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ArticleThe Journal of infectious diseases2021

Geographically Weighted Regression Modeling of Spatial Clustering and Determinants of Focal Typhoid Fever Incidence.

Venkata Raghava Mohan, Manikandan Srinivasan, Bireshwar Sinha, Ankita Shrivastava, Suman Kanungo, Kulandaipalayam Natarajan Sindhu, Karthikeyan Ramanujam, Santhosh Kumar Ganesan, Arun S Karthikeyan, Senthil Kumar Jaganathan and 7 more

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Article in The Journal of infectious diseases, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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4 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 8 citations in OpenAlex.

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17 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.

Venkata Raghava MohanDepartment of Community Health, Christian Medical College, Vellore, India.ORCID 0000-0001-5787-7223
Manikandan SrinivasanWellcome Trust Research Laboratory, Division of Gastrointestinal Sciences, Christian Medical College, Vellore, India.
Bireshwar SinhaCentre for Health Research and Development-Society for Applied Studies, New Delhi, India.ORCID 0000-0002-7408-7474
Ankita ShrivastavaKEM Hospital Research Centre, Pune, India.
Suman KanungoNational Institute of Cholera and Enteric Diseases, Kolkata, India.
Kulandaipalayam Natarajan SindhuWellcome Trust Research Laboratory, Division of Gastrointestinal Sciences, Christian Medical College, Vellore, India.
Karthikeyan RamanujamWellcome Trust Research Laboratory, Division of Gastrointestinal Sciences, Christian Medical College, Vellore, India.
Santhosh Kumar GanesanWellcome Trust Research Laboratory, Division of Gastrointestinal Sciences, Christian Medical College, Vellore, India.
Arun S KarthikeyanWellcome Trust Research Laboratory, Division of Gastrointestinal Sciences, Christian Medical College, Vellore, India.
Senthil Kumar JaganathanDepartment of Community Health, Christian Medical College, Vellore, India.
Annai GunasekaranWellcome Trust Research Laboratory, Division of Gastrointestinal Sciences, Christian Medical College, Vellore, India.
Alok AryaCentre for Health Research and Development-Society for Applied Studies, New Delhi, India.
Ashish BavdekarKEM Hospital Research Centre, Pune, India.
Temsunaro Rongsen-ChandolaCentre for Health Research and Development-Society for Applied Studies, New Delhi, India.
Shanta DuttaNational Institute of Cholera and Enteric Diseases, Kolkata, India.
Jacob JohnDepartment of Community Health, Christian Medical College, Vellore, India.ORCID 0000-0003-3654-5099
Gagandeep KangWellcome Trust Research Laboratory, Division of Gastrointestinal Sciences, Christian Medical College, Vellore, India.ORCID 0000-0002-3656-564X
Christian Medical College, Vellore · INSociety for Applied Studies · INNational Institute of Cholera and Enteric Diseases · IN

Funding

Multi-disciplinary research training in enteric infectionsD43TW007392 · FIC · CHRISTIAN MEDICAL COLLEGE · PI KANG, GAGANDEEP · 2005 to 2020
$2.9M
FIC NIH HHS D43 TW007392
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

backgroundTyphoid is known to be heterogenous in time and space, with documented spatiotemporal clustering and hotspots associated with environmental factors. This analysis evaluated spatial clustering of typhoid and modeled incidence rates of typhoid from active surveillance at 4 sites with child cohorts in India.

methodsAmong approximately 24 000 children aged 0.5-15 years followed for 2 years, typhoid was confirmed by blood culture in all children with fever >3 days. Local hotspots for incident typhoid cases were assessed using SaTScan spatial cluster detection. Incidence of typhoid was modeled with sociodemographic and water, sanitation, and hygiene-related factors in smaller grids using nonspatial and spatial regression analyses.

resultsHotspot households for typhoid were identified at Vellore and Kolkata. There were 4 significant SaTScan clusters (P < .05) for typhoid in Vellore. Mean incidence of typhoid was 0.004 per child-year with the highest incidence (0.526 per child-year) in Kolkata. Unsafe water and poor sanitation were positively associated with typhoid in Kolkata and Delhi, whereas drinking untreated water was significantly associated in Vellore (P = .0342) and Delhi (P = .0188).

conclusionsDespite decades of efforts to improve water and sanitation by the Indian government, environmental factors continue to influence the incidence of typhoid. Hence, administration of the conjugate vaccine may be essential even as efforts to improve water and sanitation continue.

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Typhoid FeverTyphoid-Paratyphoid VaccinesAdolescentChildChild, PreschoolCluster AnalysisHumansIncidenceInfantSpatial RegressionWaterTyphoid-Paratyphoid VaccinesWatergeographically weighted regressionhotspotsSaTScan clustersspatial autocorrelationtyphoid incidence

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