A Large-Scale Community-Based Outbreak of Paratyphoid Fever Caused by Hospital-Derived Transmission in Southern China

• Meiying Yan ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Meiying Yan, Bo Yang, Zhigang Wang, Shukun Wang

  Affiliations State Key Laboratory for Infectious Disease Prevention and Control, National Institute for Communicable Disease Control and Prevention, Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Beijing, China, Collaborative Innovation Center for Diagnosis and Treatment of Infectious Diseases, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China

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• Bo Yang ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Meiying Yan, Bo Yang, Zhigang Wang, Shukun Wang

  Affiliations State Key Laboratory for Infectious Disease Prevention and Control, National Institute for Communicable Disease Control and Prevention, Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Beijing, China, Collaborative Innovation Center for Diagnosis and Treatment of Infectious Diseases, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China

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• Zhigang Wang ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Meiying Yan, Bo Yang, Zhigang Wang, Shukun Wang

  Affiliation Center for Disease Control and Prevention of Yuanjiang County, Yunnan, China

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• Shukun Wang ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Meiying Yan, Bo Yang, Zhigang Wang, Shukun Wang

  Affiliation Center for Disease Control and Prevention of Yuxi City, Yunnan, China

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• Xiaohe Zhang,

  Affiliation Center for Disease Control and Prevention of Yuanjiang County, Yunnan, China

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• Yanhua Zhou,

  Affiliation Center for Disease Control and Prevention of Yuanjiang County, Yunnan, China

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• Bo Pang,

  Affiliations State Key Laboratory for Infectious Disease Prevention and Control, National Institute for Communicable Disease Control and Prevention, Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Beijing, China, Collaborative Innovation Center for Diagnosis and Treatment of Infectious Diseases, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China

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• Baowei Diao,

  Affiliations State Key Laboratory for Infectious Disease Prevention and Control, National Institute for Communicable Disease Control and Prevention, Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Beijing, China, Collaborative Innovation Center for Diagnosis and Treatment of Infectious Diseases, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China

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• Rusong Yang,

  Affiliation Center for Disease Control and Prevention of Yuanjiang County, Yunnan, China

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• Shuyu Wu,

  Affiliations International Emerging Infections Program, US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Beijing, China, Global Disease Detection Branch, Division of Global Health Protection, Center for Global Health, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

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• John D. Klena,

  Affiliations International Emerging Infections Program, US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Beijing, China, Global Disease Detection Branch, Division of Global Health Protection, Center for Global Health, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

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• Biao Kan

  * E-mail: kanbiao@icdc.cn

  Affiliations State Key Laboratory for Infectious Disease Prevention and Control, National Institute for Communicable Disease Control and Prevention, Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Beijing, China, Collaborative Innovation Center for Diagnosis and Treatment of Infectious Diseases, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China

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