AUTHORS Kinley Wangdi, Kaushalya Kasturiaratchi, Susana Vaz Nery, Colleen L. Lau, Darren J. Gray and Archie C. A. Clements ABSTRACT Acute undifferentiated febrile illness (AUFI) is caused by a multitude of diverse pathogens, with significant morbidity and mortality ...
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Azithromycin resistance mechanisms in typhoidal salmonellae in India: A 25 years analysis
AUTHORS Priyanka Sharma, Bhavana Kumari, Sushila Dahiya, Umay Kulsum, Sambuddha Kumar, Neelam Manral, Sangeeta Pandey, Punit Kaur, Seema Sood, Bimal Kumar Das, Arti Kapil ABSTRACT Azithromycin has been in use as an alternate treatment option for enteric fever even when ...
Read moreAnalysis of isolates from Bangladesh highlights multiple ways to carry resistance genes in Salmonella Typhi
AUTHORS Nicholas Costa Barroso Lima, Arif M. Tanmoy, Emilie Westeel, Luiz Gonzaga Paula de Almeida, Alain Rajoharison, Maksuda Islam, Hubert P. Endtz, Samir K. Saha, Ana Tereza Ribeiro de Vasconcelos, and Florence Komurian-Pradel ABSTRACT Typhoid fever, caused by Salmonella Typhi, follows a fecal-oral transmission route and is a major ...
Read moreRainproof your health
After weeks of sweltering heat, the city finally received it’s first monsoon showers this week, signaling the onset of the season in the city. K. S. Hosalikar, Director General of ...
Read moreMalir locality suffers from outbreak of extensively drug resistant typhoid: Drug resistant typhoid claims two lives in Karachi
Health authorities are planning to launch a mass vaccination drive against typhoid fever in Karachi after two children died due to Extensively Drug Resistant (XDR) Typhoid in Sheedi Goth area ...
Read moreThe inappropriate use of antibiotics in hospitalized dengue virus-infected children with presumed concurrent bacterial infection in teaching and private hospitals in Bandung, Indonesia
AUTHORS Riyadi Adrizain, Djatnika Setiabudi, and Alex Chairulfatah ABSTRACT Dengue virus infection (DVI) among children is a leading cause of hospitalization in endemic areas. Hospitalized patients are at risk of ...
Read moreAntimicrobial Susceptibility Patterns of Salmonella Species in Southern Pakistan
AUTHORS Ghulam Shabbir Laghari, Zahid Hussain, Syed Zohaib Maroof Hussain, Haresh Kumar, Syed Mohammad Mazhar Uddin, and Aatera Haq ABSTRACT Typhoid fever is a major infectious disease among the pediatric ...
Read moreMolecular mechanisms of antimicrobial resistance and phylogenetic relationships of Salmonella enterica isolates from febrile patients in Yangon, Myanmar
AUTHORS Khine Mar Oo, Tin Ohn Myat, Wah Win Htike, Ambarish Biswas, Rachel F Hannaway, David R Murdoch, John A Crump, James E Ussher ABSTRACT Enteric fever is common in southeast ...
Read moreA systematic review of antimicrobial resistance of typhoidal Salmonella in India
AUTHORS Carl D. Britto, Jacob John, Valsan P. Verghese, and Andrew J. Pollard ABSTRACT The temporal trends in the development of antimicrobial resistance (AMR) among Salmonella Typhi and Salmonella Paratyphi in India have not ...
Read moreCurrent antibiotic use in the treatment of enteric fever in children
AUTHORS Sushila Dahiya, Rooma Malik, Priyanka Sharma, Archana Sashi, Rakesh Lodha, Sushil Kumar Kabra, Seema Sood, Bimal Kumar Das, Kamini Walia, V.C. Ohri, and Arti Kapil ABSTRACT Antimicrobial resistance is ...
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