Integration of enteric fever surveillance into the WHO-coordinated Invasive Bacterial-Vaccine Preventable Diseases (IB-VPD) platform: A low cost approach to track an increasingly important disease.

Senjuti SahaMaksuda IslamMohammad J UddinShampa SahaRajib C DasAbdullah H BaquiMathuram SantoshamRobert E BlackStephen P LubySamir Kumar Saha

Published in: PLoS neglected tropical diseases (2017)

In a setting where enteric disease is a substantial public health problem, we could integrate enteric fever surveillance into the standard IB-VPD surveillance platform at a modest cost.

Keyphrases

public health
low cost
high throughput
global health
electronic health record