Environmental Transmission of Typhoid Fever in an Urban Slum

Adam Akullian; Eric Ng’eno; Alastair I. Matheson; Leonard Cosmas; Daniel Macharia; Barry Fields; Godfrey Bigogo; Maina Mugoh; Grace John-Stewart; Judd L. Walson; Jonathan Wakefield; Joel M. Montgomery

doi:10.1371/journal.pntd.0004212

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Environmental Transmission of Typhoid Fever in an Urban Slum

Adam Akullian ,

Contributed equally to this work with: Adam Akullian, Eric Ng’eno

* E-mail: akullian@u.washington.edu

Affiliation University of Washington, School of Public Health and Community Medicine, Department of Epidemiology, Seattle, Washington, United States of America
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Eric Ng’eno ,

Contributed equally to this work with: Adam Akullian, Eric Ng’eno

Affiliation Kenya Medical Research Institute, Center for Global Health Research (KEMRI-CGHR), Kenya
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Alastair I. Matheson,

Affiliation University of Washington, School of Public Health and Community Medicine, Department of Epidemiology, Seattle, Washington, United States of America
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Leonard Cosmas,

Affiliation Division of Global Health Protection, Center for Global Health, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention-Kenya, Nairobi, Kenya
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Daniel Macharia,

Affiliation Division of Global Health Protection, Center for Global Health, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention-Kenya, Nairobi, Kenya
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Barry Fields,

Affiliation Division of Global Health Protection, Center for Global Health, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention-Kenya, Nairobi, Kenya
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Godfrey Bigogo,

Affiliation Kenya Medical Research Institute, Center for Global Health Research (KEMRI-CGHR), Kenya
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Maina Mugoh,

Affiliation Kenya Medical Research Institute, Center for Global Health Research (KEMRI-CGHR), Kenya
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Grace John-Stewart,

Affiliation Departments of Global Health, Medicine, Pediatrics and Epidemiology, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America
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Judd L. Walson,

Affiliation Departments of Global Health, Medicine, Pediatrics and Epidemiology, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America
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Jonathan Wakefield,

Affiliation University of Washington, Department of Statistics and Biostatistics, Seattle, Washington, United States of America
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Joel M. Montgomery

Affiliation Division of Global Health Protection, Center for Global Health, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention-Kenya, Nairobi, Kenya
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Environmental Transmission of Typhoid Fever in an Urban Slum

Adam Akullian,
Eric Ng’eno,
Alastair I. Matheson,
Leonard Cosmas,
Daniel Macharia,
Barry Fields,
Godfrey Bigogo,
Maina Mugoh,
Grace John-Stewart,
Judd L. Walson

Published: December 3, 2015
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0004212

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