Can Existing Improvements of Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene (WASH) in Urban Slums Reduce the Burden of Typhoid Fever in These Settings?
Justin ImMd Taufiqul IslamFaisal AhmmedDeok Ryun KimAshraful Islam KhanKhalequ ZamanMohammad AliFlorian MarksFirdausi QadriJerome KimJohn D ClemensPublished in: Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America (2021)
In this typhoid-endemic setting, natural variation in household WASH was associated with typhoid risk. If replicated elsewhere, these findings suggest that WASH improvements may enhance typhoid control, short of major infrastructural investments.
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