Persistence of Rare Salmonella Typhi Genotypes Susceptible to First-Line Antibiotics in the Remote Islands of Samoa

Persistence of Rare Salmonella Typhi Genotypes Susceptible to First-Line Antibiotics in the Remote Islands of Samoa

ABSTRACT For decades, the remote island nation of Samoa (population ~200,000) has faced endemic typhoid fever despite improvements in water quality, sanitation, and economic development. We recently described the epidemiology of typhoid fever in Samoa from 2008 to 2019 by person, place, and time; ho...

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Main Authors: Michael J. Sikorski, Tracy H. Hazen, Sachin N. Desai, Susana Nimarota-Brown, Siaosi Tupua, Michelle Sialeipata, Savitra Rambocus, Danielle J. Ingle, Sebastian Duchene, Susan A. Ballard, Mary Valcanis, Sara Zufan, Jianguo Ma, Jason W. Sahl, Mailis Maes, Gordon Dougan, Robert E. Thomsen, Roy M. Robins-Browne, Benjamin P. Howden, Take K. Naseri, Myron M. Levine, David A. Rasko
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: American Society for Microbiology 2022-10-01
Series:mBio
Subjects:
typhoid fever
Salmonella Typhi
genomics
epidemiology
Oceania
Samoa
Online Access:https://journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/mbio.01920-22

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