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Seroincidence of Enteric Fever, Juba, South Sudan

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EMERGING INFECTIOUS DISEASES
Volume 28, Issue 11, Pages 2316-2320

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CENTERS DISEASE CONTROL & PREVENTION
DOI: 10.3201/eid2811.220239

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  1. World Health Organization's Unity Studies, a global seroepidemiologic standardization initiative by the COVID-19 Solidarity Response
  2. Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation [INV-000572]
  3. US National Institutes of Health [R01AI134814]
  4. Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation [INV-000572] Funding Source: Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation

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In this study, a new serosurveillance tool was applied to estimate the burden of typhoidal Salmonella in a population in Juba, South Sudan. Using dried blood spot testing, the study found an enteric fever seroincidence rate of 30/100 person-years and a cumulative incidence of 74% over a 4-year period.
We applied a new serosurveillance tool to estimate ty-phoidal Salmonella burden using samples collected dur-ing 2020 from a population in Juba, South Sudan. By us-ing dried blood spot testing, we found an enteric fever seroincidence rate of 30/100 person-years and cumula-tive incidence of 74% over a 4-year period.

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