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Can existing improvements of water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) in urban slums reduce the burden of typhoid fever in these settings?
2020
Clinical Infectious Diseases
Background Sustained investment in water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) has lagged in resource-poor settings; incremental WASH improvements may, nonetheless, prevent diseases such as typhoid in disease-endemic populations. Methods Using prospective data from a large cohort in urban Kolkata, India, we evaluated whether baseline WASH variables predicted typhoid risk in a training subpopulation (n=28470). We applied a machine learning algorithm to the training subset to create a composite,
doi:10.1093/cid/ciaa1429
pmid:32964216
fatcat:u7y6tzybkfbsxdv5o2vsxgmp3a