Featured
- In “Ensuring resistance doesn’t take hold: The importance of taking on typhoid now,” Dr. Kathleen Neuzil, director of the Center for Vaccine Development, urges us all to #TakeOnTyphoid before available antibiotics are no longer able to treat typhoid
- A PLOS Global Health blog post, “When water doesn’t flow…”, takes a hard look at the impact the lack of water has on healthcare facilities where typhoid is endemic
Typhoid Watch
- Guyana – A 35-year-old miner has died of typhoid and malaria, while his wife has been hospitalized
- India – Delhi reports a 20 to 25 percent spike in cases of heat stroke, typhoid and other ailments. Gurgaon, Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh and Kerala report similar surges in typhoid cases
- Iraq – Medical sources announced dozens of typhoid reports in the city of Baghdad because of contamination of drinking water and high temperatures
- Nigeria – Ongoing famine and the impending rainy season raises fears about typhoid risk in northeast Nigeria
- Tajikistan – Five villagers in Bokhtar district of Khatlon province were hospitalized with typhoid, with 70 more suspected typhoid cases reported in the region. Local doctors link cases of typhoid in the region with problems of providing residents with clean drinking water
- Turkey – A possible Salmonella infection has killed one and hospitalized more than a thousand soldiers
- Zambia – The typhoid outbreak in Mpika district is now under control, according to the province health director. There have been 160 cases of typhoid and two deaths
- Zimbabwe – Typhoid has resurfaced in Zimbabwe, with 16 cases reported across the country, 14 of which were in Harare
Publications
Featured
- Clean water, clean hands or new vaccines? – Journal of Infection
- A forecast of typhoid conjugate vaccine introduction and demand in typhoid endemic low and middle countries to support vaccine introduction policy and decisions – Human Vaccines & Immunotherapeutics
Antimicrobial Resistance
- In vitro efficacy and in-silico analysis of cefixime-ofloxacin combination for Salmonella Typhi from bloodstream infection – Journal of Applied Microbiology
Complications and Case Studies
- Typhoid spondylodiscitis mimicking tuberculosis in a teenage girl – Journal of Infection and Public Health
Diagnostics
- Rapid diagnostic tests for typhoid and paratyphoid (enteric) fever – The Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews
- An evaluation of purified Salmonella Typhi protein antigens for the serological diagnosis of acute typhoid fever – The Journal of Infection
- Detection of typhoid fever by diatom-based optical biosensor – Environmental Science and Pollution Research
- Development of ELISAs for diagnosis of acute typhoid fever in Nigerian children – PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases
Epidemiology
- Trends of vaccine-preventable diseases in Afghanistan from the Disease Early Warning System, 2009-2015 – PLoS One
Vaccines
- Synthesis and antigenic evaluation of oligosaccharide mimics of Vi antigen from Salmonella typhi – Chemistry
- Protection against inhalation anthrax by immunization with Salmonella enterica serovar Typhi Ty21a stably producing protective antigen of Bacillus anthracis – Nature
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