The purpose of this project is to conduct epidemiological surveillance for typhoid fever over a period of 12 months to assess the incidence, age, sex and seasonal distribution of cases. The study is to conduct a health facility-based surveillance, enhanced by case and contact household investigations in one of the 2 communes and a town near the Provincial Hospital of Dong Thap Province in Vietnam.
| Lin, F Y; Vo, A H; Phan, V B et al. (2000) The epidemiology of typhoid fever in the Dong Thap Province, Mekong Delta region of Vietnam. Am J Trop Med Hyg 62:644-8 |
