Table 4.

Presence of Concurrent Stool Shedders of Salmonella Typhi Within the 56 Households of Typhoid-Positive Children

Variable	N (%)
Number of households with index case that had at least 1 family member shedding S Typhi in stool	11a/56 (19.6%)
Number of household contacts (n = 172) from 56 households who were found to shed S Typhi in stool	12/172 (7%)
Number of contacts who shed S Typhi more than once during follow up	2/12 (16.7%)

^aFour and 7 households had S Typhi shedders who were asymptomatic and symptomatic, respectively. Of the 7 households with symptomatic shedders, 3 had a shedder and each had history of fever; the other 4 households had sibling children as shedders and typhoid fever had been confirmed by blood culture.