sayeed,
Feroza Kaneez Choudhury,
Alaullah Sheikh,
Dilruba Ahmed,
Doli Goswami,
Md. Lokman Hossain,
Abdullah Brooks,
Stephen B. Calderwood,
Richelle C. Charles

Published: April 7, 2015
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0003619

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