Table 1.

Overview of the Children With Blood-Culture Confirmed Typhoid Fever (From SEFI Cohort) Enrolled in the Study on Stool Carriage

Variable	n (%)
Number of children with blood culture-confirmed typhoid fever in the SEFI cohort between November 2018 and June 2019	78
Number of children with blood culture-confirmed typhoid fever who consented to participate in the stool carriage study	70a/78 (89.7)
Number of children with typhoid fever who shed Salmonella Typhi in stool	16b/70 (22.9)
Number of children with typhoid fever who shed S Typhi in stool after the onset of fever	15/70 (21.4)
Median time (IQR) to shed S Typhi in stool from blood culture positivity, days	14 (8–21)
Number of children with stool samples positive for S Typhi more than once in the follow-up period	3/16 (18.8)

Abbreviations: IQR, interquartile range; SEFI, Surveillance for Enteric Fever in India.

^aThese 70 children resided within 63 households.

^bOne child was under follow-up as a household contact initially when his sibling was the index case for the particular household. Subsequently, this child developed fever and was also found to be typhoid positive by blood culture. Hence, we were able to find out that this child shed S Typhi 4 days before the confirmation of typhoid fever by blood culture, thereby having been an incubatory carrier.