In 2018, a twin cholera and typhoid outbreak hit Zimbabwe’s capital claimed 69 lives and over 10,000 people were affected by the diseases, highlighting the dangers of Harare’s dilapidated water-supply ...
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Council contains typhoid, dysentery outbreak
BULAWAYO City Council (BCC) says it has contained the typhoid and dysentery outbreak that infected nearly 2 000 people and killed 13 in Luveve and surrounding suburbs recently In June ...
Read moreTyphoid fever in Nigeria not too common as believed — Commissioner
The Commissioner for Health in Anambra, Dr Vincent Okpala, says Typhoid fever in Nigeria is not as common as it has been made to be Okpala told the News Agency ...
Read moreInvestigating the meat pathway as a source of human nontyphoidal Salmonella bloodstream infections and diarrhea in East Africa
AUTHORS John A Crump, Kate M Thomas, Jackie Benschop, Matthew A Knox, David A Wilkinson, Anne C Midwinter, Peninah Munyua, John B Ochieng, Godfrey M Bigogo, Jennifer R Verani, Marc-Alain Widdowson, Gerard Prinsen, Sarah Cleaveland, Esron D Karimuribo, Rudovick R Kazwala, Blandina T Mmbaga, Emanuel S ...
Read moreSelf-reported diseases and their associated risk factors among camp-dwelling conflict-affected internally displaced populations in Nigeria
AUTHORS Winifred Ekezie, Puja Myles, Rachael L Murray, Manpreet Bains, Stephen Timmons, Catherine Pritchard ABSTRACT Background Conflict in Nigeria displaced millions of people, and some settled in camp-like locations within the country. Evidence on the ...
Read moreElimination of typhoid: Possibility or pipe dream?
AUTHORS Rachael Purcell, Andrew J Pollard ABSTRACT The elimination of typhoid would have a substantial impact on the health of millions of people living in South and Southeast Asia and ...
Read moreSalmonellosis: A food borne zoonotic and public health disease in Egypt
AUTHORS Wafaa A Abd El-Ghany ABSTRACT Salmonellosis is an important food borne disease of public health significance. Global estimates of the disease burden shows more than 20 million cases and ...
Read moreHigh relatedness of invasive multi-drug resistant non-typhoidal Salmonella genotypes among patients and asymptomatic carriers in endemic informal settlements in Kenya
AUTHORS Samuel Kariuki, Cecilia Mbae, Sandra Van Puyvelde, Robert Onsare, Susan Kavai, Celestine Wairimu, Ronald Ngetich, John Clemens, Gordon Dougan ABSTRACT Invasive Non-typhoidal Salmonella (iNTS) disease is a major public health challenge, especially in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). In ...
Read moreEffects of KMnO4 amounts on antibacterial properties of activated carbon for efficient treatment of northern Benin hospital wastewater in a fixed bed column system
AUTHORS Odilon M Nonfodji, Jacques K Fatombi, Théodora A Ahoyo, Bawa Boya, Lamine S Baba-Moussa, Taofiki Aminou ABSTRACT In this study, the wastewater from the Departmental Hospital Center of Atacora in Benin was characterized and ...
Read moreEvasion of MAIT cell recognition by the African Salmonella Typhimurium ST313 pathovar that causes invasive disease
AUTHORS Lorena Preciado-Llanes, Anna Aulicino, Rocío Canals, Patrick J Moynihan, Xiaojun Zhu, Ndaru Jambo, Tonney S Nyirenda, Innocent Kadwala, Ana Sousa Gerós, Siân V Owen, Kondwani C Jambo, Benjamin Kumwenda, Natacha Veerapen, Gurdyal S Besra, Melita A Gordon, Jay C ...
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