population-based surveillance of typhoid fever in egypt. | credible measures of disease incidence are necessary to guide typhoid fever control efforts. in egypt, incidence estimates have been derived from hospital-based syndromic surveillance, which may not represent the population with typhoid fever. to determine the population-based incidence of typhoid fever in fayoum governorate (pop. 2,240,000), we established laboratory-based surveillance at five tiers of health care. incidence estimates were adjusted for sampling and test sensitivity. of 1,815 pa ... | 2006 | 16407354 |