The impact of migration and antimicrobial resistance on the transmission dynamics of typhoid fever in Kathmandu, Nepal: A mathematical modelling study

Neil J. Saad; Cayley C. Bowles; Bryan T. Grenfell; Buddha Basnyat; Amit Arjyal; Sabina Dongol; Abhilasha Karkey; Stephen Baker; Virginia E. Pitzer

doi:10.1371/journal.pntd.0005547

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The impact of migration and antimicrobial resistance on the transmission dynamics of typhoid fever in Kathmandu, Nepal: A mathematical modelling study

Neil J. Saad ,

* E-mail: neil.saad@yale.edu (NJS); virginia.pitzer@yale.edu (VEP)

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology of Microbial Diseases, Yale School of Public Health, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America

http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2106-9915

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Cayley C. Bowles,

Affiliation David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America
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Bryan T. Grenfell,

Affiliations Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, United States of America, Fogarty International Center, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America
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Buddha Basnyat,

Affiliations Oxford University Clinical Research Unit, Patan Academy of Health Sciences, Kathmandu, Nepal, Centre for Tropical Medicine and Global Health, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
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Amit Arjyal,

Affiliation Oxford University Clinical Research Unit, Patan Academy of Health Sciences, Kathmandu, Nepal
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Sabina Dongol,

Affiliation Oxford University Clinical Research Unit, Patan Academy of Health Sciences, Kathmandu, Nepal
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Abhilasha Karkey,

Affiliation Oxford University Clinical Research Unit, Patan Academy of Health Sciences, Kathmandu, Nepal
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Stephen Baker,

Affiliations Centre for Tropical Medicine and Global Health, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom, The Hospital for Tropical Diseases, Wellcome Trust Major Overseas Programme, Oxford University Clinical Research Unit, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
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Virginia E. Pitzer

* E-mail: neil.saad@yale.edu (NJS); virginia.pitzer@yale.edu (VEP)

Affiliations Department of Epidemiology of Microbial Diseases, Yale School of Public Health, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America, Fogarty International Center, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America
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The impact of migration and antimicrobial resistance on the transmission dynamics of typhoid fever in Kathmandu, Nepal: A mathematical modelling study

Neil J. Saad,
Cayley C. Bowles,
Bryan T. Grenfell,
Buddha Basnyat,
Amit Arjyal,
Sabina Dongol,
Abhilasha Karkey,
Stephen Baker,
Virginia E. Pitzer

Published: May 5, 2017
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0005547

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