At least 30 cases of typhoid fever have reportedly been detected in Tamen and Boasimla areas in Kamle district due to contamination of drinking water sources, the Ziro (Lower Subansiri)-based ...
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Expansion of Salmonella Typhi clonal lineages with ampicillin resistance and reduced ciprofloxacin susceptibility in Eastern China
AUTHORS Dingfeng Lv, Danyang Zhang, Qifa Song ABSTRACT This study was aimed to investigate the dynamics of antimicrobial resistance expansion among different lineages and isolates of S. Typhi. The S. ...
Read moreSindh govt to launch anti-typhoid vaccination drive
For the very first time in its history, the Sindh government has decided to launch an anti-typhoid vaccination drive across the province, including Karachi. Typhoid-conjugated vaccine (TCV) will be included ...
Read more18 typhoid fever cases in 3 weeks
The individuals developed symptoms of the bacterial infection between July 13 and Aug 4. The Ministry Of Health and Singapore Food Agency said that they are interviewing affected individuals to ...
Read moreEpidemiological Trend of Typhoid and Paratyphoid Fevers in Zhejiang Province, China from 1953 to 2014
AUTHORS Hua Gu, Congcong Yan, Zhenggang Jiang, Xiuyang Li, Enfu Chen, Jianmin Jiang, Qingwu Jiang, Yibiao Zhou ABSTRACT The incidences of typhoid and paratyphoid remain high and these diseases still pose a public health ...
Read moreModelling the cost-effectiveness of a rapid diagnostic test (IgMFA) for uncomplicated typhoid fever in Cambodia
AUTHORS Mari Kajiwara Saito, Christopher M. Parry, Shunmay Yeung ABSTRACT Typhoid fever is a common cause of fever in Cambodian children but diagnosis and treatment are usually presumptive owing to ...
Read moreHyderabad: In 2 months, 16,000 down with diarrhoea, 1,300 contract typhoid
Enteric fevers, especially typhoid, are on the rise in Hyderabad as also are diarrhoea and Hepatitis A. In the last two months, 1,301 enteric fever cases have been reported in ...
Read moreEffect of in-line drinking water chlorination at the point of collection on child diarrhoea in urban Bangladesh: a double-blind, cluster-randomised controlled trial
AUTHORS Amy J Pickering, Yoshika Crider, Sonia Sultana, Jenna Swarthout, Frederick GB Goddard, Syed Anjerul Islam, Shreyan Sen, Raga Ayyagari, Stephen P Luby ABSTRACT Previous blinded trials of household water treatment interventions in ...
Read moreAutomatically chlorinating water cuts child diarrhoea by almost a quarter in urban Bangladesh
A novel water treatment device that delivers chlorine automatically via public taps without the need for electricity, reduced child diarrhoea by 23% compared with controls (156 cases out of 2,073 ...
Read moreWater, food-borne infections on the rise in Potohar region
Rawalpindi: The incidences of water and food-borne diseases including gastroenteritis, viral hepatitis (A&E), typhoid and paratyphoid fever and dysentery along with a number of other monsoon related health threats are ...
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