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Area of Science:

  • Infectious Diseases
  • Epidemiology
  • Immunology

Background:

  • Enteric fever, caused by typhoidal Salmonella (Salmonella enterica serovars Typhi and Paratyphi), has unknown incidence in areas lacking blood culture surveillance.
  • Accurate incidence data is crucial for understanding disease burden and implementing effective control strategies.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To evaluate novel serological markers for reliably estimating population-level incidence of typhoidal Salmonella infections.
  • To assess the feasibility of expanding surveillance for enteric fever beyond traditional methods.

Main Methods:

  • Longitudinal blood samples from enteric fever patients and cross-sectional serosurveys were collected in Bangladesh, Nepal, Pakistan, and Ghana (2016-2021).
  • ELISAs measured IgA and IgG antibody responses to hemolysin E and S Typhi lipopolysaccharide.
  • Bayesian hierarchical models analyzed antibody kinetics to estimate population incidence from serosurveys.

Main Results:

  • Longitudinal antibody kinetics were consistent across countries and did not correlate with clinical severity.
  • Seroincidence in children under 5 varied significantly, from 58.5/100 person-years in Bangladesh to 6.6/100 person-years in Nepal.
  • Estimated seroincidence ranked similarly to existing clinical incidence data.

Conclusions:

  • The developed serological approach can estimate typhoidal Salmonella incidence in populations without robust blood culture surveillance.
  • This method has the potential to broaden the geographical reach of surveillance and enable comparable incidence estimates over time and across regions.