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.

Project Start
1995-06-02
Project End
Budget Start
1995-06-02
Budget End
1996-05-31
Support Year
Fiscal Year
1995
Total Cost
Indirect Cost
Name
Pasteur Institute
Department
Type
DUNS #
City
Ho Chi Minh City
State
Country
Vietnam
Zip Code
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