Ever heard of a conjugate vaccine? You may have heard of one that prevents a key cause of pneumonia (the pneumococcal conjugate vaccine, PCV), or maybe one that stops a ...
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Aga Khan University Team Investigates Outbreak Of Antibiotic Resistant Typhoid Fever
Investigators from the Aga Khan University (AKU) are actively investigating a large outbreak of typhoid fever bacteria that are resistant to ceftriaxone, an antibiotic commonly used by physicians to treat ...
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Stories of Typhoid: Meet Samina Samina was only six years old when she fell ill with antibiotic-resistant typhoid during an ongoing outbreak in Pakistan. Her father, Ejaz Somro, tells Samina’s tragic ...
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