This is Samina’s story as told by her father, Ejaz Somro, to Attaullah Baig and Sultan Karim of Aga Khan University Hospital. Samina recently became ill with ceftriaxone-resistant typhoid during ...
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Author: Attaullah Baig, Aga Khan University
Knowledge Exchange Newsletter, June 2017
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 ...
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Ensuring resistance doesn’t take hold: The importance of taking on typhoid now
This blog post was originally published on the Global Health Technologies Coalition’s Breakthroughs Blog. Typhoid may seem like a distant memory in industrialized countries, but for many low- and middle-income ...
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Stories of Typhoid: Meet Gul Rahim In the most powerful and moving Story of Typhoid yet, 15-year-old Gul Rahim tells us in his own words how his dreams and hopes for the ...
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Stories of Typhoid: Gul Rahim
This is Gul Rahim’s story of typhoid, as told to Attaullah Baig of Aga Khan University Hospital on January 7, 2017, and translated into English. The interview was conducted in ...
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From Evidence to Action: Typhoid Experts Exchange Data, Strategies During Biennual Conference
More than 300 researchers from 45 countries gathered in Kampala, Uganda in early April for the 10th International Conference on Typhoid and Other Invasive Salmonelloses. Hosted by the Sabin Vaccine Institute’s ...
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Committee Head for Coalition against Typhoid Wins Prestigious Award
The Coalition against Typhoid is proud to announce that Dr. Samir Saha, the chair of our steering committee, is the distinguished recipient of the 2017 Award for Research in Clinical ...
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New Findings for Typhoid Fever in Africa
For years, little was known of the typhoid burden in Africa, even though outbreaks of multi-drug resistant typhoid were becoming increasingly common. This lack of information spurred the Bill and ...
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A Successful Conference Thank you to all those who presented or attended the 10th International Conference on Typhoid and Other Invasive Salmonelloses in Kampala, Uganda! The three day conference was well-received, ...
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Typhoid Carried from Overseas Brings Global Threat to New Zealand
Overseas travelers can sometimes bring back unwanted souvenirs — with tragic consequences. A localized outbreak of typhoid in Auckland, New Zealand has taken the life of one patient and affected ...
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