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Estimating the economic burden of typhoid in children and adults in Blantyre, Malawi: A costing cohort study
ABSTRACT Background: Typhoid causes preventable death and disease. The World Health Organization recommends Typhoid Conjugate Vaccine for endemic countries, but introduction decisions depend on cost-effectiveness. We estimated household and healthcare ...
Read moreTyphoid conjugate vaccine effectiveness in Malawi: evaluation of a test-negative design using randomised, controlled clinical trial data
Abstract Background: Typhoid conjugate vaccines are being introduced in low-income and middle-income countries to prevent typhoid illness in children. Vaccine effectiveness studies assess vaccine performance after introduction. The test-negative design ...
Read moreProgress in Typhoid Fever Epidemiology
AUTHORS John A Crump ABSTRACT Salmonella enterica subspecies enterica serovar Typhi (Salmonella Typhi) is the cause of typhoid fever and a human host-restricted organism. Our understanding of the global burden ...
Read morePrevalence of Salmonella typhi in among febrile patients in a tertiary care hospital of South West Rajasthan
AUTHORS Upasana Bhumbla, Parul Chaturvedi, Sarita Jain ABSTRACT Background: Salmonella enterica, serotype typhi, remains the predominant Salmonella species causing enteric fever in India. The mode of Salmonella typhi transmission is ...
Read moreTyphoid fever control in the 21st century: where are we now?
AUTHORS Megan E Carey, Naina S McCann, Malick M Gibani ABSTRACT Purpose of review: Momentum for achieving widespread control of typhoid fever has been growing over the past decade. Typhoid ...
Read moreSafety and immunogenicity of a typhoid conjugate vaccine among children aged 9 months to 12 years in Malawi: a nested substudy of a double-blind, randomised controlled trial
AUTHORS Nginache Nampota-Nkomba, MBBS, Osward M Nyirenda, BSc, Lameck Khonde, BSc, Victoria Mapemba, BSc, Maurice Mbewe, BSc, John M Ndaferankhande, BSc, et al. BACKGROUND Typhoid fever is a substantial public ...
Read moreField evaluation of typhoid conjugate vaccine in a catch-up campaign among children aged 9 months to 15 years in Sindh, Pakistan
AUTHORS Rozina S.Thobania, Mohammad Tahir Yousafzaiac, Shazia Sultanaa, Abdul Momin Kazia, Muhammad, Jana, Abdul, Rafeya Ayub Khana, Seema Irfana, Ikram Uddin Ujjand Nick Brown, Andreas Mårtensson, Farah Naz Qamar ABSTRACT ...
Read moreExtensively Drug-Resistant Typhoidal Salmonellae: Are These Bugs Swarming Into Suburban and Rural Areas of Pakistan?
AUTHORS Muhammad Ashraf Hussain, Imran Ahmed, Sumera Akram , Muhammad A Khan, Shamshad Ali, Mumtaz Amir ABSTRACT Typhoid is a serious public health concern with increasing antibiotic resistance. Early suspicion ...
Read moreOutbreak of Typhoid Fever in Children of Urban Vellore: A Report from the Surveillance for Enteric Fever in India Cohort
AUTHORS Manikandan Srinivasan, Kulandaipalayam Natarajan Sindhu, J Senthil Kumar, Ranjith Kumar Ramasamy, Agila Kumari Pragasam, Pratheepa Aasaithampi, Venkata Raghava Mohan, Gagandeep Kang, Jacob John ABSTRACT We report an outbreak of ...
Read moreExtensively Drug-Resistant Salmonella typhi Infection: From Pill to Scalpel
AUTHORS Fawad Rahim, Said Amin , Mohammad Noor, Khushal Nadir Hadi, Sana Aftab ABSTRACT Water-borne infections like typhoid fever are common in the developing world. The emergence of extensively drug-resistant ...
Read moreEstimating typhoid incidence from community-based serosurveys: a multicohort study
AUTHORS Kristen Aiemjoy, Jessica C Seidman, Senjuti Saha, Sira Jam Munira, Mohammad Saiful Islam Sajib, Syed Muktadir Al Sium, Anik Sarkar, Nusrat Alam, Farha Nusrat Zahan, Md Shakiul Kabir, Dipesh ...
Read moreThe international and intercontinental spread and expansion of antimicrobial-resistant Salmonella Typhi: a genomic epidemiology study
AUTHORS Kesia Esther da Silva, PhD,, Arif Mohammad Tanmoy, MSc, Agila Kumari Pragasam, PhD, Junaid Iqbal, PhD, Mohammad Saiful Islam Sajib, MSc, Ankur Mutreja, PhD, Prof Balaji Veeraraghavan, PhD, Dipesh ...
Read moreIncidence of typhoid and paratyphoid fever in Bangladesh, Nepal, and Pakistan: results of the Surveillance for Enteric Fever in Asia Project
AUTHORS Denise O Garrett, MD, Ashley T Longley, MPH, Kristen Aiemjoy, PhD, Mohammad T Yousafzai, MPH, Caitlin Hemlock, MS, Alexander T Yu, MD, Krista Vaidya, MSc, Dipesh Tamrakar, MD, Shampa ...
Read moreEffectiveness of typhoid conjugate vaccine in Zimbabwe used in response to an outbreak among children and young adults: A matched case control study
AUTHORS Maria S Lightowler, Portia Manangazira, Fabienne Nackers, Michel Van Herp, Isaac Phiri, Kuziwa Kuwenyi, Isabella Panunzi, Daniela Garone, Farayi Marume, Andrew Tarupiwa, Eva Ferreras, Clemence Duri, Francisco J Luquero ...
Read moreWater sanitation in Karachi and its impact on health
AUTHORS Prince Kumar, Fatima Arshad, Sean Kaisser Shaheen, Arsalan Nadeem, Zarmina Islam, Mohammad Yasir Essar ABSTRACT Karachi is the largest city and premiere industrial and financial center of Pakistan yet ...
Read moreIdentification of a Host-Targeted Compound to Control Typhoid Fever
AUTHORS Ky V Hoang, Katherine Woolard 3, Ching Yang, Christian Melander, John S Gunn ABSTRACT Typhoid fever is caused primarily by the enteric microbe Salmonella enterica serovar Typhi and remains ...
Read moreSpatial-temporal and phylogenetic analyses of epidemiologic data to help understand the modes of transmission of endemic typhoid fever in Samoa
AUTHORS Michael J. Sikorski, Jianguo Ma, Tracy H. Hazen, Sachin N. Desai, Siaosi Tupua, Susana Nimarota-Brown, Michelle Sialeipata, Savitra Rambocus, Susan A. Ballard, Mary Valcanis, Robert E. Thomsen, Roy M. ...
Read moreCommunity-level interventions for mitigating the risk of waterborne diarrheal diseases: a systematic review
AUTHORS Chisala D Meki, Esper J Ncube, Kuku Voyi ABSTRACT Background: Waterborne diarrhea diseases are among the leading causes of morbidity and mortality globally. These diseases can be mitigated by ...
Read moreAntimicrobial resistance and genetic background of non-typhoidal Salmonella enterica strains isolated from human infections in São Paulo, Brazil (2000-2019)
AUTHORS Aline Parolin Calarga, Marco Tulio Pardini Gontijo, Luiz Gonzaga Paula de Almeida, Ana Tereza Ribeiro de Vasconcelos, Leandro Costa Nascimento, Taíse Marongio Cotrim de Moraes Barbosa, Thalita Mara de ...
Read morePrevention of Typhoid Fever by Existing Improvements in Household Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene, and the Use of the Vi Polysaccharide Typhoid Vaccine in Poor Urban Slums: Results from a Cluster-Randomized Trial
AUTHORS Justin Im, Farhana Khanam, Faisal Ahmmed, Deok Ryun Kim, Sophie Kang, Birkneh Tilahun Tadesse, Fahima Chowdhury, Tasnuva Ahmed, Asma Binte Aziz, Masuma Hoque, Md Taufiqul Islam, Juyeon Park, Xinxue ...
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