The national disease reporting system reports an increasing trend in clinician-diagnosed typhoid from 480,000 in 2001 to 1,800,000 in 2015.
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Uncertainty regarding the burden of disease is based on the lack of reliable, recent estimates of culture-confirmed typhoid and an observed trend of low isolations of Salmonella Typhi and fewer complications at large referral hospitals in India.