AUTHORS Mohamed Ali Ali, Okafor Chukwuma James, Ahmed Abade Mohamed, Agricola Joachim, Marcelina Mubi, Oghenekaro Omodior ABSTRACT Background: Fever of unknown origin (FUO) remains an important public health problem. With malaria transmission declining in ...
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Pathogenic signature of invasive non-typhoidal Salmonella in Africa: implications for vaccine development
AUTHORS Giulia Piccini, Emanuele Montomoli ABSTRACT Invasive non-typhoidal Salmonella (iNTS) infections are a leading cause of bacteremia in Sub-Saharan Africa (sSA), thereby representing a major public health threat. Salmonella Typhimurium clade ...
Read moreEarly Insights From Clinical Trials of Typhoid Conjugate Vaccine
AUTHORS Kathleen M Neuzil, Buddha Basnyat, John D Clemens, Melita A Gordon, Priyanka D Patel, Andrew J Pollard, Mila Shakya, Firdausi Qadri ABSTRACT Clinical trials of typhoid conjugate vaccine (TCV) ...
Read moreSurveillance for Invasive Salmonella Disease in Bamako, Mali, From 2002 to 2018
AUTHORS William L Still, Milagritos D Tapia, Sharon M Tennant, Mamadou Sylla, Aliou Touré, Henry Badji, Adama Mamby Keita, Samba O Sow, Myron M Levine, Karen L Kotloff ABSTRACT Background ...
Read moreResearch on Invasive Nontyphoidal Salmonella Disease and Developments Towards Better Understanding of Epidemiology, Management, and Control Strategies
AUTHORS Samuel Kariuki, Ellis Owusu-Dabo ABSTRACT During the 11th International Conference on Typhoid and Other Invasive Salmonelloses held in Hanoi, Vietnam, a number of papers were presented on the burden ...
Read moreMethodological Considerations for Cost of Illness Studies of Enteric Fever
AUTHORS Nelly Mejia, Enusa Ramani, Sarah W Pallas, Dayoung Song, Taiwo Abimbola, Vittal Mogasale ABSTRACT This article presents a selection of practical issues, questions, and tradeoffs in methodological choices to ...
Read moreThe Surveillance for Enteric Fever in Asia Project (SEAP), Severe Typhoid Fever Surveillance in Africa (SETA), Surveillance of Enteric Fever in India (SEFI), and Strategic Typhoid Alliance Across Africa and Asia (STRATAA) Population-based Enteric Fever Studies: A Review of Methodological Similarities and Differences
AUTHORS Megan E Carey, William R MacWright, Justin Im, James E Meiring, Malick M Gibani, Se Eun Park, Ashley Longley, Hyon Jin Jeon, Caitlin Hemlock, Alexander T Yu, Abdramane Soura, ...
Read moreIntestinal Perforations Associated With a High Mortality and Frequent Complications During an Epidemic of Multidrug-resistant Typhoid Fever in Blantyre, Malawi
AUTHORS Franziska Olgemoeller, Jonathan J Waluza, Dalitso Zeka, Jillian S Gauld, Peter J Diggle, Jonathan M Read, Thomas Edwards, Chisomo L Msefula, Angeziwa Chirambo, Melita A Gordon, Emma Thomson, Robert ...
Read moreZimbabwe: Typhoid Outbreak in Harare’s Sunningdale Suburb
Harare’s Sunningdale suburb has been hit by a typhoid outbreak after recording nine cases The cases were confirmed by Ward 10 Councillor Hammy Madzingira who attributed the outbreak to continuous ...
Read moreInvasive non-typhoidal Salmonella infections in sub-Saharan Africa: a systematic review on antimicrobial resistance and treatment
AUTHORS Bieke Tack, Jolien Vanaenrode, Jan Y Verbakel, Jaan Toelen, Jan Jacobs ABSTRACT Background: Non-typhoidal Salmonella (NTS) are a frequent cause of invasive infections in sub-Saharan Africa. They are frequently multidrug resistant (co-resistant to ...
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